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 HOT AIR BALLOONS
World record 343 hot air balloons take off at the Lorraine Mondial festival in France - 12 photos
"A new world record was set at the Chambley-Bussieres Aerodrome in Eastern France when 343 hot air balloons took off,
during the Lorraine Mondial international hot air balloon festival. The balloons ascended from the former NATO air base,
and broke the previous record of 329 balloons, set at the same festival in 2009."
(telegraph.co.uk)
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MOTOR SPORTS - Visual dictionary
"Sports characterized by driving a motorized vehicle
such as a race car, motorcycle, snowmobile or personal watercraft."
(ikonet.com)
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The LimoBike
"Wildfire Tours, noted for their unique Harley Davidson
transport services for conferencing groups and special events
have unveiled the LimoBike."
See more photos.
(spicenews.com.au)
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Transportation - flashcards (englishraven.com)
(- by... car / bus / train / truck / taxi / subway / plane /
helicopter
/ boat / ship / rocketship
- on... motorcycle / bicycle / skates/rollerblades
/ skis /
horseback / foot / hands and knees)
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Obama "Beast" of a car revealed  
"It looks like something out of a James Bond film...
These are the first pictures of the new armoured limousine which will be used to ferry Barack Obama around.
Nicknamed "The Beast", the Cadillac will make its debut on 20 January, as part of the inaugural parade."
(BBC)
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Audio slideshow: The cult of the scooter  
"The Lambretta scooter ridden by actor Phil Daniels in the 1970s film Quadrophenia recently sold at auction for £36,000.
Not all scooters can boast such a famous history, but for enthusiasts - or scooterists as they are known
- the bikes remain iconic symbols of the past.
For Radio 4's You and Yours, Stephanie Power joined the mods and skinheads at a rally at Bridlington in East Yorkshire
- to see why the scooter has been so enduring."
(BBC News)
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BUS QUEUE
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Baby in stroller
(fotosearch.com)
British to American :
Pram (peramulator) = baby carriage, baby buggy, stroller, walker
(uta.fi)
+ pushchair
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A buggy = a pushchair
(mypushchair.co.uk)
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Popemobile
It "is an informal name for the specially designed automobile
used by the Pope during outdoor public appearances...
Some Popemobiles are open air, while others have bulletproof glass
to enclose the Pope."
(Wikipedia)
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ELEVATORS / LIFTS
An
elevator or lift "is a transport device used to
move goods or people vertically, from one floor to another."
(Wikipedia)
A
walk-up = "an apartment building without an elevator"
(thefreedictionary.com)
An
escalator "is a conveyor transport device for transporting
people, consisting of individual, linked steps that move up or down
on tracks,
which keep the treads horizontal... Principal areas of usage include
department stores, shopping malls, airports, transit systems,
convention centers, hotels, and public buildings. "
(Wikipedia)
A
freight elevator "(or goods lift) is an elevator
designed to carry goods...
A small freight elevator is often called a dumbwaiter "
(Wikipedia)
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A
dumb waiter
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A level crossing
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Cars
and car spares
"Cars, trucks, buses, road-building machineries.
Modern and classic vehicles and car spares.
All major brands..."
(vector-images.com)
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Whiplash
(= 'le coup du lapin')
(ericbeard.com)
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Transport
Page 1 - car, bus, train, bicycle
Page 2 - ship, boat, submarine, hovercraft
Page 3 - rocket, aero-plane, helicopter, carrier pigeon
Page 4 - fire engine, digger, lorry, tractor
Page 5 - skateboard, scooter, skates, pram
Page 6 - pony, carriage, taxi, ambulance
Page 7 - motorbike, monster truck
(speechteach.co.uk)
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Transports
- cliparts
(tell.fll.purdue.edu)
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Cliparts
- search by topics
or keywords
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Transportation
& Travel :
- At the Airport
- In the City and On The Street
- Transportation
- Types of Cars
(aussi en ESPAGNOL)
flashcards
(esl-library.com)
Click on Flashcard Library.
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Bus vocabulary 
bus tour. bus station. tour bus.
get off bus. get off bus. get off bus.
get on bus. get on bus. get on bus.
ride bus. bus stop. bus stop.
bus schedule ...
