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"Car Rental"

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budget car rentals

two men

3:22

Pre-Listening Exercise

What are your major considerations when deciding on renting a specific car? How careful do you look for budget car rentals?

Idioms

" catch one's eye" = attract one's attention
" She was planning on renting a compact car, but a nice sports car caught her eye, and she left the parking lot with it."

" pay through the nose" = pay a great deal for something, sacrifice for
" You'll pay through the nose to rent a car during the holiday season."

Listening Exercise

A. Listen to the recording and answer the questions.

B. Listen to the conversation again as you read the Quiz Script.

Vocabulary Practice

Do the vocabulary quizzes with the words from the conversation for more practice:

Post-Listening Exercise

What factors are important to you when renting a car or other vehicle? Rank these items in order of importance and then discuss your ideas with a partner.

Online Investigation

Imagine that you want to rent an economy car for three days during a trip to California. You don't need car insurance, but you need a car that has unlimited miles. Search for two or three car rental agencies and compare them to see which company will give you the best deal. Consider cost, car features, and mileage as part of your research. Discuss your findings with a partner.

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Look at these examples to see how these verb patterns work.

The bus stopped picking up the children.
The bus stopped to pick up the children. I want to try studying with a friend to see if it helps us stay more motivated.
I'm trying to study but it's impossible with all this noise.

Try this exercise to test your grammar.

Grammar test 1

Verbs followed by '-ing' or by 'to' + infinitive 2: Grammar test 1

Read the explanation to learn more.

Grammar explanation

Some verbs have a different meaning depending on whether they are followed by an - ing form or to + infinitive.

Stop + - ing means the action is not happening any more.

I've stopped buying the newspaper because now I read the news online.

Stop + to + infinitive means that someone or something stops an activity so that they can do something else.

He stopped the video to ask the students some questions.

Try + - ing means that you are trying something as an experiment, especially as a possible solution to a problem, to see if it works or not.

Have you tried turning the computer off and on again?

Try + to + infinitive means that something is difficult but you are making an effort to do it.

I'm trying to learn Japanese but it's very difficult.

Remember + - ing and forget + - ing refer to having (or not having) a memory of something in the past.

I remember watching this film before.
I'll neverforget meeting you for the first time in this café.

Remember + to + infinitive and forget + to + infinitive refer to recalling (or not recalling) that there is something we need to do before we do it.

Please remember to buy some milk on the way home.
Heforgot to lock the door when he went out.

Do this exercise to test your grammar again.

Grammar test 2

Verbs followed by '-ing' or by 'to' + infinitive 2: Grammar test 2

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Look at these examples to see how these verb patterns work. The bus stopped picking up the children. The bus stopped to pick up the children. I want to try studying with a friend to see if it helps us stay more motivated. I'm trying to study but it's impossible with all this noise.

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Look at these examples to see how will, going to and the present continuous are used.

Oh great! That meeting after work's been cancelled. I'll go to that yoga class instead.
I'm going to try to visit my relatives in Australia this year.
The restaurant is reserved for 8. We're having a drink at Beale's first.

Try this exercise to test your grammar.

Grammar explanation

We use different verb forms to talk about our plans for the future, depending on what kind of plan it is: a spontaneous plan, a pre-decided plan or an arrangement.

We use will to talk about spontaneous plans decided at the moment of speaking.

Oops, I forgot to phone Mum! I'll do it after dinner.
I can't decide what to wear tonight. I know! I'll wear my green shirt.
There's no milk. I'll buy some when I go to the shops.

We use going to to talk about plans decided before the moment of speaking.

I'm going to phone Mum after dinner. I told her I'd call at 8 o'clock.
I'm going to wear my black dress tonight.
I'm going to go to the supermarket after work. What do we need?

Present continuous

We usually use the present continuous when the plan is an arrangement - already confirmed with at least one other person and we know the time and place.

I'm meeting Jane at 8 o'clock on Saturday.
We're having a party next Saturday. Would you like to come?

We often use the present continuous to ask about people's future plans.

