Name: Talking about travel: 🚴🚗🚆 Real Easy English
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In this podcast, we have real conversations in Easy English to help you learn.

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We talked about holidays in another episode, but

today we'll talk about everyday travel and compare our journeys to work.

So, Neil, what is your journey to work like?

Well, because we live in London and it's a big city, it's quite long, but

I get a bus to a tube stop, the Tube is the underground train.

And then I get the Tube to near the BBC and then I walk nice.

I don't like using the Tube, the underground train, because there's so many people on it.

I prefer to get some fresh air in the morning.

Well, my walk starts with walking along some streets towards a park and then I walk across a park and then I walk through some more streets because there is a little bit of time between.

Between the park and the office and then I arrive at the office.

I use it sometimes when there's an emergency, like if it's raining or if I don't have time.

But if I have time, I like to walk to work.

My journey takes me one hour if I walk and 30 minutes if I take the tube.

My journey takes at least an hour, sometimes more.

And Neil, you have to get a bus and a train.

sometimes there's traffic jams on the roads and so the bus can take a long time, but

once I get onto the Tube, it's usually okay as I travel across London.

Oh, Neil, can you explain what we mean by traffic jam?

So a traffic jam is when there are too many cars and buses on the road and so the traffic can't move very quickly or can't move at all.

Are there times of the day when there are more traffic jams?

Rush hour is when most people are going to work.

So the roads are busier and also if it's the school run, school run time.

So lots of people on the roads taking their kids to school then the bus journey takes a long time.

Okay, so that's in the morning and in the afternoons.

Well, Georgie, your journey to work sounds nicer than mine.

Let's recap the words we learned during the conversation we had towards travelling in the direction of across.

Rush hour, a time when a lot of people are moving around the city, usually for work or school.

And an expression for something I hate, traffic jam, which we use to talk about a big delay when you're driving.

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