Real Easy English: Talking about airports

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1:01Never miss an update from BBC Learning English. Subscribe to the newsletter for free at bbclearningenglish.com. Hi Becker. Hi Neil, how are you? Have you got any trips coming up soon? I have. I'm going to Montinegro, which is exciting. I've never been there before. But it means that I have to go to an airport and I have to fly don't like flying. But we're talking about airports today in this episode of Royal Easy English. We are, but people need to know that to get a transcript and a worksheet for this episode, they need to go to our website, bbclearningenglish.com. Absolutely. So you'll be going to an airport for your holiday. But what happens on airport, Neil? One of the most important things is check in. Now to check in is to officially tell the airline that you're going to fly.

2:03Normally, now we do this online, but you can still check in at the airport, I think. Yes, you can. Yes, so there will be check-in gates. It is very important. It is, because they give you a boarding pass then, don't they? They do. The boarding pass is the document that lets you get on the plane and also tells you what seat that you have on the plane as well. So you've checked in and you've got your boarding pass. What happens next? Well, then you need to go through security. And that's when they check you to make sure you haven't got anything that you shouldn't have on a plane. I hate airport security. Even though I know that I'm not carrying anything that I'm not supposed to have, it still makes me feel a bit stressed. Yeah, I know what you mean. You feel guilty even if you haven't done anything. Exactly.

3:05Yeah, airport security is one of the reasons I don't really enjoy airports. Really? You don't like airports? I don't like airports. I enjoy flying. But yeah, airports can be a bit stressful for me. Well, I'm the exact opposite of you because I quite like airports, but I really don't like flying. What do you like about airports? I think because when you finally get to the airport, it's somebody else's problem for you to travel. So it's my responsibility to get to the airport. But once I'm there, I can relax. Okay. And have you ever been in a situation where you relaxed a bit too much? And almost Mr. Flight? Yes, I have Mr. Flight once, and it was very stressful. I was travelling in Ireland, and I had a flight in Dublin, and I was in a different city in

4:10Cork, and I missed the train from Cork to Dublin, and so I couldn't get to the airport on time. So you did miss that flight? I missed it. Oh no. So Becca, have you ever missed a flight? Thankfully no. I haven't missed a flight. I was very close to missing a flight. I was just relaxing. I had travelled from Vietnam, and I was really tired, so I wasn't really listening carefully. Well, they didn't call my name, so I was really stressed trying to find the gate, but luckily I caught it. I think I was the last person to board the plane, and that's always a little bit embarrassing as well. You know what, Becca? I think if you get your name read out on the loudspeaker in an airport, that's really embarrassing, because everyone in the airport is thinking,

5:12who's that person, that person who's going to miss their flight? And you don't want to be that person. Okay, Becca, it's time to recap the vocabulary that we used in this episode, starting with check-in. Check-in is the verb, which means you officially tell the plane company that you plan to get on the plane, and you give them your bags as well. And at the airport, you do this at the check-in desk. Yes, and at the check-in desk, that's where you get your boarding pass, and that's the ticket that you need to get on the plane. And then we heard the expression go through security. If you go through security, you go through that area where they check, make sure you have nothing with you that should not be on a plane. Yes, going through security, my least favourite thing about airports. After security, you wait at the boarding gate, and this is the area that you wait at before you

6:17get on the plane. If you catch a flight, it means you successfully get on the plane and fly somewhere, but if you miss a flight, like I did in Ireland, it means that you were too late to get on the plane. Well, no, that's it for this week's episode of Real Easy English, but we'll be back next week with another episode. Don't forget that you can download a free worksheet on our website, BBCLearningEnglish.com. Bye for now. Bye! It felt like everything I believed in was suddenly collapsing. This is the story of an Islamic boarding school in Indonesia with a dark secret of the school's head teacher. This was someone I respected above anyone else, and the investigation led by students he's trying to silence. This is World of Secrets Catching My Teacher.

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