Are you doing anything interesting this weekend?

Do this exercise to test your grammar again.

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1-16 English File Intermediate Third Edition

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Comparative adjectives

We use comparative adjectives to show change or make comparisons:

This car is certainly better,but it's much more expensive.
I'm feelinghappier now.
We need abigger garden.

We use thanwhen we want to compare one thing with another:

She is two years older than me.
New York is much biggerthan Boston.
He is a better playerthan Ronaldo.
France is a bigger countrythan Britain.

When we want to describe how something or someone changes we can use two comparatives with and:

The balloon got bigger and bigger.
Everything is gettingmore and more expensive.
Grandfather is lookingolder and older.

We often use with comparative adjectives to show that one thing depends on another:

The faster you drive, the more dangerous it is.
(= When you drive faster, it is more dangerous.)

The higher they climbed, the colder it got.
(= When they climbed higher, it got colder.)

Superlative adjectives

We use the with superlative adjectives:

It was the happiest day of my life.
Everest isthe highest mountain in the world.
That'sthe best film I have seen this year.
I have three sisters: Jan isthe oldest and Angela is the youngest.

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Superlative adjectives 2

How to form comparative and superlative adjectives

We usually add -er and -est to one-syllable words to make comparatives and superlatives:

If an adjective ends in a vowel and a consonant, we double the consonant:

We use more and most to make comparatives and superlatives for most two syllable adjectives and for all adjectives with three or more syllables:

However, with these common two-syllable adjectives, you can either add -er/ -r and -est/ -st or use more and most:

He is certainly handsomer than his brother.
His brother is handsome, but he ismore handsome.
She is one ofthe politest people I have ever met.
She isthe most polite person I have ever met.

The adjectives good, bad and far have irregular comparatives and superlatives:

How to form comparative and superlative adjectives

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"Travel Arrangements"

Level:

Topic:

Speakers:

Length:

difficult

airline tickets

two men

01:11

Pre-Listening Exercise

Checking travel Web sites can be very helpful in planning trips. After you decide where to travel, do you talk to a travel agent about your vacation plans, or do you make all of your plans online by yourself?

Listening Exercise

A. Listen to the recording and answer the questions.

Post-Listening Exercise

With a partner, talk about a trip you went on in high school. Answer these questions:

Where did you go?

How did you get there?

Who went with you?

How long did you stay there?

How much money did you spend on travel, hotels, and food?

Online Investigation

Imagine that you have $3,000 to take a three-week vacation to one or more of these cities: Las Vegas, Hawaii, or Paris, and one city of your choice. Use the Internet to find out the cost of airfare and train/subway travel to get there from where you live.

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Travel Arrangements - Randall's ESL Cyber Listening Lab

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Making vacation or travel arrangements includes flights, hotels, and tours. Listen to this conversation on the topic to plan your vacation.

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Used to + infinitive

Repeated actions in the past

We can use used to + infinitive to talk about past habits or things that we did repeatedly in the past.

Situations or states that are no longer true

We can use used to + infinitive to talk about situations or states (stative verbs) which were true in the past, but they are no longer true.

Used to, didn't use to, did you use to

The negative form of used to + infinitive is didn't use to..., and we make questions with did you use to ...

I usually do (NOT I use to do)

Used to only has a past form. If we want to talk about present habits or things that we do repeatedly in the present, we should use usually, normally, often with present simple.

Be used to

If you are used to something or to doing something, you are accustomed to it. Maybe it's something that is new, strange or difficult, but you have done it for some time and now you don't find it new, strange or difficult any more. Be used to is a state, so it is never used in continuous forms. It's normally used in simple tenses.

Get used to

If you get used to something or to doing something, you become accustomed to something. Get used to something is the process of becoming used to something.

Used to + infinitive, be/get used to + -ing

The past verb used to is always followed by infinitive. The word to is part of the infinitive.

After be used to, or get used to, we use a noun or a - ing verb. The word to is a preposition, not part of an infinitive. That is why when a verb follows, it must take the - ing form.

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