Parts of an airport:
| a duty-free shop a shop in an airport where you don't have to pay taxes on the goods you buy a departure lounge the part of an airport where you wait until you get on the plane a gate the place in the airport where you go to get onto your flight a runway the part of an airport, like a road, which planes use when arriving or departing from an airport a control tower the building in an airport which tells planes when it is safe for them to take off and land |
Air travel jobs:
the people who look after passengers during a flight
a pilot
a person who flies a plane
a baggage handler
a person who is responsible for your luggage, after you check-in, and takes it to the plane
an immigration officer
a person who checks your visa and passport when you go into a country
a customs officer
a person who checks you are not trying to bring illegal food, drugs, guns or other items into a country
Things you find on a plane:
the place where the pilots sit to control the plane
a galley
the area on a plane where the cabin crew prepare meals and store duty-free goods etc.
a trolley
a small cupboard with wheels. Cabin crews use trolleys to take food and drink to passengers during a flight
a seatbelt
a safety feature on planes to secure passengers in their seats
an overhead locker
a storage area above passengers' heads in a plane
a tray-table
a small table that is stored in the back of the seat in front of you on a plane
an oxygen mask
a piece of safety equipment which passengers put over their nose and mouth to help them breath if there is an emergency on a plane
hand luggage (uncountable)
small bags or suitcases which passengers carry with them onto the plane
checked baggage/luggage (uncountable)
large suitcases or bags which passengers don't carry with them onto the plane but which are put in the hold (the storage area of a plane)
Verbs about air travel:
| to check in to show your travel documents to the airline staff in the airport so that you can begin your journey to board/to embark to go onto a plane at the beginning of the journey to disembark to get off a plane to take off to start flying in the air to taxi to move a plane slowly along the ground before or after flying to cruise to fly at a steady speed to land to bring a plane down to the ground to fasten/unfasten a seatbelt to secure two parts of your seat-belt together/to untie your seatbelt to approach (the runway) to fly at slow speak towards the runway to declare to give information about goods or money you are bringing into a country |
Vocabulary:
| a standstill: a stop or an end a designated area: a place that is signed for a particular purpose (for example, a designated smoking area) a terminal building: the part of an airport where planes arrive or depart from a message: text information to or from a mobile phone to confiscate: to take something away from someone as a punishment for doing something wrong |
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