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A
Park & ride
Point out that & means 
and
. Explain that students should avoid 
using it in their own writing.
1
Before students do the exercise, ask if anyone has ever been 
abroad in a car. What are the good and bad points about 
travelling abroad by car?
If necessary, use a simple drawing on the board to explain the 
meaning of 
ring road
. Ask students to do the exercise.
2
Students can do this exercise in pairs. They can either work 
together to work out the order of the directions, or they can 
work on their own and then compare answers.
Explain or elicit that M stands for 
motorway
. Also explain 
that A-roads (A418, A34) are more important – and better 
– roads than B-roads (B480, B4044).
3–4
Students can do these exercises in pairs.
Learning tip
Emphasize the point that students should only use a dictionary 
to check their guesses. Explain that continually looking up 
words in a dictionary takes a lot of time, some of the words are 
unimportant in terms of the exercise the student is doing, and 
that using a dictionary disrupts reading the text itself.
5–7
Students can do these exercises in pairs. Check answers.
Extra practice
If you are teaching a multilingual group in an English-speaking 
environment, students could also research Park & Ride in the 
town / city in which they are studying.
B
Have you got any change?
Write the question on the board. Point to the word 
change
. 
Explain to the class that the noun 
change
can have many 
different meanings. Ask students what it means in this question. 
If someone has a learner’s dictionary (such as 
Cambridge 
Essential English Dictionary
), ask this person to look up 
change
in the dictionary and choose the correct meaning in the context 
of this unit.