5 English phrasal verbs used when travelling | Learn English with Cambridge

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Today, I’ll teach you

five phrasal verbs you can use when travelling.

Hey, Daniella, what’s up?

What are you doing there?

I’m preparing for a conference.

It is in another city and a friend of mine

that is attending as well

told me she will give me some instructions

for arriving.

Look.

Oh, I see.

That’s amazing.

Yes.

But I don’t understand some expressions, you know.

Like, for example, here it says:

Please let me know what time your plane takes off.

Number one: take off.

So, if an aircraft, bird,

or insect takes off, it means it leaves the ground

and begins to fly.

Therefore, before your plane leaves the ground,

you notify her it’s about to take off.

Oh, thanks, okay.

What about this one?

Once you arrive at your destination,

phone me, so I can tell you which bus to get on and

which stop you must get off at.

Number two: get on.

Get on means to enter a bus, train, plane,

or most other means of transportation.

Oh, gotcha.

And get off?

Number three: get off.

Get off means the opposite.

To leave a bus, train, plane,

or most other means of transportation.

Oh, right.

Finally, look.

When you arrive to the bus stop,

you must get off.

I will pick you up there.

Number four: pick up.

In this case,

when talking about transportation, pick up means

that you’ll go and meet a person and bring them back with you.

Which means, she will go and collect you

from the bus station to go to the conference.

Oh, that’s great.

Well, I guess that’s all.

I don’t think so.

Finally, when you get back from the conference,

I’ll be the one who picks you up.

Does that sound good to you?

Ahh, sure, because get back?

Number five: get back.

Get back, in this case,

means to return to a place after you have been somewhere else,

to return home.

Oh, you are the sweetest.

Of course, I’ll be waiting for you.

That’s everything for today, guys.

Thanks for watching this video, and please comment below

if you know how else we can use some of these phrasal verbs.

Bye.