Learn English: Travel Vocabulary

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Hi. James, from EngVid. I was just about to plan my vacation. I'm going to take a long
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flight to Europe. I'm trying to remember luggage and baggage things, you know? It's kind of
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hard to do. But this is a lesson for you if you've been working a lot, you need some time
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off. Now, there's a video I would like you to go check out. That's on time off. It goes
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with this one. You might want to go away somewhere and not just stay home, right? So this video
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is for you. This is basic vocabulary on vacation. When you leave and maybe you go to an English
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speaking country and you want to practice your English, this stuff will be good for
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you to enjoy your time there, also to make it easy for you when you arrive. Are you ready?
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Let's go to the board.
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Mr. E, Mr. E! It's a mystery where he is. It's no mystery. And you thought I forgot.
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Mr. E has been on vacation with me, and he's enjoying this particular attraction. So let's
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go to the board.
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Now, if you're going to go on vacation, one of the first things you will have to do if
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you're leaving your country is you're going to need some travel documents. What are those?
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Documents. A "document" is a paper or something with information that tells you something
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is okay or outlines it for you. For example, your passport is a document given by the government
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with your picture on it that says you are a citizen of this country, and you are legal.
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You are a good person. Okay? Now, when you're leaving for a flight, or you want to go to
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another country, you're going to need travel documents first. Trust me; show up at the
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airport and go, "I leave now. I go to Canada." They will go, "And the car is that way. Go
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home, crazy man. Okay?" So we need travel documents. So what are "travel documents"?
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Well, "travel documents" would be your passport, government identification, usually needed
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at most places the travel. Inside of a country, not necessary for most places. But leaving
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the country, you have to have it. Okay? So if you're in the European Union, no problem.
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If you're in Canada and the United States, you don't need one. But as soon as you leave
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these countries, you need a passport.
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What's another thing you need? Well, you need what's called a "boarding pass". If you play
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soccer, you kick the ball; the other guy, he catches it; you "pass" right? The ball
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goes from one player to another. A "boarding pass" is what allows you to go from one country
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to another country. You show the person on the airplane this piece of paper with your
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passport, and they say, "You know what? You can come on the plane and fly, like the pass."
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Kick, catch, other country. Cool? All right. So these are your travel documents. You need
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those.
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Now, I should have started with you need to make a plan because you want to go visit some
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place. You want to go on vacation, right? And if you want to go on vacation, well, going
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to have to -- I said "vacation". A "vacation" is a holiday, another word for saying "time
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off from work". All right? So you want to go on vacation. Sometimes, we say, "We're
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going to vacation in Italy." Or "on my vacation, I want to visit Italy." Or "I'm taking a holiday
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in Italy." Okay? So all these words, when people say, "Well, what are you doing on your
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time off?" You might go, "I'm going on vacation." Then they know you're leaving. If you just
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say, "I'm taking time off from work", you could be home cleaning. But no. You're saying,
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"I'm going on vacation." They're going to go, "Where are you going to visit? Italy,
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perhaps? Sicily? Is it going to be a good holiday?" And you go, "Yes. I earned my time."
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"Earned" means to work for something. "I earned my time off. I'm going on vacation."
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You need a boarding pass, and you need a passport. You know where you're going. What else is
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important for a vacation? Usually, you need money. But when you ask for the money in a
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different country, we don't say, "Money. Do you have money?" They will say, "Yes." And
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they will say, "Do you have money?" And you will say, "Yes." But it means nothing. What
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you need to say is, "What currency do you use?" "Currency" is a very fancy word for
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"money". But it means money in a certain country. In Canada, we use dollars. That's the currency.
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In America, they use dollars. But it's different currency because American and Canadian money
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are not the same. It's true. They used to use pesos in Spain. And they also use pesos
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in Mexico. But the currency was different, meaning the money was different. So you don't
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want to say, "What money do I use?" You say, "What currency do I need?" If you go to Europe,
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you need the euro. If you go to America -- United States of America for those people who are
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very, very special -- you use the American dollar, which is not to be confused with the
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Australian dollar. Careful, right? Not every country has it. I mean, I went to one place
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-- I went to Florence. I was thinking, "Florence. Do I go to a florist and buy a flower and
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exchange it?" No that was their currency. All right?
