Airport Vocabulary - Answers
Airport Vocabulary - Answers
Airport Vocabulary - Answers
Answers
# Verb Meaning
1 To pack To put things that belongs to you (e.g. clothes) into a bag (e.g. a suitcase).
2 To check in To let the airline know you have arrived at the airport.
4 To take off The plane leaves the ground and goes into the air.
To tell a customs officer that you want to take something (such as alcohol, food,
6 To declare
an animal etc.) into their country.
Part 2:
# Thing Meaning
A document that contains all the details of a journey, for example, where
1 An itinerary
and when a flight will take off and land.
2 Luggage Things that a person takes with them when they travel, for example clothes.
6 A visa A document that allows someone to stay in a country for a period of time.
Part 2:
check-in counter
airport security
gate
immigration
baggage claim
customs
Question 2:
a) Which part of a phrasal verb usually has primary stress?
Phrasal verbs
The second word.
Take off
Check in b) Which part usually has secondary stress?
Nouns
Question 3:
Gate a) Which syllable of a noun is usually stressed?
Visa
Luggage Usually (but not always) the first syllable.
Customs
Itinerary b) For nouns that end in tion, which syllable is usually stressed?
o Immigration
o Destination The syllable before tion.
To pack
Problem 1:
When James got to his destination, he unlocked his suitcase using a key
and opened it. He saw that there was nothing inside. He knew that theft
couldnt have been the reason as his suitcase had been locked the whole
time.
Problem 2:
A man named Abdul was arrested by airport police because a bomb was
discovered inside his laptop bag.
Question: Where in the airport do you think the bomb was discovered?
Answer: Airport security. This is where the airport staff checks travellers for dangerous and
illegal items.
Problem 3:
Sam arrived at the airport and wanted to check in for his 8:00pm
flight. He was annoyed to see that there were 50 check-in desks, one
for each airline. He couldnt remember which airline he had booked his
ticket with so he didnt know which desk to go to.
Answer: His itinerary. All of the flight details would have been on it including he airline hed
be flying with.
Problem 4:
Jeab went to the airport at 5:30pm because she was going to fly to
Dubai at 6:00pm. At the airport she found her check-in desk, waited in
a queue and then checked in. She then made her way to airport security
where she waited in a very long queue. Eventually, she got through
security. She ran to her gate, which was quite far from airport
security. When she got there, she was told that the plane had taken off
30 minutes before, so she had missed her flight.
Answer: She arrived at the airport to late. She gave herself only 30 minutes to check in, go
through airport security and get to her gate. She should have arrived at the airport 2
hours before take off.
Answer: She should have checked to see if the cigarettes needed to be declared at customs.
If she wasnt sure, she should have declared them anyway.
Problem 6:
Alex was walking to airport security when a lady stopped her and asked
her for assistance. The lady had a lot of bags and said that it would
be really helpful if Alex could take a big teddy bear through airport
security for her. The lady said that she would meet Alex at her gate
and collect the teddy bear there. Alex thought this sounded a bit
strange but agreed to do it.
Answer: The teddy bear isnt illegal but its possible that there is something illegal inside it. If
Alex takes the teddy bear through security and drugs are found inside it, she will go
to jail, not the lady who gave it to her.
Problem 7:
Max (from America) and his girlfriend Tittiporn (from Thailand) arrived
at New York International Airport. When they got to immigration, Max
showed his passport to the officer and was allowed to pass. Tittiporn
gave the officer her passport, just as Max did. He looked through it
and told her that she couldnt pass because she didnt have a visa. She
was shocked because Max didnt have a visa and didnt have a problem.
Answer: To enter your own country, you usually show your passport to prove that youre from
there and thats it. When entering another country thats not your own, usually you
have to have a visa. Max was an American entering America, so he didnt need a
visa. Tittiporn was a Thai entering America so she needed a visa.
Problem 8:
After Sue arrived at her destination, she went to baggage claim with
the other passengers to collect her luggage. All of the passengers got
their luggage but hers never appeared on the carousel. In the end there
was one bag left which looked like hers but wasnt hers. She got help
from the airport staff who told her that her bag definitely arrived at
the airport and was definitely put on the carousel.
Answer: Its possible that someone who owned a similar bag took hers by mistake and
left theirs behind.