How to Make Travel Plans Basic English Phrases

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how to make travel plans how to make

travel plans is today’s topic so I

mentioned before

sorry I’ll talk a little more slowly now

I mentioned before we’re gonna talk

about three main things today three kind

of main categories we’re going to talk

about expressions for making your plans

we’re gonna talk about how to change

your plans and then we’re gonna talk

about cancelling them as well so those

three things and I’m gonna focus a lot

on some vocabulary that you can use to

sound a bit more natural we’ll also do a

quick grammar review kind of in the

middle of today’s lesson too so we have

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so let’s begin with the first part of

today’s lesson please the first part of

today’s lesson is going to be about

booking so booking means making your

reservations let me just scroll down in

my notes here okey-dokey

so let’s begin with the first part of

today’s lesson which is making a

reservation so I just used the word

I just used the word booking so this is

a key vocabulary word for today to book

so to book so I know you guys probably

all know the noun like book something

you read but to book to book means to

reserve to reserve and at least in

American English we use the word book a

lot more than we use reserve reserve

sounds more formal than book so when

make a reservation when we make like a

reservation for a flight a reservation

for a hotel for an activity a restaurant

whatever you can use the verb booked

booked so um we’ll see a couple so I

kind of made some example sentences to

show you how we use these expressions so

the first one the first one that uses

the word book as a verb we’ll see in

just a second this is yeah can we see

that one that’s perfect perfect okay so

here we can see it I need to book my

flight I need to book my flight so this

is when you’re making travel plans

you’re preparing for travel at this

phase I need to I need to book my flight

I need to book my flight so here we have

a book which I mentioned means reserved

I need to reserve my flight need to if

you like you can change this to I have

to I have to book my flight that’s also

okay to use so book this will be a key

vocabulary word for today okay then the

past tense of book is booked so I’ll

just write it here in parenthesis booked

is the past tense so after you make your

reservation after you’ve completed that

you can use the past tense booked to

describe that I’m gonna move sorry I’m

gonna move the mic so I can’t see my

notes okay

so oh yeah we have two examples now

that’s great so I need to book my flight

and I need to book my flight to Italy so

here’s an example of how you can use the

expression with a specific location I

need to book my flight to a location

okay so let’s go on then to the second

pair this if we can see both pairs like

both sentences on screen at the same

time that’d be perfect

so um when you want to explain your

travel plans that you finished making

the reservation you can use this past

tense booked to do that so we’ll see

that ooh in just a second I think

there’s a bunch on the screen right now

all righty yes perfect okay so to use

past tense then after you make the

reservation after you make the

reservation we use this past tense

booked the pronunciation of this is

booked the T sound not booked it but

booked booked so I booked a flight da

hands in YouTube says what does that

mean flight flight means your airplane

travel airplane travel so this sentence

means I reserved airplane travel a seat

on airplane travel from City a to city B

so in this case example I booked a

flight from Tokyo to Venice for example

so this is how we use booked to talk

about our travel plans okay so the next

point when you’re talking about your

travel plans specifically flights and

maybe like buses or trains or whatever

there are a couple of expressions we use

to talk about timeframes for those like

the the travel time travel related

expression so one key word is layover

layover so a layover you might also hear

stopover as well stopover so layover

I’ll also include at your stopover I

think in American English we tend to use

layover a little bit more so layover or

stopover these mean the time between

flights the time between flights so from

the moment your flight arrives in one

city your waiting time is your layover

so you have waiting time and then your

next flight so your time between your

flights is the layover time that’s the

layover time so we’ll see some examples

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time period layover in your city name so

I have a three hour layover in New York

City for example one huge point here

though this part you’ll see three hour

this is singular so don’t use the plural

three hour

I have three outward so why because this

uh right here this is attached to this

noun layover is the noun this right here

is like an adjective three-hour we don’t

use the plural form here we always use

this singular so I have a one hour

layover I have a two-hour layover I have

a five-hour layover in Paris for example

so yes this is this is like when you’re

traveling

yes stopover as I said stopover is the

same stopover and layover are the same

yes so this is the period in between

your travels like in between your

flights or maybe like in between train

travel like from station to station yeah

so this is the expression we use so

please use the singular form here I have

a three hour layover in New York City

for example so these are a couple key

words to talk about your actual planning

for travel and to explain your travel

plans okay good and send some questions

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don’t you use the plural for ours we

don’t as I just said we do not use the

plural form for ours because this is an

adjective this is acting as an adjective

this is modifying this noun right here

when it’s acting as an adjective there’s

no plural form used use the singular

this applies to everything like age or

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sheet checking in at a hotel so of

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today’s lesson yes is about how to make

travel plans how to make travel plans we

just talked about some key expressions

for making your plans we talked about

this keyword to book something and we

talked about the word layover as well so

now we’re going to move on to talking

about reservations like how to make

reservations for things and maybe a

little bit about grammar to use to sue

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okay um all right let’s go on do the

next part hotels hotels and activities

will be the next part so the first part

focused in a lot on transportation

airplane transportation but the next

part is going to be about like hotels

and activities that you do during your

travel so as we talked about for hotels

we can use the same verb I need to book

my hotel is fine to use there then we

can use the same thing for tours so

we’ll see in just a second a couple of

example sentences of how to use book for

tours and for activities so I talked

about using book for flights like I need

to book my flight we can use that for

activities for Jota for hotels as well

so we’ll see this in just a moment

perfect looks good yeah so I included

some for tours and some that are just

for everyday activities so the first

expression up here is I booked a tour of

plus your city and the area you’re

visiting so for example I booked a three

hour again singular I booked a three

hour bicycle tour of London this is true

I did this last number those fun um then

you can also just use it for a simple

activity as well this this is something

you can use even in your hometown now in

your home city right now so I booked a

haircut for example so that’s nice so

this is a really really useful for my

thing so this is something you can use

anymore any reservation you want to make

a book to restaurant it’s good maybe a

really important keyword for today um

good vinícius yes you can use book for a

table at a restaurant yes yes yes yes

okay so with this though with

what we’ve talked about so far here I

want to review some key grammar points

with a few sentences someone is

exploding meeting super me sorry Kyle

okay good so I want to review then so

now we have a couple of key vocabulary

words here I want to review some key

grammar points that you need to use I

think correctly when you’re talking

about your travel plans and you’re

explaining them to people so we’re gonna

talk for Grandma today or for grammar in

this part I’m gonna focus on a couple of

key points and they are simple present

tense simple present tense so this is

for timetables and schedules we use

simple present tense for timetables and

schedules and then we’re also going to

talk about like progressive tense ing at

the end of verse will and won’t and

going to and not going to so this first

point this will be for timetables and

schedules so alright schedules here so

timetables and schedules will use simple

present tense to talk about that I’ll

give you an example in just a moment

this point is going to be for your

future activities future activities so

again I’ll share an example a couple

examples in just a second okay so I made

a sample very short very short itinerary

for this sort of practice so let’s take

a look uh at this part okay so a few

just simple sentences a few just kind of

activities to take a look at this

grammar first part we see my flight

leaves at 12 o’clock my flight leaves

this leaves this is present tense simple

present tense that I just talked about

so my flight leaves to leave gets

conjugated to leaves because my flight

is the subject it my flight leaves at 12

o’clock same thing in the next scent

I arrived in Paris at 4 p.m. the next

day so I arrived so if here arrived

arrived is also in present tense simple

present tense but there’s no s at the

end because the subject is I I arrived

no s at the end of that so next step

will be after I check in at my hotel I’m

going to do a little sightseeing so here

I used going to to talk about a future

plan because I’ve already decided the

plan I’ve already determined what I’m

going to do so I use going to to express

that then then meet a friend at a

restaurant

I booked for dinner so here we have this

key vocabulary word again I’m going to

meet a friend at a restaurant

I booked for dinner perfect so we can

include that there the next day here I

will probably get breakfast at a nearby

cafe so right here is another key

grammar point aisle this is the

contracted form the reduced form of I

will iíll probably so um will as I said

like we’ve talked about will and won’t

in this livestream before you can go

back and check other episodes of this

but will is used for decisions that we

make quickly like in a conversation or

there used will is used to talk about

things we haven’t like officially

decided yet we’re still maybe thinking

about it so here I’ve included aisle but

I added probably so it means like I’m

not 100% sure but there’s a pretty high

chance I’m going to do that thing I’ll

probably do blah blah blah something

like that ok so this is a sample

itinerary we’re using simple present

tense for timetables and then we’re

using the progressive tense ing will

won’t and going to to talk about the

activities in that schedule there’s a

lot of grammar in this actually but this

is quite typical for talking about your

travel plans

so I hope that this is helpful about why

did I say get breakfast and I didn’t say

have breakfast just because I wanted to

like you can use both both are fine both

are fine so the next day I’ll probably

have breakfast at a nearby cafe that’s

fine also so there’s not always just one

correct choice so don’t worry so much

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restaurant

there’s this expression could you I

can’t read backwards

could you please recommend a good

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stuff our book and reserve the same yes

and no yeah book is the same meaning as

reserve but it is more casual reserved

sounds more formal okay alrighty let’s

continue on to the third part for

today’s lesson I’m going to take the

mouse again

all right so the third part of today’s

lesson is going to be about changing

your plans or cancelling your plans so

let’s get into it

oh yeah if you’re just joining yeah

today we are talking about how to make

travel plans also how to break them so

now we’re going to talk about how to

cancel your plans so we’ve talked about

the word booked as a verb but now let’s

look at some different ways to use it so

when you need to cancel a plan you can

use the verb cancel so to cancel a we

can use some of you have already used

this to cancel a booking or to cancel a

reservation so these are the noun forms

of these same expressions to book so to

book as a verb we can make it a noun by

saying booking booking to make reserved

change from a verb to a noun we can use

reservation so I need to cancel my

reservation for example I cancelled my

reservation I canceled my flight perfect

so here we can see this is a sample

pattern how to make this I cancelled

plus some activity some reservation find

I canceled my flight I canceled my hotel

I cancelled the restaurant for example

so use cancelled in the past tense the

pronunciation here is a D sound

cancelled cancelled there so booked has

a T sound canceled

has a D sound there I canceled my flight

I canceled my reservation then when you

need to make a change like you need to

change the time or you need to change

the place or something like that just

use the verb to change so to change a

reservation to change a reservation I

need to change my reservation perfect I

changed here we have I changed the

booking for some reservation so I

changed the booking again booking means

reservation I changed

King for the hotel for example I changed

the booking for the tour as well so

please use the verb change to describe

that okay sometimes to make a change you

need to add people like more people are

coming to the restaurant for example

when you want to change your reservation

so that more people can join you can use

to add people I need to add people to

the reservation so let’s take a look at

an example of this okay I’m going to add

plus the number of people to your

booking I’m going to add two people to

the booking for example I’m so here also

I contracted sorry I’m going to I change

this too I’m gonna the more like a

casual version so in speech we say I’m

gonna or a omona I’m gonna I’m gonna add

two people to the booking so to increase

the number of people please use add I’m

gonna add two people to the booking all

right so these are maybe expressions you

can use for like restaurants or perhaps

hotels I suppose mmm I bought why did I

say booking and I didn’t say booked

again this is the this is the noun form

this is the noun form booking is a noun

to book is a verb this is a grammatical

difference okay

let’s talk now about a couple

expressions you can use for changes on

your flight so there are two expressions

two key words I want to mention for this

part first one is to upgrade to upgrade

so here we see up up like actually like

to move this this direction and then

grade means like level so on a on a

flight there’s typically maybe two

grades two levels there’s the regular

flight and then like the first class or

business level so to upgrade means to

move up to the next level in your flight

so if you say ah yes we’ll see that in

just a second perfect thanks guys I

upgraded to business class I upgraded

this part I upgraded to business class

it means you yourself you chose to move

up to the next level so maybe you paid

for a business class seat however you

see this expression here to get bumped

up to get bumped up this part so to get

bumped up this is something you did not

choose to get bumped up means someone

else probably the staff at the airline

decided to move you into business class

so we use bumped up bumped up this is

like kind of a casual sort of word which

is like a quick like a quic pushing

motion like I got bumped up to business

class so this is generally a happy thing

so you want to get bumped up to business

class however just keep in mind the who

made the decision this is the difference

between these two sentences I upgraded

to business class I decided to do that I

got bumped up to business class I did

not decide to do that someone else did

it I got bumped up okay good good good

good okay

how to book a hotel we talked about

expressions for booking hotels you’ll

have to do that unlike websites I think

probably that will be a little bit

different or you can check maybe some of

the free stuff we talked about earlier

today - oh right but those are kind of

the key vocabulary words I wanted to

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