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Asking The Way Useful Phrases

The document provides useful phrases for asking for directions in English. It includes questions to ask for directions to locations like "How can I get to...", questions about distances and locations of landmarks like "Is it far from here?" and directions that can be given in response like "Go through the...into...Street. Turn left past the Town Hall." It also includes exercises to match questions and responses and rearrange sentences into dialogues asking for and receiving directions.

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Asking The Way Useful Phrases

The document provides useful phrases for asking for directions in English. It includes questions to ask for directions to locations like "How can I get to...", questions about distances and locations of landmarks like "Is it far from here?" and directions that can be given in response like "Go through the...into...Street. Turn left past the Town Hall." It also includes exercises to match questions and responses and rearrange sentences into dialogues asking for and receiving directions.

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ASKING THE WAY USEFUL PHRASES

Excuse me. How can I get to..? Im sorry, I dont know. Im a stranger here myself. Thank you anyway. Go through the .into .Street. Turn left past the Town Hall. Thats the biggest/smallest building on the left. Youll see post office in front of you. You cant miss it. Where is the entrance? Is it far from here? Just a few minutes on foot.

Excuse me. Where is the bus stop? Is there a post office near here? Over there, near the police station. The chemists is on the right. The bank is on the left. Between the post office and the cafe. In front of the shopping centre. Behind the taxi rank. Next to the car park. Excuse me, can you tell me the way to?

Go along Oxford Street. Go straight on. Turn right / turn left. Turn right at the traffic lights. Turn left at the roundabout. Take the second turning on the right. First on the right. Its the second street on the left. Go down the street. / Go up the street. 10 minutes by car/on foot. 5 minutes walk. Its no distance at all.

EXERCISES: Match the halves to make sentences


1 Excuse me. How ..
2 Is it far .. 3 Show me .. 4 How can ..

I get there?
the bus stop? from here? can I get to the centre?

5 Excuse me. Where is ..


6 Is the underground..

near here?
on the map, please.

Rearrange the sentences to make the dialogues


A. ..Certainly. Take the first street on the left, then the second on the right. ..First on the left, second on the right... ..Can you tell me the way to the post office, please? ..That's right. ..Excuse me! ..Thanks a lot. ..Yes?

B. ..Thank you very much ..Is it far from here? ..Go down this road, then take the second street on the left. ..Oh, no. It's just five minutes' walk. . ..Excuse me. How can I get to the railway station, please?

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