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    Travel English for Busy Travelers: Level 1
    Travel English for Busy Travelers: Level 1
    Travel English for Busy Travelers: Level 1
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    Travel English for Busy Travelers: Level 1

    By David Ellis

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    The goal of this self-study e-textbook is to help you quickly learn a special type of English, travel English. The e-book is written for EFL (English as a Foreign Language) students who are too busy to take a course in travel English but who still want to learn English they need for world travel. The book focuses on topics, not grammar. Grammar patterns that are useful for conversation are taught, but the focus is on topics that are important for travelers, such as going through immigration and customs, checking into a hotel, ordering at a restaurant, changing money, getting help, taking public transportation, renting cars, and shopping. Each chapter includes a short and a long conversation. Students can easily practice changing words in the long conversations by changing underlined words. The book is designed for self-study with lots of exercises on vocabulary (new words and phrases), reading comprehension, and grammar patterns; you can easily check your answers with an answer key at the bottom of each exercise. The book is written for beginners, but it can be used as a good review book for false beginners and intermediate students. The order of chapters follows the natural order of things tourists probably need to do when they travel—starting with immigration, customs, checking into a hotel, introducing yourself, and moving on to topics such as ordering at a restaurant and bar, changing money, getting around (by taxi, bus, subway, and train), and going shopping. The reading passages at the end of each chapter are written on topics that will help you avoid many problems foreign tourists have when traveling in America and other English-speaking countries. There are two chapters titled Can You Do It? (Chapters 5 and 10) that help students review important points from the e-book. Students can easily move around the book and find topics of interest by using the e-Book’s Table of Contents. Work at your own pace in order to get ready for your next trip to places all around the world where English is spoken.

    *Table of Contents*
    How Your Tablet Can Help You Learn English
    How to Use this Book
    Chapter 1: Arriving at an International Airport
    Immigration (Passport Control)
    Customs (Customs Control)
    Good and Bad Answers at Immigration & Customs
    Chapter 2: Introducing Yourself & Checking into a Hotel
    Introducing Yourself at a Hotel Bar
    Introducing Two People
    Checking into a Hotel
    Introducing Yourself in English
    Chapter 3: Going Out to Eat
    At a Fast-food Restaurant
    Choosing Dinner on an Airplane
    Ordering Dinner at a Restaurant
    Magic Words for Ordering Food and Drinks
    Chapter 4: Getting Help
    Talking with Hotel Staff
    Trying to Find a Lost Bag
    How to Get Help and Information at Your Hotel
    Chapter 5: Can You Do It?
    (Review Chapter for Chapters 1-4)
    Arriving at an International Airport in the USA
    Chapter 6: Getting Around by Taxi, Train, Bus or Rental Car
    Riding in a Taxi
    Calling a Taxi
    At a Train Station
    At a Subway Station
    On a Subway Platform 1
    On a Subway Platform 2
    Talking with Subway Staff
    At a Bus Station
    Renting a Car
    Trouble Buying Tickets
    Chapter 7: Changing Money & Changing Plans
    Changing Money at a Hotel
    Calling to Change Airline Reservations after Breaking an Arm
    Tipping in the USA
    Chapter 8: Making Plans for Sightseeing
    What Should I Do in San Francisco?
    Telling Time
    Chapter 9: Going Shopping
    At a Supermarket
    At a Shopping Mall
    At a Convenience Store
    Shopping in America
    Chapter 10: Can You Do It?
    (Review Chapter for Chapters 6-9)
    How to Improve Your English Speaking Skills
    Bonus Chapter: Welcome to Miami!
    Welcome to Miami! (Extra Reading)
    Appendix 1: Recommended Books for Self-Study
    Appendix 2: Slang
    Appendix 3: Textese (Texting Language or SMS Language)
    Appendix 4: For Classroom Teachers

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDavid Ellis
    Release dateSep 3, 2015
    ISBN9781310624575
    Travel English for Busy Travelers: Level 1
    Author

    David Ellis

    David Ellis’s previous novels include In the Company of Liars, Jury of One, Life Sentence, and Line of Vision, for which he won an Edgar Award. An attorney from Chicago, he serves as Counsel to the Speaker of the Illinois House of Representatives.

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      Travel English for Busy Travelers - David Ellis

      Travel English

      for Busy Travelers

      Level 1 Self-Study e-Textbook

      (with Answers)

      By David Ellis

      For further information on Travel English training, contact the author at: jd6919@yahoo.com

      Travel English for Busy Travelers

      Copyright © 2015 by John David Ellis

      All rights reserved. This publication is licensed for your personal use only. No part of this book may be transmitted or reproduced in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including recording, photocopying, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without the written permission of the author, except for the inclusion of brief quotations in a review. For permission requests, please contact the author at: jd6919@yahoo.com.

      While every effort has been made by the author to ensure the legitimacy and accuracy of the links, references, and cultural information (available at the time of the book’s publishing) presented in this e-book, the author is not responsible or liable for broken links or missing and fallacious information contained in the links and text of the e-book. Opinions contained in links included in this e-book do not necessarily reflect or express those of the author.

      The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.

