Name: English Travel Dialogue - Tour of London
Uploaded: 2020-01-02T02:18:32.000Z
Duration: 15 min 5 s
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In this lesson, you'll go on a tour of London.

You'll learn useful language to deal with common tourist situations, like buying tickets,

going to museums or talking to taxi drivers.

Before we start, don't forget to check out our website: Oxford Online English dot com.

We have many free lessons to help you practise and improve your English, and you can also

study in one-to-one classes with one of our professional teachers.

But now, here's an interesting fact: last year, London was the second most visited city

anywhere in the world, with nearly 20 million visitors.

Don't cheat by looking it up; we'll tell you at the end of the video.

My friends and I are thinking of doing your bus tour tomorrow.

Could you tell me more about the route and where we'll go?

Actually, we offer many different routes.

Is there anything in particular you'd like to see?

Well, I think we want the classic London experience: Big Ben, the Tower of London, and so on.

In that case I'd recommend our original route.

It starts and ends at Grosvenor Gardens, just near Buckingham Palace.

You'll cross the river by the Houses of Parliament, then back again near the London

You'll also go past the Tower of London, St Paul's Cathedral, and several other London

The whole route takes about two hours, but it's a hop on-hop off tour, so you can get

If you book online, they're 25 pounds each, or 35 if you buy from the driver.

We offer a family ticket, which includes two adults and two children.

I'm travelling with friends, so I guess that's no good.

I just have one more question: is there a guide, or an audio guide?

There's a live guide, who speaks English.

If any of your group want a tour in another language, we have audio guides available in

First question: can you name five famous London landmarks?

If you don't know, 'landmarks' means famous places.

For example, the Eiffel Tower is possibly the best-known Paris landmark.

You heard several examples in the dialogue.

Here are the examples you heard before: Buckingham Palace, the Houses of Parliament, the London

Eye, the Tower of London and St Paul's Cathedral.

You could mention others, like Marble Arch, Trafalgar Square, Hyde Park, or famous football

In the dialogue, I was asking questions about a bus tour of the city.

Can you remember any of the questions I asked?

You heard: 'Could you tell me more about the route and where we'll go?'

You could ask these questions in many common travel situations; they aren't only useful

For example, you could make questions like this: 'Could you tell me more about the

'Do you do any kind of student discounts?'

The bus tour we were talking about is 'hop on/hop off'.

This means you can get off the bus to visit places on the way, and then get back on another

Let's make our first stop, and go to one of London's famous museums.

Good morning, welcome to the Tate Modern.

Actually, general admission to the Tate modern is free; you just have to pay separately for

We have a wonderful Picasso exhibition, which I'd highly recommend.

We also have exhibitions by Franz West and Dorothea Tanning.

They're eighteen pounds for adults and five pounds for children under 18.

OK, so two adults and one child then, please.

With exhibitions, especially popular ones like the Picasso, your ticket is for a specific

There's a 30-minute slot, and you have to enter the exhibition hall within that time.

You mean, I only get 30 minutes to look around?!

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English Travel Dialogue - Tour of London

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