An invitation to a party

Listen to some phone messages with directions to practise and improve your listening skills.

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Transcript

Automated message: You have two new messages. Message number one, received today at 3.45 p.m.

Hi, it's me. How's it going? I guess you're at work and you don't have your phone on, right? First of all, thank you, THANK YOU for the birthday card and message. I received it this morning. That's so nice of you. I'm organising a little party for my birthday. It's nothing very big – only a few of my best and closest friends. That means you too! We're going to have it at my cousin's house. She lives in the countryside in a nice big house with a swimming pool. I'd love to see you there. It's going to be this Friday. I'll send you the instructions on how to get there later, OK?

Anyway, have fun at work. Don't work too hard, OK? Talk soon.

Automated message: You have two new messages. Message number two, received today at 5.15 p.m.

Aw, you're still not answering your phone! OK, here are the instructions to get to my cousin's house for the party. Are you going to take your car? If you take the car, drive straight on Forest Road until you get to the motorway. Drive past Brownsville and take exit 13A. That's 13A. You drive down the road there and turn left. It's the first big house on the right. OK? If you're taking a bus, you can get the number 80 to Brownsville. Call me when you get there and somebody can pick you up in a car. I can't wait. This is going to be so great!

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Discussion

Is it easy to get lost in your town? Have you ever given directions to a visitor?

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Pre-intermediate: A2

I think we dont really need the exact instructions to get to the place we are going to. Because nowadays, we have already had the gps-based application, such as gmaps, waze, and something like that which are able to get us to our destination. Even when it comes to remote area.

I'm absolutely with no sense of direction. So I made up my mind to follow someone who has sense of geography, although I sometimes annoy others insisting a wong direction with certainty which has no reason! ⇦troublesome sort, isn't it?!

I never got lost in my town . And sometimes I give directions to a visitors if I could .

My city isn't very big, but you can get lost if you,ve never been here earliar. Sometimes I've given directions to different places.

Yes. I often give directions to visitors. My hometown is a junction where three main roads join from the north, west and central part of the country. Although there is the new technology, many people get ask for directions here.

Yes. I do that once, they lost in Hanoi and has no internet

Isn't difficult to find streets in my town, because I live in a little city . But sometimes it have happened someone has troubled for reaching my house, because that stays in a hide street.

fantacitic

once I gave direction to a stranger when I was walking in the road,first the stranger ask me a address and I told him take the left and go straight.it's easy to guide them but sometimes I order food in online and the delivery guy ask my address in phone I guide him but again he ask and then he comes.

Dear Team, referring to the Task 1,I think that both messages contain descriptions (a nice big house with a swimming pool-It's the first big house on the right),i.e.the view and location of the house.Am I right or not. Thanks again.

Hello nikoslado

I suppose so, but the first message is more descriptive, which is why the correct answer is Message 1.

All the best

Kirk

The LearnEnglish Team

My hometown is the countryside so easy to get lost if you first time to go there. because a lot of small roads, houses don't have the name, the direction not clearly on map ect. Yes, I had given them direction or pick them up at the big road. In another way, If I'm a visitor I so excited to learn how to find direction. You need to ask the local people, find the signal, understanding the culture the place you want to go ... all the way to get there. Something new you can explore. Sometimes if get lost is not a big problem, right? just my opinion.

As a matter of fact, it is not very easy to get lost in the location where is near my house or be familiar to me. If someone asks me the direction, I will use Apple map to show them the correct information for help. By the way, it is very tough to give the 100 percentage correct direction to people.

now, with GPS we can't lost on the way !

I think that my town is not big enough to lost your instructions, but if that happend, you should ask someone even gide you where you want. In addation , in my town , many of streets and roads are random.

I think my town is not big enough, but a visitor who don't know it, they could be lost because there are a lot of small street that take you to different places. Yes, it is common for we can help to visitors, giving directions on how to get to a streets, avenues, squares, etc.

yes, it is. because Tehran is very big and despite a lot of directions in the city if you don't know the directions well. So certainly you get lost. No, I haven't.

If you get lost in my town you’ll find someone who shows you the direction and propose to drive you to your place. I want to share with you my misadventure; last holidays my husband and me did a touristic circuit in Germany . We leave the Frankfurt airport we took a rental car and went to Erfurt ( the fist town to visite). The motorway is large and germen people respected the Highway Code it was easy to drive on it and we enjoyed the travel and the landscape intel arrived at night to the exit to the town. Suddenly there was no GPS no internet and we get lost in the city we tried to ask for help to the only person we saw, it was unsuccessful. Finally my husband went into a restaurant and asked someone to call a taxi for us. The taxi arrived we showed him the address and we followed him intel the hotel.

very fast

my town is small so you cannot lose in it , it has just one main street . yes i gave directions to my friends when they visited me in my house

It's a good for me. Thank you for free giving to learn.

Just thank you for the material

Whenever I'm asked to givie directions by visitors, I smile inside, saying "How unlucky you are!"...cuz I'm a wrong person to ask directions!! ˘˘̥( ᵒ̴̶̷̥́ _ᵒ̴̶̷̣̥̀ )

I live in Shiraz, Iran. It's a big city and easy to get lost, but Google map and Waze make routing easy.

My town has one hundred thirty thousand inhabitants: it's an average town; moreover its map is organized geometrically, the streets intersect each other. Therefore is it unlikely to get lost; but it every now and then happens that some visitors ask me directions.

Thank for this lesson.

We all enjoyed a map task the other day. on your left ◆＼(´-`) / ＼(´-`)／◇ on your right...!

Sometimes i gave directions to visitors but it is difficult to get lost in my town))

I'd like to go to the party but I can't go to Without the invite me

I can't find the worrkup of section, please help me. Thanks so much!

Hello AnNguyen We are working hard to create worksheets in PDF format for all of our new Skills pages, but I'm afraid it's going to take a use a few more weeks to finish them all. Please check again soon and you should find it here. Thanks for your patience! All the best Kirk The LearnEnglish Team

Hello there I live in Hamedan . There are six main streets at the city center. The design and map of this field was previously prepared and implemented by the German architect, Karl Friesch. Its so interesting and amazing city map .yes its so easy to get lost in my city, especially when you go shopping at the traditional bazaar of the city center , every six streets are along side and themain squre is circular around an axis. when you go into the bazaar and u want to go outside you hardly know which street you reach to. I work at hotel so I often give directions to travelers. many thanks . best regards.

I read your all comments. I've been improving my English skills through this web site, moreover, your comments is helpful as well.

I'm enjoying a lot even though it's quite tough for me.

I dont think this excercise match with a elementary level, I found it difficult.

Hello analia martinez, Thank you for the feedback. The information we give about level is a guide for our users and is obviously only an estimate. It's very helpful for us to hear users' impressions like this. ~ Peter The LearnEnglish Team

No it is not easy to lost in my town because people can help me they can tell me the directions to go back home, I was tell the visitor the direction

With Waze, no wrong directions :-)

exactly. it's useful

It was easy

I like this page for learn English

Er... I think 'yes', I have a bad sense of direction, though! ᔪ(°ᐤ°)

This was interesting exercise.

VERY GOOD

for me it is so difficult to get or given directions