Name: 50 Important English TRAVEL Phrases
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Hi, I'm Vanessa from SpeakEnglishWithVanessa.com.  Let's travel together.  

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Do you like to travel? Do you wish that you  could travel more? Well, if you have ever  

visited another country, you know that English  is essential or at least very helpful when you  

travel. So, I have some good news. Today, you are  going to learn 50 important phrases for travel.  

You'll learn how to plan for a trip, how to talk  about directions and transportation, how to talk  

at the airport and at a hotel. And finally, how  to tell someone about a trip that you just took. 

I know that 50 expressions is a lot. So, to  help you, I've created a free PDF worksheet  

that you can download with the link in the  description. Never forget what you've learned,  

review everything and answer Vanessa's Challenge  question at the end of the PDF worksheet. 

Let's get started with how to  plan or book a trip in English.  

Where would you like to go? Excellent starter  question. Where would you like to go? Also,  

you can answer this by saying, "I've never been  to Rio de Janeiro. I've never been to Rome.  

I've never been to Tokyo." Excellent phrase. "We should book tickets now." This verb, to book,  

means to reserve. We're not talking about  something that you read. This is the noun,  

a book. This is talking about reserving something.  "We should book tickets now because it's a  

popular destination, so let's book tickets." "I hate making plans. Let's just do something  

spur of the moment." Spur of the moment  means without plan, something spontaneous.  

Well, you need to book tickets to go to another  country, but maybe when you get there, you don't  

want to have every hour planned. You like to do  things spur of the moment. "Oh, there's a great  

park. Let's go there. Oh, that's a cool museum.  Let's go there." This is spur of the moment. 

A similar phrase you can use is, "We decided  that we'll just go wherever the wind blows us."  

Maybe the wind will blow me to that museum.  Maybe the wind will blow me to that restaurant.  

I don't know. This has the same idea as spur of  the moment. It's not planned. It's spontaneous. 

Maybe you are the opposite kind of person. You  might say, "We need to make a reservation."  

This is a great phrase to know: to make a  reservation. You can make a reservation at a  

popular restaurant, you can make a reservation  at a hotel, you can make a reservation for a  

seat at a concert. There's a lot of different  things that you can make a reservation for. 

When you go to a museum or somewhere similar,  you might ask, "Do you have an audio guide?  

Do you have an audio guide?" This is actually a  great way to improve your English. Because if you  

listen to an audio guide in English,  as you're walking around the museum,  

I bet you are going to learn a ton of new  vocabulary, some great expressions for describing  

what you're seeing. This is an excellent way to  enjoy something, but also learn some English.  

You can ask, "Do you have an audio guide?" When you go somewhere, you can ask, "Do you  

accept cash or credit card? Do you accept cash or  credit card?" Depending on the country you're in,  

they might prefer one option instead of the other.  And we often use the word cash to talk about  

physical dollar bills or the physical  money of the place that you're visiting.  

"Do you accept cash or credit card? Because I only  have a credit card. I don't have any cash with me.  

If you need cash, then I got to come back." You might ask, "What are the hours for the  

museum? What are the hours for the tour? What are  the hours for some kind of event or place?" It's  

a great question to ask, "When are you open?" What  are the hours for something that you want to see? 

Our final question under this first category of  planning or booking your vacation is an excellent  

question, "What should I pack for? What should  I pack for?" Well, of course, for vacation. Now,  

this question has another meaning. It means I  want to know what kind of activities we'll do,  

what the weather is going to be. I want  to know, do I need to pack a swimsuit?  

Do I need to pack a winter coat? What should I  pack for? That means what should I prepare for? 

This is really helpful as you're trying to  fit everything inside your small suitcase,  

this always happens to me, and you really need  to decide, "Okay, what do I need to pack four?  

Okay, I don't need three winter sweaters.  It's probably going to be not too cold.  

I'll just bring something else." You  can ask, "What do I need to pack for?" 

