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Ashlie: Hi. Can I have a return ticket, please?
Ticket Seller: Yes, of course you can.
Ashlie: Brilliant. How much is that?
Ticket Seller: Twenty-five pounds, please.
Ashlie: Great. Thank you. Twenty-five. And when is the next train?
Ticket Seller: Four o’clock.
Ashlie: Four p.m. Thank you very much.
Ticket Seller: Thank you.
Ashlie: This is the Snowdon Mountain Railway. Now, this train goes all the way from here, up to the top of the mountain. It’s a steam train so it is quite slow but I’m sure I’ll get to the top before Stephen. Now, I must take some photos.
Train Driver: Yeah – that looks good – nice one! OK then?
Ashlie: Thank you. That’s lovely. Are you the train driver?
Train Driver: Yes, I drive these locomotives and I’ve done so for about 29 years now.
Ashlie: So how long does it take to get to the top?
Train Driver: Just under an hour.
Ashlie: Under an hour? It must be pretty high then. How high is it?
Train Driver: It's about 1000 metres and it is the highest mountain in England and Wales. And it gets very cold there as well, so if I were you, I’d wear something a little warmer!
Ashlie: Don’t worry, I've got a big coat.
Train Man: That’s good.
Ashlie: Thank you.
Train Man: You’re welcome, bye.
Ashlie: What an amazing train!
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Stephen: Ashlie! What are you doing here? How did you get here?
Ashlie: Oh, hiya Stephen. What an amazing place. You know, it’s a shame about the view though.
Stephen: What an amazing place? How did you get here?
Ashlie: Well, I got the train, of course. You know, it’s much easier than cycling.
Stephen: You got the train!? You mean to say while I’ve been riding up the mountain all afternoon, you….
Ashlie: Oh, and I also got a spa treatment. Look, aren’t they lovely?
Stephen: You’re unbelievable!
Ashlie: You look exhausted, Stephen. Come on, shall we go and get a coffee or a sandwich or something?
Stephen: A sandwich? You’re on the top of a mountain! It isn’t some kind of High Street, you know.
Ashlie: Follow me.
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Stephen: Just what we needed; a café at the top of the mountain.
Ashlie: OK, what are you having, Stephen?
Stephen: Hmm. I’ll have a coffee and one of these, a cheese sandwich.
Ashlie: I think I’ll have the soup and I’ll have a hot chocolate.
Waiter: Hi there. Can I take your order, please?
Ashlie: Yes please, I’ll have a soup and a hot chocolate and he’ll have a cheese sandwich and a coffee, please.
Waiter: Can I get you anything else?
Stephen: Yes, I was just wondering – it must be fun working here on the mountain. But how do you get to work everyday – you don’t cycle, do you?
Waiter: No, we don’t. There’s an early train, a special train for all the staff who need to come up every morning.
Stephen: And what happens when the weather gets really bad? Do you ever get stuck up here?
Waiter: We do, we do get stuck sometimes. If the weather turns really bad, there’s accommodation for the staff to stay overnight.
Stephen: Sounds cosy!
Waiter: Very cosy indeed. I’ll just get your order for you now.
Ashlie: Great, thank you very much. See, you should have got the train.
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Stephen: Right. Time to make a move. It should be easier going downhill.
Ashlie: It’s easy for me. I’m going to catch the last train home. In fact, I wonder what time the last train is…
Stephen: Ashlie, is it a small red and green train? Like that one?
Ashlie: Oh, no! Wait! Ah, Stephen I’ve missed the last train!
Stephen: Come on Ash, jump on. I'll give you a lift! You on?
Ashlie: Not too fast!
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Hi The LearnEnglish Team
Please explain to me the following sentence:
Stephen: Come on Ash, jump on. I'll give you a lift! You on?
what does "i'll give you a lift! You on?" means?
Thanks
Hello Tuấn31195,
You can find 'jump on' and 'lift' in the Cambridge Dictionary (follow the links). 'You on?' is an abbreviated form of '(Are) you on?' Stephen is offering to take Ashlie down the mountain on his bike!
All the best,
Kirk
The LearnEnglish Team
Good evening.
We could have a long long chat about mountains,they are my favorite.I like to visit them during the winter when the snow cover all the land and you can play with snowballs and can enjoy all the sports game during this season,my favorite one is the sleigh.
But I like as well in the summer when you can go hiking in the time when in the city's very hot and you can go to the mountain just to take some fresh air and relax.
in my country we we have a lot of mountains most of them they are really known in Europe I think the highest top of the mountain in my country is named OMU.
This name comes from a big stone, on the top there is a big rock that has a shape that looks really like a face of a human, and OMU in my language means person.
Usually I'm going to the mountain using a car or train but most of the time I prefer the train but the train is not like here, it didn't go up to the top. Same of the mountains have cable car which is really really good but most of the time if you want to get to the top of the mountain you have to go hiking and go walk you can go cycling because he's very steep.
Hello The English Team,
Why does Ashlie say "It’s a shame about the view though" whereas in the previous sentence she said "What an amazing place"? Were there anything wrong with the view? These two sentences are quite confusing to me.
Thank you so much.
Hello Abby Nguyen,
Ashlie makes the comment because there is no view because of the mist which is obscuring it.
Best wishes,
Peter
The LearnEnglish Team
Excuse me. I don't understand the meaning of Stephen in this phrase '' You’re on the top of a mountain! It isn't some kind of High Street, you know.''. He wants to unfair, doesn't he ????
Hello Tuan Hung,
Ashlie suggests that they get a coffee and Stephen does not think that this is very realistic, so he is being a little bit sarcastic in his reply, pointing out that it's not so easy to get a coffee on a mountain. Of course, he is wrong and Ashlie is right, because there is a cafe!
Best wishes,
Peter
The LearnEnglish Team
Thanks Peter M, I got it
The train driver said i've done so for about 29 years now..can he say in this way-'I,ve been doing this for 29 years' and in another case can he say 'if were you i would have worn something warmer'
what did ashlie mean by 'it's a shame about the view though'?
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