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Ask about schedules

Vocabulary & Expressions Grammar Items

track How many times …? Frequency with ordinal and cardinal numbers:
passenger to leave for (city) once, twice, three times (a day), every (ten
platform to leave from (track 2) minutes).
(three) times a (day) to depart (for) Time expressions (review): half past …, quarter
after …, quarter past …, quarter to …, five after …,
once to arrive five past …, ten to …
twice to arrive in (city) Simple present with schedules. For example: The
to run (every ten to arrive on (track 3) train to Boston runs every two hours.
minutes) to arrive from (city)
How often …?

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Grammar Ask about schedules

They go to Paris twice a year

Lisa goes for a walk every day after lunch.

→ She goes for a walk once a day.
The Reeds go to Paris every year in May and October.
→ They go to Paris twice a year.
I bike to work on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays.
→ I bike to work three times a week.

– How often do you go on business trips? – How many times a year do you go on vacation?
– Two or three times a year. – We go twice a year.
   
– How often do you take the train? – How often does the number 17 bus run?
– I take the train every week. – It runs every thirty minutes.

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How often do you take the subway?

Example: how often / take a bus

a. How often do you take a bus? b. I take a bus three times a week.
1. how often / go on vacation

2. how many times a year / go on trips

3. how many times a day / check email

4. how often / miss your bus

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Vocabulary & Expressions Ask about schedules

Our flight leaves at a quarter to one

It’s ten after one. It’s twenty to four. It’s ten ten. It’s just after two.

It’s quarter past eight. It’s quarter to two. It’s half past two.(US)
It’s half two.(UK)

Tip! past   = after

10:10 = ten after ten = ten past ten = ten ten

What time is it?

  5:01
12:15

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14:35
  4:30
23:05
  6:40
What time does the train leave?

The train to New York leaves at 12:45. The train from Boston arrives at 12:48.
The train leaves for New York at 12:45. The train arrives from Boston at 12:48.
The New York train leaves from track 8. The Boston train arrives on track 2.
What time does the train for Baltimore leave? What time does the train from Miami arrive?

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Performance Ask about schedules

Ask about train schedules at the train station.

Notes:

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Online Practice – Credits Ask about schedules

  ONLINE PRACTICE 

Unit Photo Credits (listed from beginning-to-end, left-to-right English 2

within this unit): Thomas Stefflbauer, Berlitz, Berlitz, Berlitz, ©2018 Berlitz Languages, Inc. All rights reserved.
Berlitz, Berlitz, Berlitz, Berlitz, Berlitz, iStockphoto

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