Opinions on Travel Vocabulary with Collocations

By: Alex Case

Study Area: Vocabulary

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Opinions on travel vocabulary

Choose one of the things below and give your opinion on it (talking about pros and cons, popularity, future predictions, causes, consequences, solutions, etc). Your partner will ask you for more details on your opinions and/ or give their own opinions on the same topic. Discuss as long as you like, then take turns giving opinions on other topics from below.

(disabled/ wheelchair) access/ accessibility
Airbnb
(budget/ no frills/ national carrier) airlines
(regional/ international/ hub) airports
(hotel/ free) amenities
(self-catering/ timeshare) apartments/ flats
B&Bs
backpacking/ backpackers/ backpacker hostels
(hand/ carry-on/ oversize/ check-in/ lost) baggage/ luggage
baggage reclaim (carousels)
bargaining/ haggling
(sandy/ pebbly/ rocky) beaches
(double/ over-)booking
border(check/ controls/ guard)s
(local/ shuttle/ long-distance/ open-topped/ tour/ hop-on-hop-off/ night/ highway) buses
bus stations/ coach stations
business class/ first class
(black/ radio/ shared) cabs/ taxis/ Uber
cabin crew
(log) cabins/ (beach) huts
cable cars/ funiculars/ funicular railways
camper vans/ caravans
campsites/ camping/ glamping
cancellation/ cancellation charges
(hire/ renta-)car/ driving (on the other side of the road)
charges/ costs/ fares/ fees/ bills
check-in (clerk/ desk)
(late) checkout
churches/ cathedrals/ mosques/ shrines/ synagogues/ temples
communication (phrasebooks, interpreters, language apps, etc)
compensation/ (full/ partial) refunds
(dealing with/ making) complaints
(holiday/ thatched) cottages
(street/ violent) crime (pickpocketing, bag snatching, mugging, etc)
(Mediterranean/ Caribbean) cruises/ cruise ships
customs (officer/ inspection/ rules)
delays
departure (lounge)/ take off
duty free (shops/ shopping/ limits)
eco-tourism (safaris, birdwatching, etc)
(premium) economy class/ coach (class)
e-tickets
(historical) enactments
(on-board) entertainment (in-flight movies, etc)
(foreign) exchange (bureaus)
(car) ferries
final call
(budget/ domestic/ international/ connecting/ direct/ indirect) flights
food poisoning/ dodgy stomachs (Delhi belly, etc)
fraud (rip offs, false advertising, etc)
(modern art/ contemporary art) galleries
guidebooks (Lonely Planet, Rough Guide, etc)
(tour/ official/ volunteer) guides
hiking/ trekking
hitchhiking/ hitchikers
historic quarters
holding pattern
(adventure/ beach/ domestic/ family/ overseas/ public/ winter sun/ package) holidays
(holiday/ mobile/ second) homes
homestays/ host families
(youth) hostels
(two-star/ three-star/ four-star/ five-star/ luxury/ capsule/ resort) hotels
(historic/ haunted) houses
immigration (officers/ policies/ restrictions)
(health/ travel) insurance
(avoiding/ recovering from) jet lag
(forced/ bumpy/ emergency) landing
(antiques/ fish/ flea/ flower/ farmers/ street/ night/ Sunday) markets
mini-bar
(local history/ ethnographical/ science/ natural history/ anthropological) museums
(construction/ traffic) noise/ noisy
overcharging
(royal) palaces
(Lord Mayor’s/ carnival/ Easter/ gay pride) parade
(free/ valet) parking
(amusement/ theme) parks
pests (bugs such as mosquitoes, etc)
pilgrims/ pilgrimages/ pilgrimage sites
(cycle) rickshaws/ tuk tuks
(single/ double/ twin/ adjoining) rooms
(ancient/ castle) ruins
sailing/ yachting
(aisle/ window) seats
security (guards/ checks)
(car/ home/ sea/ travel) sickness
sightseeing (spots)
skiing (lodges/ vacations)
sleeper cars/ couchettes
souvenirs/ souvenir shops
(city/ town) squares
(street/ market/ food) stalls
street cars/ trams
subway/ underground/ metro
summer camps
(landing/ airport/ resort/ hot springs/ tourist/ visitor) taxes
(season/ single/ one-way/ return/ round trip/ day return/ contactless) ticket
time difference
tipping
tourist information (counter/ office)
(guided/ package/ study/ factory/ sightseeing) tours
tout(ing)
(bullet/ local/ express/ steam/ commuter/ driverless) trains
transfers/ stopovers
travel agents
traveller’s cheques
(business/ day) trips
turbulence
(business/ free) upgrades
vaccinations/ jabs/ injections
(tourist) visas
waterfronts (riverfronts, canal sides, lakesides, etc)
(good/ bad/ extreme) weather (forecasts)
(long/ three-day) weekends (away)

Share two opinions that you agreed on with the class and see if other groups agree.