The next phrases have to do with transportation  and directions. I want to help you not be lost in  

a foreign place with no words to say to help  yourself. So, let's talk about 10 important  

phrases for transportation and directions. The first one is a great question. You can  

ask someone else or they might ask you,  if you look really lost, you might hear,  

"Where are you headed?" This is often reduced to  simply, "Where ya headed?" We cut out the verb  

are and we reduced you to ya, "Where ya headed?  Where are you headed?" If you look really lost,  

someone might say, "Hey, where ya headed?  Can I help you?" This great verb, to head,  

means the direction that you're going in.  So, you're going somewhere. "I'm headed to  

the store. I'm headed to the doctor's office.  I'm headed to the metro station. Where is it?" 

So, someone might ask you, "Where ya headed?"  Or, if you see someone who's lost, you can ask  

this too, "Excuse me. Can you tell me how to  get to the metro station? Excuse me, can you  

tell me how to get to the subway station?" It's  great to introduce a lot of these questions with,  

"Excuse me," because you're interrupting someone  else and really it is the easiest way to be polite  

in a simple way. "Excuse me, can you tell me how  to get to the subway station? Excuse me, can you  

tell me how to get to the museum?" To wherever  you'd like to go. "Excuse me, how far is it to the  

airport? Excuse me, how far is it to the airport?" You might ask this to your bus driver as you're  

getting on the bus to go to the airport and you're  worried about missing your flight. You'd want to  

know, is it going to take 30 minutes? Is it going  to take two hours? Is it going to take 10 minutes?  

"Excuse me, how far is it to the  airport?" And then they'll tell you,  

"Oh, don't worry. It's just going to take  10 minutes. We'll be there pretty soon." 

I don't know about you, but I have had many  experiences looking for a bus stop and being  

so lost. Sometimes bus stops are not obvious. It's  just a little sign or maybe it's just a pole and  

everyone knows where you should go, except  for you because you're not from that area.  

So, this is a great question. You can ask,  "Excuse me, which way to the bus stop?  

Excuse me, which way to the bus stop?  This way, that way, over here, back  

there?" "Excuse me, which way to the bus stop?" "Excuse me, where's the closest ATM?" This phrase,  

ATM, stands for Automated Teller Machine. And it's  just that machine, some other countries call these  

cash points where you can put your debit card  or credit card into the machine and you can get  

cash. So, if you happen to go to a store  that requires cash, but you have no cash,  

you can ask this question, "Oh, do you  know where's the closest ATM?" "Excuse me,  

where's the closest ATM. I need to get some cash."  Great question. And the word ATM is most commonly  

used in the US. Some other countries might use  other expressions, but if you're visiting the US,  

ATM is an excellent word to use. Are you hungry? You can ask,  

"Is there a grocery store nearby? I don't  want to go to another expensive restaurant.  

I just want to get some simple food that I can  cook back at my place. Is there a grocery store  

nearby?" Notice the pronunciation of this  word. There's two pronunciations. Actually,  

you can say grocery, grocery with an S, grocery.  But you're more likely to hear, at least that's  

what I say, you're more likely to hear it grocery,  like an SH. Grocery, grocery, grocery store.  

"Is there a grocery store nearby?" Great question. "When is the next train? When's the next train?"  

If the board with all of the train information is  so confusing, just ask someone, "Excuse me, when's  

the next train?" Great. If still confused, you can  ask, "When does the next... leave? When does the  

next bus leave? When does the next train leave?  When does the next flight leave? I need to go  

now." When does the next... leave? Great question. Will the departure be on time? Maybe you come from  

a country where things are always on time and  you expect it to be on time, but you realize  

in the country that you're in right now,  things are not on time or maybe the opposite  

and you need to know, "Excuse me, will the  departure be on time?" That's important. 

Our final phrase for transportation and directions  is actually kind of a two for one. Let's imagine  

that you're in a taxi, sometimes we call those a  cab, and you're at your destination, but maybe the  

taxi driver is looking for, "Oh, where should I  drop them?" You can use this phrase, "You can drop  

me here. You can drop me here." It doesn't mean  that they're holding you and dropping you. This is  

shortened from, "Drop me off." To drop off someone  means that you're driving them and they leave.  