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Lesson 5

Excuse me please!

• What do you want?• Could you tell me how to get from Taipei T

rain Station to Danshui please?• Yes, I could tell you…• So, please fire away.• I could tell you if I knew…• But I have no idea! Ha ha ha!• I see. Perhaps I’ll ask someone else.

Excuse me please!

• Yes, what can I do for you?

• Could you tell me how to get from Taipei Train Station to Jiantan please?

• Yes, of course. Just take the red line north, towards Danshui, and get off at Jiantan.

• I have to take the Danshui Line north?

• That’s right.

• Great! Thanks for your help!

Excuse me please!

• Yes, what can I do for you?• Could you tell me how to get from Banqiao to Shilin plea

se?• Yes, of course. Just take the blue line east, towards Kun

yang, and get off at Taipei Train Station. Then take the red line north, towards Danshui, and get off at Shilin.

• I have to take the Kunyang line east to Taipei Train Station, and then change to the Danshui Line north?

• That’s right. • Great! Thanks for your help!

Excuse me please!• Yes, what can I do for you?• Could you tell me how to get from Taipei Zoo to Danshui please?• Yes, of course. Just take brown line north, towards Zhongshan Midd

le School, and get off at Zhongxiao Fuxing. Then take the blue line west, towards Yongning, and get off at Taipei Train Station. Then take the red line north, towards Danshui, and get off at the last stop.

• I have to take the Zhongshan Middle School line north to Zhongxiao Fuxing, then change to the Yongning line west to Taipei Train Station, and then change to the Danshui Line north?

• That’s right. • Great! Thanks for your help!• Oh, sorry…• Yes?• Can you say it again, I can’t remember anything!

Directions on the web

• Listening– http://www.esl-lab.com/dir1/dir1.htm

• Prepositions– http://www.usingenglish.com/quizzes/245.html

Page 67

• What monuments [OR places of interest] can we see?

• We can see – The Grand Hotel– The Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall– The Presidential Palace– The National Taiwan Democracy Monument– The Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall

Where is …?

• It’s – the top right – the bottom left– To the right of the Grand Hotel– Above the Sun Yat-sen Memorial– Underneath the CKS Memorial

• Read the story

• Answer ALL the questions on page 70