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Now, when you want to take your money and give it to somebody else and say, "I want
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your money. What do I need to do?" They will say, "Okay. To get this -- oh, sorry. To get
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this money -- Canadian money. See? It's red and white like our flag -- you need two of
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your poor dollars!" So when you do an exchange rate, it tells you how much of your money
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do you need to get someone else's money, or how much of your currency do you need to get
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someone else's currency. I know it seems a little confusing, but trust me. Once you leave
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your country, these things are going to be things you're going to go, "I wish somebody
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told me." And I'll say, "I did tell you. You just weren't listening." Okay? You need currency
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to go to different countries. So a good thing to do before you get your flight is to say,
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"What currency do they use in that country?" Believe me, you don't want to find out by
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accident you don't have the right currency. It happened to me.
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Okay. So we've got currency; we've got our documents; we have to, what we call, "book
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our flight" or "book our trip" or "our travel arrangements". Okay? Because you've got -- you
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know where you want to go. You've got this stuff all going. You need to get your flight.
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So the flight -- they'll give you the time, the airport -- the place where the airplane
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will be and will land, okay? -- and your return. You might have a return ticket or a one-way.
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Didn't talk about that? You should ask this. "Return" means you can come home, all right?
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You can come home. If you get one-way -- [singing] "I'm on a highway to hell!" You ain't coming
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back, son! And people ask questions when you buy a one-way ticket. They go, "And when do
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you plan on coming back, hmm?" Okay? So when you make your travel arrangements or you flight
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or your trip, okay, this is when you'll get your boarding pass, right? You'll do that;
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they will print up your travel document. It's called your "itinerary". An "itinerary" tells
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me what time the plane will arrive, what time I must be at the airport -- not the same.
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Three hours for international; two hours for domestic. "Domestic" means in the country,
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okay?
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All of this will be in your itinerary. Itinerary. I'm going to do that later -- no. I'll do
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it now. "Itinerary." I-tin -- like a can -- er-ary. Okay? Itinerary. It's one word. And what this
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means is your arrangements or organization of your travel. And airports will give you
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an itinerary when you book a flight. See we have the word here? You book a flight or book
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your trip, which means you call them and say, "I want to go here at this time." When you're
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ready and you pay your money, they will give you an itinerary which will tell you when
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you're flying, when you're leaving, what airport, how much. And it also, when you're finished,
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says you have paid, so you can get your boarding pass and get on the plane.
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So you've got your itinerary. We're ready to go. What's next? Well, you're going to
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go to the airport. And when you go there, I want you to be aware of something. It's
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called your "luggage" or "baggage". Depending on what was on your itinerary, it might say
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how many bags you can take. That's another thing on your itinerary. There are two types.
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There are "baggage" and "carry-on". It's not exactly the same, and you have to be very
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careful when you go on vacation. "Carry-on" means you, on your body, can walk on the airplane,
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and then sit down, put it on the overhead, okay? "Carry-on" is on you. You keep it with
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you, with your passport. Go on the plane. And then you can put it above. This is not
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the same as your "luggage" or "baggage" that is -- you come with. This is what you're allowed
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to. Sometimes, you're allowed one. Sometimes, you're allowed two. You better check because
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it will really make your vacation very expensive. And I'll tell you why in a second. If you
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have luggage, usually, you take it to the airport. You give it to someone. It disappears.
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And you don't see it again until you get to the new country. They say, "Carry-on? Do you
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have anything for carry-on?" You say, "Yes. This bag." And you walk, and they go, "Okay."
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Then, the other one, they take away and say, "Bye-bye, bag! I'll see you in the new country."
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So you got on the carry-on. You've got your boarding pass. You walk up with passport.
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They let you in. Okay? You board. "Board" means you can go on the plane. When they say,
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"Geraldine Potter, boarding now. Flight 57 is boarding. Ready to leave, to depart." That's
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you. You get on the plane. Okay? So you board the plane, give them your documents.
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Finally, you're on the plane. You're relaxing. The plane comes. It arrives, and comes down.
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What's the first place you go to? Customs. Customs. You get off the plane. They announced
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you. You showed your passport one time. They're going to say do you, "Do you have a passport,
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please, sir? Can we see your passport?" And you have to show the passport again before
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you can come in the new country. So once you get to Italy, you can't just walk into Italy.
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You have to go to customs and show your passport. Then, you can enter, and we can finally begin
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our vacation.
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Well, what are you going to do on vacation? You didn't just go there to go to a hotel.
