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Your train leaves soon. One announcement changesyour plan. Can you find the right platform?
Welcome to English Detective from your EnglishToolbox. I am Julia.
And I am Martin. Listen to the scene, choose ananswer,
then use the language clues to check it. Notricks, just careful listening.
Here is the situation. Your ticket says Platform4. It is 10-20. You hear this announcement.
The 10-30 train to Brighton will now depart fromPlatform 6 instead of Platform 4.
The service is running 10 minutes late. Pleasekeep your ticket ready.
Where should you go and what is the new expecteddeparture time? Platform 4 at 10-30,
Platform 6 at 10-30, or Platform 6 at 10-40? Iheard 4-6-10-30-10 minutes. That is a lot of
numbers. It is. But you do not need to remembereverything equally. Look for the words that tell
you what changes. Our first clue is instead of.Instead of means in place of something else.
Platform 6 instead of Platform 4 means 6 replaces4.
Exactly. It does not mean that you can chooseeither platform. For another example,
we took the bus instead of the train. We chose thebus, not the train.
So I should go to Platform 6. What about the time?
Our second clue is running late. A service that isrunning late is behind its planned schedule.
Here it is 10 minutes late. The original time was10-30.
10 minutes later is 10-40. Correct. Running lateis useful for people too.
I am running 10 minutes late. Please start withoutme. It describes a delay,
not the speed of your feet. And our third clue isdepart from.
Depart from means leave a place. It is common intravel announcements
and a little more formal than leave. The traindeparts from Platform 6.
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A flight can depart from an airport. Let us hearthe announcement again.
Listen for the replacement, the delay and theplace of departure.
The 10-30 train to Brighton will now depart fromPlatform 6 instead of Platform 4.
The service is running 10 minutes late. Pleasekeep your ticket ready.
The answer is Platform 6 with an expecteddeparture at 10-40.
Of course, at a real station, you should keepchecking for further updates.
Ready for a new case? Listen carefully. The 11 o'clock train to Oxford will depart from Platform
2 instead of Platform 5. It is running 5 minuteslate.
Where should you go and when is it now expected toleave?
Platform 2 at 11-05. If you chose that,
you used the same three clues in a new situation.Now finish this sentence about your own day.
Today, I am going to use something instead ofsomething else.
You could say, Today, I am taking the bus insteadof driving.
Make your example real so the expression is easierto reuse.
Instead of a replacement, running late behindschedule, depart from, leave a place.
Replay the scene at your preferred speed on ourepisode page at yourenglishtoolbox.com.
The link is in the description. Case closed untilour next English detective.