The Vocabulary Show: Travel ✈️🛥️🛃🚄🎒 Learn 27 words and expressions about travel in 12 minutes!

need for your next trip? Then buckle up, grab your passport and get ready for a

trip around the globe as we take a deep dive into the world of travel vocabulary.

Our first phrase is 'itchy feet'. Now this does not mean that you need to scratch your feet; rather,

it's the feeling of being bored with your current life situation and wanting to travel, to explore,

to try something new. It's that little voice in your head that says, "What if there's more to life

than this? What if I'm missing out on something amazing?" Now, we often use 'itchy feet' with 'get' or

'have'. After two years in the job Carly got itchy feet. So Kali has worked somewhere for two years

and she's getting a little bored, and she starts feeling a strong desire to go somewhere new to

try something different, to travel, to explore. Or we could say 'Muhammad has itchy feet again.'

So this sounds like Muhammad has travelled in the past, he's come back to a normal job,

but he's starting to feel bored and he wants to explore somewhere new. So, if you've got itchy feet,

it might be time to grab your passport and get ready for a new adventure. Now, your passport is

the identification document that you use to enter a new country. Once you have your passport, it's

time to go to the airport and check in. 'Check-in' is when you arrive and register for a flight.

This is also when you hand in your luggage, which is the suitcases and bags that you use to travel.

Now remember, luggage is an uncountable noun. This means it doesn't matter how much luggage we have,

we do not add an 's'. We do not say 'luggages', we say 'three pieces of luggage'. Now that you have

checked in your bags, let's head over to the departure lounge. The 'departure lounge' is the

area where you go and sit and wait for your next flight. It often has food and drinks and

maybe a place where you can buy magazines. When it's time for your flight, the flight attendant

will tell you to go to your gate. The gate is the exit, the doorway, the passage from the airport

to the plane, and often there will be a large number telling you what gate number it is.

Once you've gone to the gate, it is time to get on the flight and take off. Okay, so 'take off' can be a

phrasal verb or a noun. Let's look at the phrasal verb first of all. 'Take off' as a phrasal verb means

'to leave the ground', 'to depart', 'to get off the floor and move into the sky'. Quick example: 'Our

flight is taking off in 30 minutes! We'd better run!' Quick tip: 'take off' is an inseparable phrasal

verb. This means we always keep the words 'take' and 'off' together, and we never put an object in

the middle. So we do not say 'the pilot took the plane off', for example. 'Takeoff' is also a noun, so

you might hear the pilot say "Takeoff will begin in five minutes" or "Please prepare for takeoff."

Okay, you've arrived, you've shown your passport to border control, and you are in the new country.

Congratulations! What's the first thing we should do? Let's drop our bags off at the hotel and go

exploring. 'To drop something or someone off' means 'to take it to a particular place before going

somewhere else'. We use this a lot when travelling, because we often have to put important things like

luggage or passport in the hotel or somewhere safe before we go travelling somewhere else. 'Drop off' is

a separable phrasal verb, meaning we can put objects in the middle or at the end. So we can

say either 'Let's drop off the bags at the hotel', or 'Let's drop the bags off at the hotel'. Now the

type of hotel you are staying at will depend on whether you are travelling on a shoestring budget

or whether you want to splurge out. If you are traveling 'on a shoestring', it means you are

travelling with very little money. So, for example, 'After losing her wallet, Terry was travelling on