Directions

Can you tell me the way to the British Museum?

Mmmm... Let me see. Yes. Are you on foot?

Yes, I am. - Well, go up Charing Cross Road and take Shaftesbury Avenue.

You come to New Oxford Street. Er, then it's, er, just opposite I think.

Yes, that's it, just opposite is Bloomsbury Street. - Sorry, say that again?

Just opposite, you've got Bloomsbury Street. Go down there and it's on your right.

You can't miss it.

Thanks very much. - That's okay.

Have another beer. - I don't want one, but have one yourself.

I will. I'm very thirsty. - You're always thirsty.

Perhaps it's because I don't drink enough.

A glutton

(A mother to her son, after the sixth piece of cake):

Tom, you are a glutton. How can you eat so much?

I don't know. It's just good luck.

EXERCISES

1 Take the first street on the right. — 2 Turn left at the end of the road. — 3 It’s only a twenty minutes’ walk to Oxford Street. — 4 Sorry, say that again. I can’t hear — 5 Hurry up. Don’t miss the train. — 6 Opposite the church you can see the school.