Travel English Pt.1: Master Essential Conversations for Your Next Trip | Complete English Course

Hello and welcome to today's class. For this class, we will be talking about travel. We're going to learn how to make sentences about our journey, our trips. Let's say we want to take a vacation or maybe we want to go to see a loved one. How do we have conversations around this? So that is what we're going to talk about in this class. Sit tight and listen. This is a list of the words we'll be using in this session. This is our vocabulary. The first on our list is travel. Now what's the meaning of travel? Travel simply means to go from one place to another, typically over a distance of some length. Probably you're leaving your city to go to another city or it may be in the same city but just in a different neighborhood that's really far from your neighborhood. And then we also have journeys that require us to leave our country to another country. Now this is what we mean by travel. The next word we want to learn is luggage. Now the singular form of luggage is luggage and the plural form is luggage. So we don't have luggages. We don't add s to the word luggage. That means luggage can mean just one suitcase and it can also mean two suitcases. We're traveling right so definitely we need this. But what word is this? Let's take a look. Luggage is a suitcase. Like we said it's a singular form of the word luggage or luggage are suitcases or other bags that are used to pack personal belongings. So now we see why it's important for this class. We really need our luggage when we're traveling. We really need our bags, our suitcases to pack some personal belongings, some things we will need when we travel to where we're going to. So it could be our toothbrush, it could be our dresses, our clothes. These are our personal belongings. The next word is weight. What does weight mean? Weight is to find out how heavy or light someone or something is typically by using scales. Now we're traveling we need to find out how heavy what we're going with is. It's the kilograms. How many kilograms does it weigh? As we continue in this class we'll find out why this word is important for this class. Some other key words we want to talk about before we start the class are souvenir and airport. But first let's start with souvenir. What is a souvenir? You've heard people talk about oh I'm going to get a souvenir when I travel to America or I got a souvenir at my friend's birthday party. Now what's that word? What does that mean? A souvenir is a thing that is kept as a reminder of a person, place or event. So probably the person traveled to America and the person got this beautiful key holder or got this beautiful picture frame. Now this would always serve as a reminder of his or her trip to this country called America. Or maybe the person went for a birthday party or even a wedding party and got a gift. Most times we get gifts when we go to these events. Thank you gifts. Thank you for coming. When you see them in your house it would always remind you of when you went for this particular event. Now that's what we call a souvenir. A souvenir can mean anything. Some people give iPhones as gifts at their weddings. Some people can also get a car. Yes so as long as it's a gift that you got to remind you of a particular event, a place or a person or it was a gift that you received. Yes you could get it for yourself or you can receive it from someone. What we call this type of gift is souvenir. The next word is airport. Now I feel like this word is a very easy one but let's not forget what it means. An airport is a complex of runways and buildings for takeoff, landing and maintenance of civil aircraft with facilities for passengers. Now simply put an airport is where we go to take planes right? Where we're traveling and where we're going to is a very far place. The distance is quite far and we don't want to spend so much time on this journey. So some people would prefer to travel by air. Now where do we go to get into our plane? Obviously we can't get the plane from our houses. We can't catch a plane from the bus so we have to go to an airport. Now this word is also very important for this class because we will come across this word several times in this class. All right so let's get started. For this class we're going to pay attention to subjects and verbs. Now this is very important in making sentences while speaking English language. This part of grammar helps us to arrange our sentences. It helps us to construct our sentences. Now what is a subject? A subject is a person, place, animal or thing that performs the action that does what the sentence talks about. It performs the action in the sentence. It could be a person, an animal, a place or a thing. As long as it is doing what the action is talking about. Simply put we can call it the doer. The subject is the doer while the verb is the action. The verb is the doing word. Now any word that can be done, any word that can be done is a verb in English language. It's an action word. So for example we have a sentence. Sally went to school. In this simple sentence Sally is the subject because Sally is a person. Sally is a girl that does what that goes to school that went to school. So she is the one performing what the sentence is talking about. And then the verb is went. Went is a verb because it is an action word. That was what Sally was doing. It's the past tense of go. So that is how we know that all right this sentence is talking about Sally. So when we're having