Travel Vocabulary
You show this document when you enter another country.
Answer: What is a passport?
Clue: If you "set off", you do this.
Answer: What is start a journey / leave?
Clue: Complete: "I ______ (walk) to the station when I ______ (see) my teacher."
Answer: What is was walking / saw?
Clue: Complete: "When I was younger, I ______ play football every Saturday."
Answer: What is used to / would?
Clue: Complete: "I was ______ to call you, but I forgot."
Answer: What is going?
Clue: You put your clothes in this before going on holiday.
Answer: What is a suitcase?
Clue: If your plane "takes off", it does this.
Answer: What is leaves the ground?
Clue: Which tense describes an action that was happening at a particular moment in the past?
Answer: What is the Past Progressive?
Clue: Complete: "I ______ have long hair, but now I have short hair."
Answer: What is used to?
Clue: What does this sentence mean?
"We were going to travel to Italy, but we changed our plans."
Answer: We intended/planned to travel to Italy, but we didn't.
Clue: This is the place at an airport where you go to get your boarding pass and leave your luggage.
Answer: What is check-in?
Clue: If you "check in" at a hotel, you do this.
Answer: What is register/arrive and get your room?
Clue: Complete: "While we ______ (wait) for the bus, it ______ (start) to rain."
Answer: What is were waiting / started?
Clue: Which is correct?
A. I would have a dog when I was a child.
B. I used to have a dog when I was a child.
Answer: What is B?
Clue: Complete:
"She ______ going to buy a new suitcase, but it was too expensive."
Answer: What is was?
Clue: A journey by plane from one place to another is called this.
Answer: What is a flight?
Clue: Complete the expression: "We're going to be late, so we'd better ______!"
Answer: What is hit the road?
Clue: Choose the correct sentence:
A. I watched TV when Mum called me.
B. I was watching TV when Mum called me.
Answer: What is B?
Clue: Explain the difference:
"I used to live in London."
"I would visit London every summer."
Answer: "Used to" describes a past state or habit; "would" describes repeated past actions.
Clue: Change this sentence to show a past intention:
"I plan to visit Paris, but I didn't go."
Answer: "I was going to visit Paris, but I didn't go."
Clue: You stay here when you're travelling and don't want to stay in a hotel — it could be a tent, caravan or cabin.
Answer: What is accommodation?
Clue: If someone says, "I got lost, but luckily I bumped into an old friend," what does bumped into mean?
Answer: What is met someone unexpectedly?
Clue: Correct this sentence:
"While I drove to the airport, my friends were talking about our holiday."
Answer: What is "While I was driving to the airport, my friends were talking about our holiday."
Clue: Find the mistake:
"When I was young, I would be very shy."
Answer: "Would" isn't normally used for past states.
Better: "When I was young, I used to be very shy."
Clue: Your friend says:
"I was going to take the train, but then I found out it was cancelled."
What happened first, and what happened later?
Answer: First, the friend intended/planned to take the train. Later, they found out it was cancelled.