Transport announcements

Transport announcements

Listen to some transport announcements to practise and improve your listening skills.

Do the preparation task first. Then listen to the audio and do the exercises.

Preparation

Transcript

A

The next train to arrive at Platform 2 is the 12.20 to Bristol Temple Meads, calling at Reading, Oxford and Bristol Parkway. Platform 2 for the 12.20 to Bristol. First class is in the rear carriage.


B

This is a platform announcement for passengers for the 12.20 service to Bristol Temple Meads. This train is delayed by approximately 8 minutes. The train will now depart from Platform 9. Passengers for the 12.20 train to Bristol, please make your way to Platform 9.


C

Passengers for Flight EB380 to Paris please make your way to Gate 13 for boarding. Gate 13 for flight EB380 to Paris. Please have your passports and boarding passes ready. Your flight is ready to board.


D

This is a London Underground service to Liverpool Street. The next station is Liverpool Street. Upon arrival, the first set of doors will not open. Customers in the first carriage, please move towards the rear doors to leave the train. The next station is Liverpool Street. Change here for Central Line, Circle Line, Hammersmith & City Line and Metropolitan Line and Main Line Suburban rail services. Please mind the gap between the train and the platform. This train terminates at Redbridge.

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Submitted by amal.araia on Sat, 30/05/2020 - 22:38

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I love travelling, but I haven't got a chance to travel as much as I wanted to, but same times I travel from Khartoum to same cities oround it inside Sudan by a big buses.

Submitted by Milena Nikolova on Wed, 20/05/2020 - 06:01

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Last year i traveled very often in my country and abroud. I travel ususlly by bus and by car. This year because we have a carrantine for COVID 19 i don't travel anywhere.

Submitted by Fatemeh.Najafzadeh on Tue, 19/05/2020 - 01:55

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In my country I usually travel by train, because In my opinion it’s a safe transport. At the moment, I’m living in Ireland and I travel to my country by airplane about once a year.

Submitted by mouna99 on Mon, 18/05/2020 - 16:35

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I have never travled by plan or train, I would like to.

Submitted by Mann Mann on Tue, 12/05/2020 - 05:55

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I don’t rarely take a trip by train or plane. I only used by express or motor bike. But i remember that i went to Singapore by plane since 2018.It is fantastic. That is my very first time taking trip by plane.
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Submitted by Peter M. on Tue, 12/05/2020 - 07:54

In reply to by BRIGITTE49124

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Hello BRIGITTE49124,

Trains are made up of a number of carriages. The rear carriage is the last one – the one at the back.

 

Peter

The LearnEnglish Team

Submitted by Parisa on Thu, 23/04/2020 - 08:08

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The next train to arrive at Platform 2 is the 12.20 to Bristol Temple Meads, ""calling at Reading,""" what does this sentence mean????

Hello Parisa

In the context of travelling by train, 'to call at' means 'to stop in'. 'to call' can mean 'to visit' -- see the sixth entry (in purple) in the Cambridge Dictionary entry. 

All the best

Kirk

The LearnEnglish Team