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Types of road

Your score	Vocabulary	Translation	Example sentence / notes
0/0	a minor road	eine Nebenstraße	‘Our sat nav took us on a number of minor roads to get here, so it took us longer than expected.’
0/0	a main road	eine Hauptstraße	‘Our offices are located close to the main road between Brighton and Gatwick.’
0/0	a dual carriageway	eine zweispurige Straße	‘It’s quicker to take the dual carriageway to the port.’ American English = ‘a divided highway’
0/0	a motorway	eine Autobahn	‘There are long delays on the motorway, so I suggest you take an alternative route.’ American English = ‘a freeway’

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Vocabulary, Audio, Translation, Example sentence / notes

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a minor road

eine Nebenstraße

‘Our sat nav took us on a number of minor roads to get here, so it took us longer than expected.’

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a main road

eine Hauptstraße

‘Our offices are located close to the main road between Brighton and Gatwick.’

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a dual carriageway

eine zweispurige Straße

‘It’s quicker to take the dual carriageway to the port.’

American English = ‘a divided highway’

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a motorway

eine Autobahn

‘There are long delays on the motorway, so I suggest you take an alternative route.’

American English = ‘a freeway’

On the motorway

Your score	Vocabulary	Translation	Example sentence / notes
0/0	a central reservation	eine zentrale Reservierung	‘There’s a lot of litter in the central reservation.’
0/0	a hard shoulder	ein Pannenstreifen	‘I think the car has a flat tyre. I’ll pull onto the hard shoulder.’
0/0	a lane	eine Spur	‘Stay in the left lane at the junction to turn left onto Station Road.’ This is in the sense of a lane on a motorway or dual carriageway. ‘A lane’ is also used for a small road typically in the countryside.
0/0	a motorway service station	eine Autobahnraststätte	‘This is the last motorway service station for thirty miles.’

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Vocabulary, Audio, Translation, Example sentence / notes

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a central reservation

eine zentrale Reservierung

‘There’s a lot of litter in the central reservation.’

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a hard shoulder

ein Pannenstreifen

‘I think the car has a flat tyre. I’ll pull onto the hard shoulder.’

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a lane

eine Spur

‘Stay in the left lane at the junction to turn left onto Station Road.’

This is in the sense of a lane on a motorway or dual carriageway. ‘A lane’ is also used for a small road typically in the countryside.

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a motorway service station

eine Autobahnraststätte

‘This is the last motorway service station for thirty miles.’

Roads

Your score	Vocabulary	Translation	Example sentence / notes
0/0	a cat's eye	Ein Katzenauge	‘The fog was pretty bad, but the cat's eyes made it easier to see where the road was.’
0/0	a junction	eine Abzweigung	‘Go straight over the junction then turn right at the petrol station.’
0/0	a one-way street	eine Einbahn	‘You can’t turn left here - it’s a one-way street.’
0/0	a pedestrian crossing	ein Fußgängerüberweg	‘It’s safer to use the pedestrian crossing further down the road.’ This is also known as a ‘pelican crossing’.
0/0	a petrol station	eine Tankstelle	‘Are there any petrol stations near here? I’m running low on petrol.’ American English = ‘a gas station’
0/0	a pothole	ein Schlagloch	‘We hit a pothole on the way here. I think the wheel is damaged.’
0/0	a road sign	ein Straßenzeichen	‘There are a lot of road signs at the junction, it’s quite confusing.’
0/0	a roundabout	ein Kreisverkehr	‘Our head office is located just off the roundabout at the end of the dual carriageway.’ American English = ‘a traffic circle’
0/0	a slip road	eine Auffahrt	‘Take the slip road onto the motorway.’
0/0	a speed camera		‘There are a number of speed cameras on the dual carriageway.’
0/0	a street light	ein Straßenlicht	‘There are no street lights along this stretch of road.’
0/0	traffic lights	Verkehrsampel	‘The traffic lights have stopped working so there are long delays.’
0/0	a zebra crossing	ein Zebrastreifen	‘The new zebra crossing has made it safer to cross the road.’ American English = ‘a cross walk’