LinguaA ticket for the birthday trip
Read the passage, then listen to it. Answer ten questions about what you read or heard. You can return to the passage while answering.
Today is Sunday. The date is 3 January. Yesterday: Saturday. Tomorrow is Monday, 4 January: my birthday! I'm thirteen years old tomorrow. My sister is twenty-five. Our trip to the science museum is a birthday present.
On our tickets: “Monday. 9 a.m.”
“What time is the bus?”
“Eight o'clock. At half past seven, breakfast. At quarter to eight, the bus stop.”
The museum has one hundred small robots and thirty big robots.
“How many big robots?”
“Thirty, not thirteen!”
On the phone with the ticket desk:
“How much is it?”
“The price is forty euros for two adults. Fifty euros for a family.”
“And a child?”
“Ten euros.”
A sign: “One euro = one hundred cents”. Another sign: “A robot can count to a thousand!” There is a toy dollar on the robot's hand. The robot counts: “Zero, one, two...”
The museum café is open in the morning and afternoon. Our lunch is at quarter past one, 1:15 p.m. The museum closes at five o'clock in the evening. At night, it is closed.
A poster: “Spring exhibition: March. Summer exhibition: August.”
“Another trip this year?” my sister asks.
“Yes, in August!”
The museum phone number is 200 55 30. The guide says: “Two, oh, oh, double five, three, zero.” My sister writes it down. Tomorrow: robots!
Words in this lesson
| Word | Meaning | Example |
|---|---|---|
| zero | zero | The answer is zero. |
| thirteen | thirteen | My sister is thirteen. |
| thirty | thirty | There are thirty chairs here. |
| forty | forty | My father is forty years old. |
| fifty | fifty | The class has fifty students. |
| one hundred | one hundred | One hundred is a big number. |
| years old | years old | I'm twenty years old. |
| phone number | phone number | What is your phone number? |
| How many | How many | How many books do you have? |
| twenty-five | twenty-five | I'm twenty-five. |
| o'clock | o'clock | The film starts at six o'clock. |
| half past | half past | We eat lunch at half past twelve. |
| quarter past | quarter past | It's quarter past four now. |
| quarter to | quarter to | The train leaves at quarter to nine. |
| a.m. | a.m. | I get up at 7:00 a.m. |
| p.m. | p.m. | She gets home at 6:00 p.m. |
| morning | morning | I study English in the morning. |
| afternoon | afternoon | He works in the afternoon. |
| evening | evening | We watch TV in the evening. |
| night | night | I go to bed at night. |
| Monday | Monday | We have a meeting on Monday. |
| Sunday | Sunday | I relax on Sunday. |
| January | January | It is very cold in January. |
| August | August | They go on holiday in August. |
| spring | spring | The flowers are beautiful in spring. |
| today | today | Today is a busy day. |
| tomorrow | tomorrow | My exam is tomorrow. |
| yesterday | yesterday | Yesterday was fun. |
| birthday | birthday | My birthday is in November. |
| date | date | What date is it today? |
| thirty | thirty | The class has thirty students. |
| How many...? | How many...? | How many chairs are there? |
| o'clock | o'clock | It is six o'clock. |
| half past | half past | The film starts at half past seven. |
| quarter to | quarter to | It is quarter to ten. |
| a.m. | a.m. | I get up at 7 a.m. |
| p.m. | p.m. | We eat dinner at 8 p.m. |
| Monday | Monday | I work on Monday. |
| January | January | My birthday is in January. |
| a thousand | a thousand | The city is a thousand years old. |
| dollar | dollar | It is ten dollars. |
| euro | euro | The coffee is three euros. |
| cent | cent | One euro is one hundred cents. |
| price | price | The price is very good. |
| How much is it? | How much is it? | How much is it? – Two euros. |
| year | year | Happy New Year! |
| double | double | The last numbers are double seven. |
| oh | oh | For zero, say oh. |
Exercises
This lesson has 10 exercises in the app:
- multiple choice: 10
Try the first one
Check this statement against the passage: «The birthday is on Sunday.»
The answer, the other exercises, the audio and your progress are in the app – free at A0 and A1.