conversations with people we have to be careful to understand what we're saying. When you're trying to talk about yourself that means you are the subject in that sentence. I will sleep really late this night. That means you are the one that is going to sleep. You are the subject. You are the one doing what the verb says. So for this class we're going to pay attention to several sentences and the way they're being constructed. That will be our walk activity but that is later on towards the end of the class. Let's get started. Yay! I hope you're excited. This is one of my favorite topics because it's really what we use for our day-to-day life. So many times people travel and so many times also we travel. So this is very important. Okay now we have traveling. Remember that travel is a verb. It's a word that can be done. So when we add ing to the word traveling it becomes a doing word that is done at the moment. That means we're doing it at the moment. Now a common synonym for travel is make one's way. Now I would explain this. We have a sentence here. My friends and I enjoy traveling. Our first trip would be to the United States where we would make our way to the New York City. Kindly wish us a safe and pleasant journey. Now I want you to take a look at how we used these two words that almost mean the same thing to make a sentence. Because remember when we use a word repeatedly in a sentence it tends to become boring and seem less interesting. But when we use different vocabularies or we use different variety of words then it seems more interesting and exciting. So make our way. We made our way to the park. Most times make a way yes it means going somewhere. It doesn't necessarily have to mean that the place is really far unlike travel. But it could be used in the same context. I made my way to England after I finished my studies in the USA. She made her way to the airport in order to catch a flight to France. This is how we use these words to make sentences. Now before we go to the next slide I would like you to take a moment to use traveling and I made my way or if you want to talk about more than one person you say we made our way. I would like you to use these two words travel yeah the word and the phrase make our way or made my way. I would like you to use this to make a sentence and I would like you to practice using it to make sentences very much. All right all done good job let's proceed. All right so now that we're done making sentences with traveling and making our way let's try out some free conversations. I know I can't hear you but I'm going to act like I do. The first question I have for you is how do you get from your house to work? Think about that question for some time. How do you get from your house to work? All right for me I take a bus. I take a bus from my house to my workplace. Now yes it might look like such a short distance but it could be travel it could be referred to as travel especially if your workplace is quite far from your house. All right so your turn how do you get from your house to work? There are several ways we can move from one place to another. There are several means of transportation. It could be by bus with our personal cars by scooter or sometimes even by train. So all you simply need to do is I get to work by dot dot dot. Now that could be I get to work by car. I get to work by scooter. I get to work by train. Before we move to the next question please I want you to practice this. Pause this video and practice. The next question is do you drive yourself to school? This is a simple question that needs a yes or no answer but remember it's always very professional. It's always very formal not just to answer your question with a word instead of yes I do. Instead of yes just yes or just no you could say yes I do or yes I drive myself to school or no I don't. No I don't drive myself to school. And then the last question is what is the easiest way to get around in your neighborhood? Maybe you live in a neighborhood that has a lot of things going on in it. A neighborhood that has a lot of exciting places. A neighborhood that is very busy. Now remember that a neighborhood is a place that is next to your house. The places that are next to your house. So next to your house in the same streets that your house is. You could have stores, restaurants, a hospital, banks, schools as long as they are within the vicinity that your house is in that is your neighborhood. So now how do you go from your house to probably a park that is next to your house? How do you do that? What's the easiest way for you? For me in my neighborhood I take a walk. I have a school in my neighborhood and I have a bank in my neighborhood. I simply take a walk. How about you? How do you get around? All right the answer to this question would be I get around by foot. That's if you walk around. I ride a bicycle to get around my neighborhood. Or I drive my car to get around my neighborhood. Now that is how to make this sentence. That is how to answer this question. Remember who you want the subject to be in this sentence. Are you talking about yourself? Yes you should talk about yourself because this question is asking about you. So the subject still should be you. But let's say what if we ask what is the easiest way for your mom to get around? Now the subject when you're answering the question should be my mom gets around our neighborhood by foot. My mom easily gets around our neighborhood by driving her car. Now the answer has changed. How did it change? The subject went