Major contents
reading
• Ticket types of Guangzhou subway
• Recommendation of different subway tickets • Subway ticket fare • Consultation on ticket purchase and usage • Money change
Pricing of the metro fare
Speaking
Situation 1: A passenger asks a clerk at the ticket office about how to buy and use the single-journey ticket / Yang Cheng Tong Card /stored-value card. Please offer help.
listening
speaking
Warm Up: What are they?
singlejourney ticket
Transportation Smart Card
Automatic Vending Machine (AVM)
Automatic Gate Machine (AGM)
Reading: Ticket types of Guangzhou Subway
Q1: Where to purchase or recharge it? Q2: Where can it be used?
Single-journey ticket
Automatic Vending Machine (AVM) Automatic Gate Machine it?
How to use it?
How to purchase single-journey ticket?
1. Locate the TVM
2. Choose the station on TVM
5. Get the ticket and the change
4. Pay for the ticket
Stored-value cards
• Q1: How much money is stored in the cards? • Q2: How to use them?
Transportation Smart Card
Some convenient stores like 7-11.
Where to purchase or recharge it?
Customer service center.
Automatic value-adding machine.
Transportation Smart Card
Some convenient stores like 7-11.
Public transportation in 16 surrounding cities. Parking meter.
Subway English
Unit 3 Ticket Office
Learning Objectives
• By the end of this unit, you will be able to: * be familiar with ticket office in the subway; * introduce different types of tickets; * introduce how to use the ticket office in the subway; * establish a glossary of ticket office.
Where can it be used?
Listening & Speaking: To whom would you recommend these tickets?
singlejourney ticket
Stored-value Card
Transportation Smart Card
Listening: Subway ticket fare
singlejourney ticket
Q1: How to purchase it? Q2: How to use it?
Stored-value Card
Q1: How much money is stored in the cards? Q2: How to use them?
Transportation Smart Card
Cost of the Transportation Smart Card Fare discount to be enjoyed with the smart card CNY70 per card with a deposit of CNY20 A 5% discount for the first 15 journeys and a 40% discount for all journeys beyond. Fares range from ¥ 2 to ¥ 14. A journey shorter than 4 km costs ¥ 2; ¥ 1 is charged for every 4 km after 4 km, every 6 km after 12 km, and every 8 km after 24 km.
3. Decide the number of tickets
How to use single-journey tickets?
Magnetic area
Ticket reclaiming slot
Automatic Gate Machine (AGM)
• Recall your personal experience of using the single-journey tickets and try to describe it. • How to use transportation smart cards?