Conversation: Asking for Directions

A short conversation between a visitor and a local. Listen for the direction phrases: keep walking straight ahead, turn left, take your first right, across from.

How to practise

1. Listen once without reading.
2. Listen again and read along.
3. Pause after each line and repeat it out loud.

Transcript

• Excuse me, I’m sorry to trouble you, but can you tell me how I can get to the train station?
• Yes, no problem.
• It’s that way.
• Keep walking straight ahead, then after you pass the library, you have to turn left.
• Then take your first right and it’s across from the bus station.
• You cannot miss it.
• Thank you so much.
• I’ve only been in town a few days, so I really don’t know my way around yet.
• Oh, I know that feeling.
• My husband and I moved here a year ago, and I still don’t know how to find certain places.
• Houston is so big.
• So, just to double check, I keep walking straight ahead till I pass the library, then I have to turn left and take the first right.
• Then it’s across the bus station.
• Is that correct?
• Yes, that is correct.
• Well, thanks for helping me.
• I must go and catch my train.
• Hopefully I haven’t missed it.
• Okay, bye.