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[2:36] Cambridge Business English Beginner Unit 10B: Discussion on Commuting and Public Transport

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Learning English is not just about mastering grammar and vocabulary; more importantly, it is about using it naturally in real-life situations. However, textbook sentences are often too formal and far from everyday expressions. To speak authentic, natural English, you need exposure to dialogues in real contexts. Here, we select frequently used daily English expressions covering social, work, and travel situations, helping you move away from 'textbook English' and learn phrases actually used by native speakers. Below is the content of this issue of 'New Cambridge Business English (Beginner) Unit 10B'. Consistent practice will make your English more life-like!

Speaker 1: I think it's a stupid idea. The motorways are already too full and now they're going to stop cars using one of the lanes. It's crazy. The traffic will be twice as bad and there will be a lot more accidents as well. People will spend hours and hours stuck in traffic jams and be late for work all the time.

Speaker 2: Okay, I know cars are bad for the environment and all that but big increases in petrol prices aren't going to make any difference. What about industry? Higher petrol prices are only going to increase companies' costs and put jobs at risk.

Speaker 3: It's about time when I go shopping. There are thousands of people all on a narrow little pavement trying to walk along. It's impossible to relax. Car drivers should use park and ride schemes. Leave their cars out of the city centre. Shopping should be fun and not stressful.

Speaker 4: It's difficult to say really. Paying every time you use a road might be a good idea, I suppose some people might leave their cars at home a bit more often which would be good. But there isn't any public transport where I live so it would be more expensive for me personally.

Speaker 5: How am I going to get to work if I can't leave my car there? It takes twice as long to get to work on the bus and it costs twice as much as well. So of course I'm not going to use public transport.

Speaker 6: I think it's a good idea. I hate it when you don't have the right money on the buses. They don't accept notes so you need a pocket full of change all the time. I like the idea of a plastic card, especially if it makes them cheaper to use as well. Nobody liked phone cards at first, did they? And now look, everyone uses them.

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expensive
adj
1. high in price or charging high prices
e.g. expensive clothes
an expensive shop
petrol
noun
1. a volatile flammable mixture of hydrocarbons (hexane and heptane and octane etc.) derived from petroleum
used mainly as a fuel in internal-combustion engines
Synonym: gasolinegasolenegas
plastic
noun
1. a card (usually plastic) that assures a seller that the person using it has a satisfactory credit rating and that the issuer will see to it that the seller receives payment for the merchandise delivered
e.g. do you take plastic?
Synonym: credit cardcharge cardcharge plate
2. generic name for certain synthetic or semisynthetic materials that can be molded or extruded into objects or films or filaments or used for making e.g. coatings and adhesives
relax
verb
1. cause to feel relaxed
e.g. A hot bath always relaxes me
Synonym: unstrainunlaxloosen upunwindmake relaxed
2. become less tense, rest, or take one's ease
e.g. He relaxed in the hot tub
Let's all relax after a hard day's work
Synonym: loosen upunbendunwinddecompressslow down
3. become loose or looser or less tight
e.g. The noose loosened
the rope relaxed
Synonym: loosenloose
4. make less taut
e.g. relax the tension on the rope
Synonym: unbend
5. make less active or fast
e.g. He slackened his pace as he got tired
Don't relax your efforts now
Synonym: slackslackenslack up
6. become less severe or strict
e.g. The rules relaxed after the new director arrived
Synonym: loosen
7. make less severe or strict
e.g. The government relaxed the curfew after most of the rebels were caught
Synonym: loosen
8. become less tense, less formal, or less restrained, and assume a friendlier manner
e.g. our new colleague relaxed when he saw that we were a friendly group
Synonym: loosen up
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