from you to your mom because the question changed. We're asking about your mom. This is the way to answer this question. You're doing a good job. Let's move on to the next slide. Now let's talk about what we need for the journey. Let's say we have a trip or we want to go on a vacation. How do we say oh I want this. I have to travel with this. An example of a sentence here is Susan, Emily and I ensured that we packed only the things we needed for the trip so we don't get charged for excess luggage. Now what are the things you park when you are traveling? What are the things you put in your luggage? Think of those personal things. It could be a toothbrush, your hairbrush, your towels, your hats, your coats, your shoes. These are things we put in our suitcases. These are things we put in our bags and a collective name for suitcases, bags, luggage. So simply put luggage. Now this is an example of a way to use luggage in a sentence. His luggage seemed to look too heavy. A luggage can be a subject in a sentence because it is a name of a thing. It's a noun. So we can use a luggage as a subject not a verb because it is not a doing word. We can't do luggage but we can use it. We can carry it. We can put our things in it. Now that's a way to use luggage to make a sentence. Getting gifts. Now I really love to get gifts. I hope you do too. So most times when people travel they like to get feeds, gifts, presents for their loved ones, for their friends, for their colleagues at work and those gifts could be called souvenirs because those gifts always serve as a reminder to those people of when you travel to another country or to another city and it also reminds them of you. Oh I got this from my colleague. Oh I got that this from my brother. Now we have some sentences. I just remembered I bought a model of the Eiffel Tower as a souvenir for my last trip to Paris. The French people will say Paris. So yes that serves as a souvenir that serves as a reminder of when he or she traveled to Paris. So have you traveled to a country before or to another city and you got something that always reminds you? I would like you to use that as a sentence. Say I got this from the place you went to or this is my souvenir from the city or the country you went to. Did you do that? Good job. Another example is Stephanie decided that she would get a souvenir for her best friend Maureen while she was in Hawaii. All right. Stephanie decided that she would get a souvenir for her best friend Maureen while she was in Hawaii. So I want you to take a moment and think has any of your friends or family members has anyone ever gotten you something from a trip? I would like you to use that and make a sentence. I would like you to make a sentence that is similar to this example. Did you do that? Did you do it? Great job. Now we understand what a souvenir is. Let's move on to the next slide. Airport. We already talked about what an airport is at the beginning of the class. Now a common synonym for airport is air station. You could say airport. You could still call it an air station. An example we have here is in order for us to have ample time to weigh our luggage we had to be punctual to the airport. Now someone might ask what is to have ample time. That means you wanted to arrive to where you're going to on time. You wanted to be there quickly. So you can use the phrase ample time. I want to go to school. I need to have ample time to do my homework when I get home. She had ample time to make breakfast when she woke up in the morning. That's a new word and I want you to also use it in your daily conversation. Instead of just saying I had enough time. That's basic. You can add this to your vocabulary. Alright so yes at the airport we get to weigh our luggage to find out if it's too heavy or maybe not so heavy. Just the proper size we need. Another example is Susan asked Emily to cut the lady at the air station some slack. So we know that at the airport we have people that walk there. This example is based off of probably the lady wasn't doing her job so well maybe because she was tired. So when you say cut some slack just have mercy. Be kind. You don't know what she's going through. You don't know what she's going through. Okay so yes we have people that work at the air station. People that help us at the airport. Air station, airport they mean the same thing. So I'd like you to use airport to make a sentence. Great job. Great job. Now let's talk about things we can do at the airport. That's while we wait for our airplane to come pick us to where we're going to. What are the things we can do at the airport or what do we do when we get to the airport? I want you to take a moment and think of the things you do. Now let's try to fix all of those things into sentences. Some examples I have here are people can park their cars in a large parking lot at the airport. Now let's say there was no one to drive you to the airport. This could happen and you were in a hurry. You didn't have time to get a taxi or to get an Uber. You quickly drove yourself to the airport. You could park your car at the parking lot. We have the place we call the parking lot where cars are kept while the owners go about their day-to-day activity. Now although that might come with some extra charges, I presume that we all do that. But this is a sentence about things we do at the airport. It's an example. When they came back from their journey, they can get into their cars. Remember the cars we left at the airport. When you get back from your journey, you can