Video: Subways
This city has the busiest subway system in the world.
What is Tokyo?
This two-word phrase means to go somewhere by walking.
What is "on foot"?
We use "a few" or "many" before this type of noun.
What is a count noun?
(or... What is a plural noun?)
This is the area at a train station where you get on and off the trains.
What is a platform?
This three-word quantifier can be used before large numbers/amounts of both count and noncount nouns.
What is a lot of?
The London "underground" (subway system) also has this nickname.
What is "the tube"?
In Bangkok, a three-wheeled taxi is called this.
What is a tuk-tuk?
The direct object of a sentence comes after this.
What is the verb?
These are the commuters (people traveling to and from work or school) who take public transportation vehicles like buses or trains.
Who are riders?
Using the letters O (for direct object), PP (for prepositional phrase), S (for subject), and V (for verb), this is the word/phrase order in the following sentence.
Children ride bikes to school.
What is S V O PP?
These subway employees keep people calm, safe, and on time.
Who are attendants?
This type of transportation is a boat that takes people up or down the river.
What is a water taxi?
The quantifier some is used before these types of nouns.
What are (both) count and noncount nouns?
This is all the vehicles on the roads in a city.
What is traffic?
This is another word for a poll or questionnaire to get data about people's behavior, preferences, and opinions.
What is a survey?
Eight million people in Tokyo do this every day.
What is ride the subway?
This is the type of public transportation used by the most commuters in Bangkok.
What is the SkyTrain?
This subject pronoun is used to replace a plural noun.
What is they?
This word includes all of the modes of traveling from one place to another.
What is transportation?
In this type of report, you might find out if there is going to be any precipitation.
What is a weather report?
This famous Tokyo area train line was featured in the video.
What is the Tobu Tojo line?
This means of transportation is used by the smallest percentage of Bangkok residents.
What is a bike / bicycle?
In a sentence, a "reason clause" (including subject and verb) comes after this word.
What is because?
This means to like something better than something else. (You must pronounce it correctly to get the points!)
What is prefer?
This is the university student who wrote the Bangkok transportation report.
Who is Simon Lancaster?