Speak Better English with Harry | Episode 149

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• 00:10

  Hi there, this is Harry, and welcome to our podcast where I try to help you to be a better communicator using english language, looking at grammar points, phrases and expressions that will help you to communicate in a really natural way, speaking like a native.

• 00:26

  Okay, so what do I have for you in this podcast?

• 00:28

  Well, we're going to look at some collocations and some expressions, and I'll try and give you some good examples as we're going through that.

• 00:37

  So what we're going to talk about are collocations connected with traffic.

• 00:42

  Okay, so we look at some a verb and traffic, and traffic plus nouns.

• 00:47

  Okay, so let me give you the first one, verb plus traffic.

• 00:51

  So, to direct traffic, like the policeman stands, or used to stand in the middle of the street, and he would direct traffic left and right, turning left, turning right, going straight in whichever direction.

• 01:03

  So to direct traffic, to show it which way it should go, to divert traffic.

• 01:10

  So when we want to divert traffic, we want to put it in another direction because there's a blockage in the road or there's a blockage ahead or there's been some accident.

• 01:21

  So we divert traffic, hold up traffic.

• 01:26

  So to hold up traffic means to stop it for a period of time, not permanently, but again, because of an accident or some breakdown, there is a hold up in the traffic.

• 01:38

  So to hold up traffic, to reduce traffic, many governments introduce social plans, increasing the number of quality bus corridors, improve the effectiveness of public transport with the aim of reducing traffic.

• 01:56

  To reduce traffic building up in the city.

• 02:00

  And that's the next one.

• 02:01

  Traffic builds up.

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  Traffic builds up early in the morning, in the rush hour, traffic builds up late in the evening, in the rush hour home.

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  So between the hours of seven and eight in the morning, and between 536 30 or 07:00 in the evening, traffic builds up.

• 02:20

  And then after the rush hour in the morning, and after the rush hour in the evening, the traffic thins out, meaning it's not so heavy, and it starts heavy at six, and then gradually six to seven, seven to eight, the traffic begins to thin out, okay?

• 02:37

  So it becomes lighter, okay, so there are examples of the traffic with the verb or verb plus traffic.

• 02:45

  Now let's look at some traffic with a noun so we can look at traffic congestion.

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