      ~ St. Augustine

      Table of Contents

      How to Use this Book

      Chapter 1 – Arriving at an International Airport

      Chapter 2 – Introductions & Checking into a Hotel

      Chapter 3 – Going Out to Eat

      Chapter 4 – Getting Help and Information

      Chapter 5 – Can You Do It? (Review Chapter for Units 1-4)

      Chapter 6 – Getting Around

      Chapter 7 – Changing Money & Changing Plans

      Chapter 8 – Making Plans for Sightseeing

      Chapter 9 – Going Shopping

      Chapter 10 – Can You Do It? (Review Chapter for Units 6-9)

      Bonus Chapter – Welcome to Miami!

      Appendix 1 – How Your e-Book Reader Can Help You Learn English

      Appendix 2 – Recommended Books for Self-Study

      Appendix 3 – American Slang

      Appendix 4 – Textese (Texting Language or SMS Language)

      Appendix 5 – Pre-reading Discussion Questions for Teachers

      About the Author and Special Thanks

      Connect with the Author

      How to Use this Book

      This e-textbook, Travel English for Busy Travelers, can be used in different ways. It can be used by students with a teacher, or it can be used by a student with a tutor (private teacher). Most students, however, will use this e-book as a self-study book. Learning a foreign language through self-study can be difficult, but I try to make it as easy for you as possible. Also, I think it is easier to learn English with an e-book than a paper book thanks to features such as Text-to-Speech (TTS), highlighting, and the Kindle dictionary. However, self-study is a stressful idea for some students. Many of my students tell me they do not know how to learn a foreign language by themselves without a teacher’s help, so I want to give you some advice on how to use this e-book and how to learn travel English without a teacher in a short time.

      1) Read the conversations out loud. Try to practice conversations until you can say half of a conversation without looking at your e-book. You can make conversation practice fun by practicing with a friend who likes to speak English. You can also use two different voices if you practice by yourself. For example, you can speak with a happy voice and a tired voice, or you can speak with a sad voice and a sexy voice. You can also practice some of the dialogues (conversations) in this e-book with the author by visiting my YouTube channel: MyYouTubeChannel (Click on Playlists and then click on the Travel English e-Book Videos). In most dialogues, I read the A parts and you can say the B parts of the conversations. You can use the pause button if I speak too quickly for you. Also, try to practice so that you can speak all the B parts of a conversation in the e-book without looking. The B parts of a conversation are usually tourist roles. For example, the A role may be a taxi driver and the B role is a tourist. Finally, try to be creative and change the conversations after you practice them two or three times. At the end of the long conversations, I give you words that you can use instead of (in place of) the underlined words, but it is better if you use your own words.

      2) Learn vocabulary that is useful for travel English. English has a huge (very, very large) vocabulary. Don’t worry; you don’t have to learn a huge number of words to communicate well in English when traveling. The e-book includes simple definitions of many important words and phrases (groups of words), but you may need to use a translation dictionary to look up the meaning of some words. It is best if you can study English in English, but use a translation dictionary if you cannot understand simple definitions in English. Always highlight words that are new for you; it will make it easy for you to review your new vocabulary. If you have time, keep a vocabulary journal in a notebook with new words and definitions. Finally, try to learn phrases (groups of words) for fast learning. Native speakers of English often speak in phrases and very short sentences. You can, too. Just like me. Yes, really! No problem! Just do it.

      3) Read, read, read! Read the reading passages two or more times. Try to read the reading passage quickly without a dictionary the first time; you can highlight new words, but do not look up the definitions. Next, read the passage again; read slowly and look up words you do not know using your Kindle Dictionary or another dictionary. Finally, do the reading exercises (ex. comprehension check, vocabulary or True-False exercises) and check your answers. Reading is one of the most important things you can do to improve your English. Many great teachers (including Dr. Stephen Krashen) who study the best ways of learning a foreign language say that the fastest way to learn a foreign language is by doing lots of reading in the language you want to learn. I think reading is the best way to improve your vocabulary. It is a good way to learn new words and review words you know. It is best if you read things that you think are interesting. I think readers of this e-book are interested in learning travel English, so all of the readings in this book are on travel topics, especially on advice for avoiding problems while you are traveling in North America. Remember that you need to learn about American culture, not just English language.

      4) Learn simple grammar that is helpful for making sentence patterns. This e-book is more of a topic-based book than a grammar-based book, but the book includes grammar that is useful for making sentence patterns you probably need for travel English. You do not need to know many grammar words to understand this book, but you do need to know the following words: present, past, future, tense (ex. past tense), subject, noun, verb, adjective, adverb, singular and plural. Please look up these words in your translation dictionary if you do not know them. Reading is not only good for building your vocabulary; it is also a good way to learn grammar. When you read the dialogues and reading passages, try to notice some grammar patterns.

      5) Be an active learner. That means you should work hard and try to think in English. Translating between English and your native language may seem easy to you, but it will slow down your language learning. Do all the exercises and check your answers. Try to think about why you made mistakes, but don’t worry if you can’t understand every mistake you make. The review chapters (Chapter 5 and Chapter 10) may be more difficult, but do not skip these chapters. If you cannot do some things in the review chapters, that means you need to go back and study those things again. You may need to take notes on difficult words and grammar. Review your notes when you have time riding a bus or train, or look at your notes when you are having a coffee break. Try to study a little each day; don’t just study a lot one day of the week and then take a long break from studying. Learning a foreign language is

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