Ask about any vocabulary above that you don’t understand, doesn’t seem to be connected to travel, etc, working together to make opinions on it each time.

Travel word formation

Each line below has a problem connected to word formation/ parts of speech (prefixes, compound nouns, etc). Find and correct each mistake, using the plural where possible.

disable access
budgetary airlines
non-frills airlines
national carrying airlines
hub ports
free hotel amenables
self-catered flats
timeshared apartments
beds and breakfasts
backingpacking
hand luggages
carrying-on baggage
losed luggage
sand beaches
doubled booking
overly booking
locality buses
shuttling buses
long-distant buses
buses stations
share taxis
logged cabins
beached huts
camp vans
glamorous camping
cancel charges
train fees
lately checkout
phrasalbooks
language applis
dealing with complains
thatcher cottages
violence crime
pickingpockets
Carib cruise ships
depart lounge
duty freedom limits
birdswatching
premier economy class
on-board entertaining
in-fly movies
foreign exchange bureaucrats
car ferrying
domesticated flights
undirect flights
dodge stomachs
modernist art galleries
contemporarily art galleries
Loneliness Planet
voluntary guides
historical quarters
oversea holidays
winter sunny holidays
mobility homes
secondary homes
hosting families
young hostels
two-starred hotels
haunting houses
immigrate officers
health insurances
emergence landing
nature history museums
trafficking noise
overlycharging
royalty palaces
themed parks
twinned rooms
adjoin rooms
ancient ruined
travelling sickness
sightseer spots
sleeping cars
time different
guide tours
packaged tours
steamed trains
businessman trips
one-day trips
tourism visas
extremity weather
three-days weekends

Check above or as a class.

Travel collocations 1

Without looking above or below, brainstorm as many collocations for the words given as you can by putting words before and/ or after the words which are there. Many collocations not above are also possible.

airlines

airports

amenities

apartments/ flats

baggage/ luggage

beaches

booking

buses

class

cabs/ taxis

cottages

crime

cruise (ship)s

duty free

flights

galleries

holidays

homes

hotels

houses

immigration

insurance

landing

museums

noise

parking

parks

rooms

seats

sickness

squares

tours

trains

trips

upgrades

weather

weekends (away)

Put words below before and after the words above. Some might be able to go in more than one place.

adjoining
adventure
aisle
amusement
bad
beach
black
budget
bullet
bumpy
business
car
Caribbean
carry-on
check-in
city
connecting
construction
day
direct
domestic
double
emergency
ethnography
express
family
first
forced
free
good
guided
hand
haunted
health
highway
historic
holiday
home
hop-on-hop-off
hotel
hub
international
limits
local
local history
long
long-distance
lost
luxury
Mediterranean
mobile
national carrier
natural history
night
no frills
officers
open-topped
over-
overseas
oversize
package
pebbly
policies
radio
regional
restrictions
rocky
sandy
science
sea
second
self-catering
shared
shop(ping/s)
shuttle
single
steam
street
study
summer
thatched
theme
three-day
time share
tour
town
traffic
travel
twin
two-star
valet
violent
window
winter sun

Travel collocations 2

Join words on the left and right below to make collocations, then check above.

wheelchair access/ accessibility
Air BnB
bed and breakfast
back cabin
cabin car
log charge
beach crew
cable hut
camper packing
cancellation van

late check board entertainment
pick class
bag cruise (ship)
Mediterranean/ Caribbean exchange bureau
eco- flight movie
(premium) economy out
e- pocketing
on snatching
in- ticket
foreign tourism

car charging
food ferry
dodgy hostel
historic lag
home palace
youth poisoning
jet quarter
over- spot
royal stay
sightseeing stomach

sleeper agent
street camp
under car
summer car
time difference
travel front
tourist front
water ground
river side
canal side
lake visa

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