Travel Vocabulary & Roleplays

Travel vocabulary and roleplays

Choose situations from below and roleplay the whole conversation from beginning to end.

 

Phoning a hotel – book one double room, one single room and one twin room

 

Phoning a hotel – change your booking

 

Phoning a hotel – ask about meeting rooms

 

In a hotel – ask the doorman if you should take a bus or taxi to the city centre (= downtown)

 

In a hotel – you need internet access, so ask the receptionist for the password for the Wi-Fi

 

In a hotel – ask the receptionist to recommend where to do some shopping

 

In a hotel – check out, paying for what you have used in the minibar

 

In a hotel – phone reception from your room and ask for an alarm call

 

In a hotel – you arrive before check-in time

 

In a hotel – you have booked a room, but want to change it a bit when you arrive

 

In a hotel – you need a room, but haven’t booked one before you arrive

 

In a hotel – you think you have reserved a room, but the hotel doesn’t have a booking for you

 

In a hotel – ask about the details of using the hotel indoor pool

 

In a hotel – when you try to use your credit card to check out it has already passed its expiry date

 

At a railway station – ask another passenger if you are on the right platform for London – you aren’t

 

At a railway station – buy a single ticket (= one way ticket) for one person and a return ticket (= round trip ticket) for the second person

 

At a railway station – the next train is in ten minutes but that is too soon for you, so buy a ticket for the one after that

 

Phoning a travel agent – ask about travelling to Phuket – there aren’t any direct flights

 

At an airport – buy some duty free goods, showing your boarding pass

 

At an airport – check in, asking for an aisle seat

 

At an airport – when you go through security they find scissors and hand cream in your hand luggage

 

At an airport – you are queuing at the check-in desk but your flight leaves in 40 minutes

 

At an airport – you go to collect your luggage but isn’t on the baggage reclaim carousel

 

At an airport – you have three pieces of check-in luggage but are only allowed one

 

At an airport – you hear final call for your flight and rush to your gate

 

At an airport – you want to take your double bass on the plane as hand luggage when you check in

 

At an airport – go through passport control

 

Before getting into a taxi – ask about using the taxi for a sightseeing tour

 

In a taxi – you want to go to the business district, but you are not sure exactly where

 

In a taxi – when you arrive at your destination check which direction to walk from the taxi to the café in the park, and ask for a receipt

 

On a plane – the meal includes bacon and you can’t eat pork

 

On a plane – you can’t fasten your seatbelt

 

On a plane – you want to watch an in-flight movie but you can’t make the entertainment system work

 

Ask about any vocabulary you aren’t sure of, etc above, discussing what to say in each situation each time.

 

Travel collocations

Without looking above, put the words on the left and right of the same section together to make common collocations related to travel

1. aisle                                          pass
2. alarm                                        destination
3. arrive at                                    your call
4. baggage                                    reclaim
5. boarding                                    seat
6. book                                         a room
7. business                                    district
8. check                                        desk
9. check-in                                     room
10. check-in                                     out
11. check-in                                     luggage
12. direct                                         man
13. do                                              some shopping
14. door                                           flight
15. double                                        goods
16. duty free                                     time
17. expiry                                         date

 

 

18. fasten                                         call
19. final                                            your seatbelt
20. go through                                   security
21. hand                                            luggage
22. in-flight                                        control
23. indoor                                          access
24. internet                                        pool
25. meeting                                        room
26. mini                                              room
27. passport                                        movie
28. return                                            tour
29. sightseeing                                     ticket
30. single                                             room
31. single                                             luggage
32. take                                               platform
33. the right                                         a bus
34. three pieces of                                ticket
35. twin                                               bar

Set up similar situations using the vocabulary above and roleplay them. 

Set up similar situations connected to hotels, railway stations, airports, and planes.

Brainstorm more vocabulary connected to those places.