Listen and mark the sentences T (true) or F (false).
a. Tim stopped a man who was walking quite slowly down the road.
b. Tim said, “Excuse me, could you tell me the address of Charing Cross station”.
c. The man said that he hasn’t time.
d. Tim asked a businesswoman who was walking towards the station.
e. The red bus was very cheep.
Complete the sentences from the text.
a. Journalist Tim Moore went four cities ___________.
b. The three tests were ___________.
c. The __________ was forty pounds.
d. The _________ was expensive.
e. Tim went down into the ____________.
Answer the questions.
a. Who did he ask first?
b. What did the man say?
c. Who did he ask next? What happened?
d. What he did buy? Where?
e. How much was it?
Reading
1 Read and translate the first paragraph of the text. [2. p. 46.]
Big cities
Big cities often have a reputation for being rude, unfriendly places for tourists. Journalist Tim Moore went to four cities, London, Rome, Paris, and New York, to find out if this is true. He went dressed as foreign tourist and did three tests to see which city had the friendliest and most polite inhabitants. The three tests were: