Travel English Buying Tickets 5 Advanced Expressions

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vanessa calm do you want to go to the

zoo let’s talk about it

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welcome to the sixth and final video in

this Travel Survival Series if you’re

traveling to an english-speaking country

or to any country where you’re going to

need to speak English this series should

be useful for you to help you know what

to say

in the main situations that you’re going

to encounter hotels airports

transportation and today’s topic as well

so if you want to remember all these

expressions and review them I’ve made a

gift for you it’s a free PDF guide that

includes all of the expressions from

this series there are six different

situations and five expressions for each

situation so I hope that these 30

expressions will help you to really use

English confidently and naturally while

you’re traveling you can download this

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it out keep it on your phone put it

under your pillow and memorize it use it

as much as you can let’s talk about

today’s topic take a look at this video

and try to guess which situation which

travel situation are we going to talk

about in this video what do you think

you guessed that today’s topic is

getting tickets

if you guessed this congratulations

we’re going to talk about getting

tickets for different kind of events or

attractions because when you go to a new

location you’re probably going to do

some sightseeing

going to museums or gardens or other

places where you need to buy tickets and

different things might happen so let’s

talk about five expressions and five

situations where you can really use

English naturally the first expression

is clear and simple I’d like to get four

tickets for the zoo please I’d like to

get four tickets to the zoo please great

I’d like to get you can say this when

you go to the window you can say this on

the phone you can do a reservation to

get tickets in some situations so you

can say I’d like to get beautiful clear

and simple let’s imagine that you want

to go to an awesome concert when you’re

visiting LA your favorite group is going

to be playing and you are so excited you

want to go see them and you go to the

place where they’re going to play the

concert hall the theater the arena and

the person at the ticket counter says

I’m sorry we are fully booked I’m sorry

the concert is full this means you’re

too late you can’t get tickets so make

sure that you understand this expression

the concert is fully booked the concert

is full but what can you do in this

situation you still have a little chance

not much of a chance but you can still

try you can say oh I didn’t know that I

needed to buy tickets in advance oh I

didn’t know that I needed a reservation

can I get on the waiting list can I get

on the waiting list maybe there will be

a waiting list depending on the event

not all events have a waiting list but

it’s worth trying

you can ask can I get on the waiting

list so because you were disappointed

about the concert tickets

the next night you decide to do

something a little smarter

so for expression number three you’re

going to ask do I need to buy tickets in

advance maybe you want to go see a cool

magician why not okay so you’re going to

call the location or you can go to that

spot if you’re nearby and you can say do

I need to buy tickets in advance or can

I just walk up and buy them do I need to

buy tickets in advance or can I just

walk up and buy them and usually they’ll

be pretty honest about you can

walk up and buy them there might be some

left but you should probably buy them in

advance they’ll let you know the

situation depending on the event how

many people love magicians so make sure

that you ask this in advance maybe

you’re not going to go see a concert

you’re not going to go see a magician

you’re going to go to an amusement park

and you’re super excited to ride some of

the world’s biggest and fastest

rollercoasters but you realize that a

lot of other people are also excited

about riding these rollercoasters so in

advance you call and you say is there

any way to skip the line is there any

way to jump the line and this means do I

have to wait is there any way to go to

the front of the line some places will

have an option where you can skip the

line in some places will say sorry you

have to wait they might say oh yes you

can buy a Fast Pass but it’s going to

cost 20 extra dollars per ticket you can

buy a Fast Pass but it’s going to cost

extra they’ll let you know the situation

but I want to make sure you can

correctly ask and you can correctly

understand their answers all right so

you have tickets for the amusement park

and then you get a call from the concert

and the person at the ticket counter at

the concert found a way to get you into

the concert you were on the waiting list

and it was successful you got into the

concert so what can you do with your

tickets for the amusement park you don’t

want to waste your money you’re kind of

sad that you can’t ride the roller

coasters but you’re glad you can go to

the concert so what should you do with

those tickets well you’re going to want

to ask something to the ticket counter

at the amusement park you’ll want to

tell them we bought tickets for tomorrow

but we’re not going to be able to go can

we return them we bought tickets for

tomorrow

but we’re not gonna be able to go can we

return them and they’ll let you know yes

no maybe

a million dollars and yes they’ll let

you know the situation but this is a

really good question to ask can I return

them in some places you can in some

places you can’t so please ask instead

of just wasting your money and not going

ask them use English feel confident so

now it’s your turn to use these

expressions in the comments below this

video use the expressions from today’s

video and also if you have any other

expressions that are useful for buying

tickets returning tickets getting

tickets to an event write them in the

comments and we can learn with each

other because this is a good way to

learn from each other’s experiences five

expressions is good but there are plenty

of others that you can learn so feel

free to learn from each other and let’s

enjoy our travels thanks so much for

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