EASY ENGLISH CONVERSATION: Talk about your commute to work or school สาธารณะ

Learn to talk about travel to work or school in English. I will teach you all the important words and questions you need to know for this common topic of small talk. You’ll learn how to use vocabulary like “commute”, “how far”, and “how long”. This English lesson is easy to understand and perfect for English learners who want to improve their practical conversation skills. https://www.engvid.com/easy-english-conversation-talk-about-your-commute/

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In this lesson:
0:00 Work English: Talk about your commute
1:16 Questions and answers about commutes
3:09 How do you commute?
5:49 Using "away" to talk about your commute

TRANSCRIPT:
Hello. My name is Emma, and today we are going to learn a very important word, and that word is "commute". I notice many English language learners dont know this word, but its a very useful word because its a word we can use every day.

So, what does this word "commute" mean? Well, "commute", as I said, its a common word. We use it a lot in conversation, and what it means is it means the travel between our home, or where we live, and our workplace or school. So, heres a picture of a home. Heres a picture of, you know, an office or the workplace. The commute is the travel between these two places. We can also use it to talk about the travel from home to school. So, for students, this is useful if you commute to school or you go to school, you can use the word "commute". If you work outside of the home, you can also use this word "commute". So, "commute" can be both a noun and a verb, and Ill show you how to use it in both of these ways.

Lets look at some common questions people might ask about commutes. So, one question people ask frequently is they might ask somebody, "How long is your commute?" What does this mean? It means how long does it take you to get to work, or how long does it take you to get from your home to school? So, you know, if were ever talking about work, maybe at a party or in a social event, a lot of the times we might talk about our commute. "How long is your commute?" You might say, "I have an hour commute. I have a one-hour commute." This means this trip from your home to your work or your home to your school takes one hour. For many people, thats a long commute, depending on the city you live. Some people are lucky. They have a short commute. Maybe its 10 minutes to get from their house to work or 10 minutes to get from their home to school. In the comments, I want you to write, "How long is your commute?" You can write to practice, "I have a two-hour commute," or "I have a 15-minute commute," or whatever it might be for you. You can also say, "My commute is one hour." "My commute is short." So, theres different ways to say this. You can say, "My commute", or you can say, "I have a blank hour commute."

Lets look at some other key questions you might hear using the word "commute". A common question you might get is, "How do you commute?" or, "Whats your commute like?" When people ask this, they want to know about your trip from home to work and from work back to home, or home to school and school back to home. So, what might you say? Well, when we talk about transportation, we often use the preposition "by". So, here are some different ways people commute. They might commute by foot. This means walking. So, they might commute by foot. That means they walk to their job. They might commute by bike. They ride a bike to their job. They might commute by subway or by train or by car. How do you commute? Do you commute by foot? Do you commute by car? Think about how do you get to work in the morning?

So, heres some examples of an answer. If somebody said, "How do you commute?" or, "Whats your commute like?" I would think about it and say, "Hmm, I have an easy commute." This means work is close by. Its a quick commute. Its an easy commute. If its easy, maybe its five minutes away by bike. I could also say, "My commute is 15 minutes by subway." Or, "Its a 30-minute commute by car." None of these are true, by the way. I actually have a very long commute. Its almost an hour. But just to give an example, what I want to point out is in each of these sentences, I use "by", and then I have the method of commuting. So, the method of getting to work. By bike, by subway, by car. So, in the comments, I would like to know how you commute to work or to school. So, you can say, "I commute every day by train." Its a 45-minute commute. Again, these are very common things we say when were talking to people about our everyday lives, because a lot of us have to commute most days.

So, we talked about commute. Theres another really good word I want you to know, and that word is "away". […]