Self-study activity:
Watch this short ITN video clip about the new way of getting around in Heathrow and fill in the blanks in the transcript below with the missing numbers.
The task is suitable for Básico 2 students.
Meet the future, say the designers of public transport. This 30 million pound pod network has replaced (1) ... thousand annual airport bus journeys between Heathrow Terminal 5 and its car parks. Each is battery-powered and entirely computer-controlled. They arrive on demand and make a (2) ... kilometre journey in just five minutes. It took the airport buses up to (3) ... minutes in addition to the 10-15 minute average waiting time.
Your personal pod with four seats will arrive to collect you and your family in around (4) ... seconds and will whisk you non-stop to your destination. The twenty-one vehicle is (5) ... more efficient than a car and automatically-clocked to recharge their batteries when no-one is using them.
It is estimated these cute little private trains will carry some (6) ... passengers a year, a promising start to a novel idea which could just revolutionise transport.
Key:
(1) 50,000 (2) 3.8 (3) 15 (4) 30 (5) 70% (6) half a million
