Top 10 Words for the Airport in English
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hi everybody welcome back to top words
my name is Alisha and today we’re going
to talk about ten words for the airport
let’s go check-in the first word is
check-in check-in so to check-in this is
a verb a phrasal verb to check-in means
to check into your flight to essentially
say yes I am here I’m going to get on
the plane I am checking in we can use
the same expression for hotels actually
to check in to your hotel to check in to
your flight so to check in means to
confirm you are going to fly on the
plane in a sentence check in for
international flights is two hours
before departure immigration the next
word is immigration immigration so this
is passport check essentially when you
are traveling internationally you may
need to well you do need to show your
passport to the immigration staff so
they are checking the people who are
coming and going in and out of the
country that processed that area of the
airport that area may be of border
control as well is called immigration we
call it immigration in a sentence make
sure your passport is ready when you go
to immigration customs the next word is
customs customs is the next word so
customs is the part of the airport or
the international travel experience
where the items you have purchased or
the items you are bringing into the
country may be the amount of cash that
you have on you or in maybe any
dangerous items or any kind of like
specific items that you need to declare
that you need to announce you are
carrying those things are checked that’s
the place in the airport where that sort
of thing is covered so there’s usually
there’s usually a form that you fill out
when you enter a country and they’ll say
do you need to declare anything so to
declare means to announce there’s
something you are carrying or something
you need to explain to the people who
are in the country to the border staff
the customs staff
in the country you are going to so that
whole area of the airport of the travel
experience is called customs customs in
ascendance do you have anything to
declare with customs departure gate the
next expression is departure gate
departure gate so depart means to leave
a place your departure gate is the gauge
the airport gate from which you leave
the airport your departure gate the
place your plane leaves from in the
airport is called your departure gate
your departure gate all right in a
sentence my departure gate is a five
baggage claim okay next one the next
expression is baggage claim
baggage claim so bag or baggage meaning
your luggage your suitcase and claim so
claim means you say that’s mine in other
words to claim something to retrieve
something to pick up something
baggage claim suitcase pickup is
essentially what it means baggage claim
so you might hear baggage claim carousel
so carousel is that that machine that
goes around in a circle and it moves
bags and move suitcases that’s a baggage
claim carousel in the airport baggage
claim in a sentence pick up your luggage
at baggage claim carousel number three
currency exchange the next expression is
currency exchange currency exchange so
currency means type of money currency so
yen is a currency dollar is a currency
euro is a currency type of money and
exchange so for example if you need to
change yen to euro you do it at a
currency exchange location where you can
change your money to a different type of
money so if the country that you’re
coming from has different money than the
country you’re going to which is likely
the case you may need to change your
money at a currency exchange location so
in a sentence I need to stop at a
currency exchange desk boarding pass the
next expression is boarding pass
boarding pass your boarding pass is a
piece of paper or now I suppose we have
them digitally on our smartphones a
boarding pass a boarding pass is the
documentation digital or physical that
shows the flight attendants that shows
the staff from the airline that you are
allowed to get on the plane that you
have a seat you
are allowed to board the plane so
boarding means getting on the plane and
pass means permission so boarding
permission essentially allowed to get on
the plane
paperwork is what you could think of
this as so a boarding pass very
important of course in a sentence do you
have your boarding pass seat assignment
the next expression is seat assignment
seat assignment so seat meaning of the
place where you sit your chair your your
assignment then is the place that the
airline has chosen for you to sit the
seat the airline has chosen for you is
your seat assignment or maybe you chose
your seat assignment but that’s the
place you are supposed to sit on the
airplane in a sentence I’d like to
change my seat assignment first class
business class so the next expression is
first class or business class so these
refer to a couple different levels of
service on an airplane the basic level
of service is called economy service or
we also call it coach coach so coach our
economy is the basic level after that
would be business class which usually
has slightly larger seats maybe a little
bit more delicious food maybe more drink
options for example and then there’s
first class which is the highest level
of service and is also the most
expensive level service so a first class
business class economy class these are
the three levels on an airplane so it’s
typically considered a nice experience
to fly business class or first class is
somewhere in a sentence
are there any seats available in
business class layover
the next word is layover layover a
layover is a period of time between two
flights presumably at an airport so if
you are flying for example from like I
don’t know from Singapore to London
maybe maybe you have to transfer at an
airport you fly from like Singapore to
I don’t know Los Angeles maybe or like
Chicago maybe and then you have to wait
there for your next flight to London
your connecting flight that period of
time between your two flights is called
a layover so typically people want to
have a short layover a fairly short
layover so they have time to transfer to
their next flight or maybe they want to
take a break from being on a plane so a
layover typically a short layover is
good typically long layover ZAR bad but
you might have a cheap flight if that’s
the case so a layover is the period of
time between two flights in a sentence I
have a long layover in Bangkok so those
are 10 words for the airport I hope that
was useful for you of course if there
are some other words or other phrases
that you have heard or that you find
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