‫In this vocabulary lesson, we're going to look at essential language used when talking about transport
‫going through the list, we have long haul, the underground motorway congestion.
‫Carpool.
‫Traffic jam, transit and emissions, all quite interesting pieces of language for talking about transport.
‫And first up, we have long haul, 80 percent of the time when this phrase is used, it's used to discuss
‫a long flight.
‫A long haul flight is probably considered something over eight or nine hours long.
‫Usually it means around sorts of 11, 12, 13, 14 hour flights.
‫Here are some examples.
‫Due to my parents work, I often spend a lot of time on long haul flights.
‫The trip from France to Japan is very much a long haul trip.
‫So here we have a long haul again, it's mostly use when talking about flights.
‫Now we have the underground.
‫This is a very British expression and I believe some other not native English speakers would maybe not
‫understand this, but it's a noun that we use to or we give this now to our tube stations or our subway
‫stations.
‫The underground in London is called exactly that.
‫It is the underground.
‫The underground system in London is the oldest subway network in the world.
‫Although the underground is useful, it can be quite expensive.
‫Very true.
‫Let's move on to our next piece of vocabulary, which is motorway in American English.
‫It is actually called a highway.
‫But in British English, we use this word motorway and it is used to describe a long piece of road where
‫cars can travel very fast.
‫Over half of adults spent more than 50 percent of their commute driving on the motorway.
‫Again, that looks like a task one adults writing task, one type sentence.
‫There was a lot of traffic on the motorway this morning, and I've highlighted that word traffic.
‫Traffic is an expression.
‫We used to talk about many cars together where you can't drive quickly and you're stuck.
‫OK, moving on.
‫We have congestion now.
‫Congestion is usually caused by traffic.
‫Congestion is similar in a way to traffic.
‫There are lots of cars together and we use this word congestion to describe not being able to drive
‫quickly and being packed together, jam packed, if you remember that from the last vocabulary lesson.
‫Due to congestion, many people in Manchester now bike to work.
‫Many people believe that congestion has caused a steep rise in pollution in the city center, congestion,
‫too many cars to travel properly.
‫This phrase car pool refers to a group of people, occasionally strangers, who decide to share one
‫car to go somewhere.
‫There may be two, three or four passengers in the car and they will share the money for petrol and
‫fuel and they may also share driving.
‫I once traveled to Spain in a car pool where we shared fuel costs and driving.
‫In the last decade, many people are choosing to commute by car pool to save money.
‫And here we have traffic.
‫This is a commonly used expression to talk about a road that is too full with cars, too much traffic,
‫which means that cars are not moving at all.
‫Roads in Australia are very organized and generally have less traffic jams.
‫I must admit, I absolutely hate being stuck in a traffic jam.
‫And next up is transit transit simply means to travel to somewhere.
‫Graham is currently in transit and should arrive here sometime tomorrow morning.
‫Due to damages to roads, there was delays in transit systems over the weekend.
‫That's a common collocation transit system, whether it's train underground buses or anything else,
‫a transit system.
‫And here we have emissions emissions refer specifically to the pollution that cars and buses and other
‫modes of transport give off.
‫The rise in emissions over recent years has led to some health problems.
‫The government is trying to cut emissions by promoting riding bikes again, this is a common collocation.
‫If emissions are falling, we say cut emissions.
‫If you're trying to to lower the emissions in a place you want to cut emissions.
‫OK, here is your vocabulary list.
‫Four words associated with transport have a go at using them in your speaking and your writing.
‫See you in the next lesson.