(setbc.org)
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Cars
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Planes
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Trains
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Maps :
VOCABULARY : 
Transports
in general -
Bikes - Boats - Bus - Cars  - Chuckwagons
- Motorcycles
- Planes - Puffin - Segway - Submarines -
Trains - Trucks - Tube
 TRANSPORTS
in general :
- Vehicles
- PowerPoint Presentation
Click on D & T / Movement
(Primary Resources)
- Travel
- Les mots s'affichent quand on passe la souris sur
les images. - avec son (Language Guide)
- Transport
(learnenglish.de)
Useful Vocabulary (with SOUND) - Build Up -
Naturally Speaking - Dialogues - Games and Tests
- Vehicle-Related
Words with pictures (enchantedlearning.com)
- Transportation
- Picture Dictionary (pdictionary.com)
- Jet pack
(Wikipedia)
- Land
travel - Les mots s'affichent quand on passe la
souris sur les images. - avec son (Language Guide)
- Transportation
- a lesson proposed by Randall S. Davis (esl-lab)
with :
- a list of commonly-used vocabulary with a recording of
the words in RealMedia format.
- a short quiz to test students' comprehension
of some of the words,
- a Follow-Up exercise for expanding students'
use of the vocabulary in a conversation with a partner or group.
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BIKES :
 BOATS :
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WHY - Villa yacht 
"The 58 x 38 WHY yacht, offering
a new art of living on the sea."
(YouTube)
"The yacht is contained in a triangle shaped hull
measuring 58 x 38 meter
and the interior is furnished
with water resistant buffalo leather
with calpinage technique..." (Tuvie)
More pictures.
Le calepinage
"est l'art de montrer à l'échelle sur un croquis la disposition d'éléments de formes définies pour former un motif
ou composer un assemblage et d'en calculer
le nombre nécessaire pour couvrir une surface
(carrelage, couverture, plaquage...)
ou remplir un volume (appareillage de pierre)..."
(Wikipedia)
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Maritime Transport
Structures and equipment required to transport passengers and cargo by ship.
harbour / canal lock / ancient ships / traditional ships /
examples of sails / examples of rigs / four-masted bark /
examples of boats and ships / anchor / life-saving equipment /
navigation devices / maritime signals / maritime buoyage system
(visual.merriam-webster.com)
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- CARS
:
- Synonyms for “Car” (dailywritingtips.com)
- Edheads Crash Scene Glossary - UPDATED
ex : Skid: "A mark left by tires on a road, typically from rapid deceleration. Fresh skid marks have small pieces of the tire present."
(edheads.org)
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A tailback (cartoonstock.com)
Synonyms: traffic jam, queue, line, gridlock, logjam
- The
car
Vocabulary + Fill-in Exercise - The car + Find the pairs - Parts
of the car
(englisch-hilfen.de)
- Car
tuning (Wikipedia)
1 Areas of modification
1.1 Engine tuning 1.2 Suspension tuning 1.3 Body tuning
2 Terms
3 Legal requirements
4 Sanctioning organizations...
CHUCKWAGONS :
- ANATOMY
OF A CHUCKWAGON
It "used to be a wagon carrying cooking facilities and food
for serving men working outdoors, as at a ranch or lumber camp..."
(englischlehrer.de)
MOTORCYCLES :
- AIRPORT :
- PUFFIN :
- Listen up, 007, we call it the Puffin
"THE American space agency, Nasa, is to unveil a prototype of a personal flying machine capable of propelling soldiers behind enemy lines.
The mini aircraft, which can soar 50 miles through the clouds or under radar, has been named the Puffin, after the small waterbird famed for being able to land on impossible terrain. "
(technology.timesonline.co.uk)
- SEGWAY :
- Segway PT
"a two-wheeled, self-balancing electric vehicle...
The name "Segway" is a homophone of "segue" (a smooth transition, literally Italian for "follows").
PT is an initialism for personal transporter"
(Wikipedia)
- SUBMARINES :
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Nuclear submarine
"Underwater warship that operates on nuclear energy; it can remain underwater for months without surfacing."
(visual.merriam-webster.com)
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WORLD WAR II NAVAL GLOSSARY and TERMINOLOGY
"Note: The majority of terminology below refers primarily to the U.S. Navy and/or to U.S. submarines.
Several items, however are specific to both U-boats and the German Kriegsmarine and are so noted."
(valoratsea.com)
- Submarine vocabulary
(upload.wikimedia.org)
- Atomic submarine - A picture + Definitions
(infovisual.info)
- The Astute
(img.dailymail.co.uk)
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