get back into your car and go back to your house. Now have you traveled by air before? Have you had to park your car at the airport? I would like you to make a sentence with this. I parked my car at the airport before I continued my journey. This is one way to explain the situation. We are still talking about things we can do at the airport. We want to talk about so many things so you can have a lot of options. A wide range of conversations and discussion surrounding this topic. Now at the airport, people can take the shuttle bus from the parking lot to the main building at the airport. At the airport, we have those small buses. We call them shuttle bus. That is what a person can take from the main building to where the person gets on the plane. People need to provide their ID cards when they get their tickets. So remember that before we get our tickets, that's what will show that we have paid to be on the plane. We have to present our ID cards. Now this can include your driver's license, your international passport or any form of ID card probably from work or any other valid place. Okay and then their luggage will be weighed to see how heavy it is. Now we get to see the two words we talked about, luggage and weigh. Before getting into the plane, both people and their luggage need to be checked for everyone's safety. I want you to take a moment to think about what happened when you traveled by air. Try and see if these listed things occurred and if they did, I want you to use them to build sentences around your experience. Now that's going to be our homework for this class. I want you to use these sentences we've made and these discussions we've had to build sentences, to build somewhat like a comprehension about your own experience There are many things to do while waiting to board the plane. That is while waiting to get into the plane. Some people eat food or buy clothes and souvenirs. Others may rest near the boarding gates. Now while we wait to board our planes, while you were waiting to board your plane, what did you do? What did you do while you waited? Did you do some of these things or did you do something different? Please, I would like you to include this into the comprehension, into the composition that you're going to make about your experience at the airport. That is it for things that can be done at the airport. Now remember that there might be other things people do. These are just examples. These are just a few examples of what can be done at the airport. It's question time! Questions. Now that we've talked about things that are done at the airport, what we get to see, I want us to answer a few questions. The first question is where can people park their cars? Try to answer this with your own sentence. Don't wait for my answer. Where can people park their cars? The next question is what can you do inside the airport? This is of course while you wait to board your plane. What can you do? The Remember that it's better to answer your questions with full sentences. Have you ever been to an airport before? I'd like you to talk about what you saw at the airport. What did you see when you were at the airport? I want us to build a conversation around these questions. Take a moment and do all of these things. All right, let's move on to the next slide. These are ways that we can answer our questions. Where can people park their cars? People can park their cars in the parking lot. What can you do inside the airport? I can eat or buy souvenirs inside the airport. Have you ever been to an airport? Yes, I have. That's if you've been to the airport or no, I haven't. That's if you have not been to an airport. Now the last question or the last sentence. Talk about what you saw at the airport. I will leave that to you. You could tell us you saw stores. What were the things you saw at the airport? I don't know but I want you to try to do this. All you need to do is to remember the things you saw at the airport and put them in a sentence and there you have it. You'll have all the answers to your questions. For our next activity, I'd like us to fill in the blanks with the right words. Now we've talked about some words. These were our vocabularies, our keywords. Which one suits the sentence more? Number one says, please don't leave your blank unattended. We have words we can pick from from our word bank. Number two is, he blanked around the country. Number three is, Tom wondered how much his luggage blank. Number four is, Smith got a lovely blank from Ohio. And for number five, the question is, he returned to the blank to find his car alarm going off. Alright, are you done? Let's see if you were right. Okay, great job. If these were your answers then well done. For number one, the answer is luggage. Please don't leave your luggage unattended. Don't leave it unattended. There is no one to take a look at it for you. Maybe you want to use the restroom. Maybe you want to go buy something. Don't leave your luggage unattended. Number two is, he traveled. Here traveled is the verb. He traveled around the country. So that's the right answer. For number three, Tom wondered how much his luggage weighed. How heavy was his luggage? Number four, Smith got a lovely souvenir from Ohio. And number five, he returned to the airport to find his car alarm going off. Great job everybody. Great job. Well done. Alright, you did an amazing job today. Great job. Please remember to keep practicing. Don't be too hard on yourself. You can listen to this over and over again. Well done everybody. Goodbye.