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And a "hotel" is a place you pay to sleep at night. And you can buy some food, but you
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just sleep there. Okay? Or maybe, you have family there. I didn't draw a hotel because,
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well, you probably are going with family, and hotel -- you probably know that before
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you go because you can't just show up and kind of go, "Okay. I sleep where, now?" You
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get a hotel. So a hotel or motel are places that you go to. Motels are a little bit cheaper.
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And hotels are more expensive but can be nicer with bathtubs and everything. Magnifique.
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Okay? But they're places you pay to stay to sleep at night. Okay?
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There's also something called "hostel". Not "hostage", okay? Not "hostage". Let's not
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go there. "Hostel". A "hostel" is usually used by students or people who have backpacks
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that they carry, and they're very, very cheap, but many people share rooms or showers. So
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you can spend more money and go to a hotel. Middle money -- think "motel" is "middle money".
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Not so nice, but you have your own bathroom and your own bed. And "hostel", well, everybody
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sleeps together. Well, no. They don't. I'm just saying everybody sleeps in a similar
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room and has the same shower, okay? Those are your three things you can do.
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So after you get up from your hotel, motel, hostel, you might want to, well, go sightseeing.
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See the glasses? "Sightseeing" is when you go to places of interest in a country, usually
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places that are called "tourist attractions" -- "attraction", like a magnet, brings tourists.
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In Canada, we have the CN Tower. Or in Seattle, the Seattle Space Needle. Or in Paris, the
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Arc De Triomphe. Okay? These are places where people go, "Did you go to see MoNA, the Museum
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of Natural --?" They ask you because you should go to these places in these countries, all
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right? So if you say to someone, "Hey. I want to go sightseeing. Do you know of any tourist
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attractions?" They'll go, "Yes. My house at twelve o'clock. The freaks come out at night."
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Joking. What they'll say is, "Yeah. You should go to this place, Yonge Street. Or this place.
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And here are some things you'll like when you get there." Okay?
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Now, be careful. Although there are tourist attractions, there are also what we call "tourist
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traps". These are places where you spend lots of money for nothing. You will notice people
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in the country never go there because they go, "Oh, it's too much money, and all the
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tourists are there." Which means, it's just made for tourists. It doesn't mean it's fantastic
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or great. It just means there are people there who know tourists are coming, who probably
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speak foreign languages, and they want to take most of your money. So make sure you
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make a difference or you ask a local in the country, "Hey. Is this a tourist attraction
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or a tourist trap?" And you'll know that because especially if you want to practice your English,
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there will be more people speaking your language at tourist traps than at tourist attractions.
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Sometimes, there will be people to help you. But you know, be careful.
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Now, you've gone to attractions, you've gone sightseeing. You've missed the tourist traps.
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I'm sorry; your vacation is over. Almost like this lesson. That means you've got to go back
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home. So you're going to have to board the plane again, take your luggage, get your carry-on,
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make sure you have your travel documents -- your boarding pass and your passport, okay? "Bye,
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Italy! It was a nice vacation. I'll visit you again." My holiday is over, so Mr. E and
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I, well, we're going to take our flight back to our country. It's going to be a long -- see,
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a long flight is usually, like, hours. A short flight could be an hour. But we really enjoyed
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the trip. And we love traveling, okay? I'm going to tell my friends about this airline
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I use because they have a great itinerary.
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When I come back to my country, oh, damn it! I have to go through customs again. When you
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come back, you have to go through with your stuff and show them. Go to customs. But finally,
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maybe I have some money left. I have their currency, not their money. So I'll have to
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go and find out what the exchange rate is, change my money back to my real money, and
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my trip is over.
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I hope you enjoyed this little trip. Mr. E, of course, you did. I've got some pictures
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of you and me away, huh? Drinking some beer, yes? In some good countries! Anyway. It's
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been a pleasure. And I need you to go somewhere -- take a little trip. It's not much of a
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flight. But it's sort of like a vacation because you're going to learn a different language
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-- English. You don't need any documents, and you don't have to go to customs. I want
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you to go to www.engvid.com. That's right. I said it, people. "Eng" as in "English",
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"vid" as in video". That's EngVid, where you can find myself and other teachers who will
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take you on a fabulous journey -- that's a word we didn't use here, a "journey" to English.
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Don't forget to watch out for tourist traps, okay? Don't be a tourist. Come stay with us.
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We'll educate you. Have a good one. E! Out!
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