Learn the Top 10 Most Common Tourist Vocabulary in American English

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Hi, everyone, my name is Bridget, and in today's lesson we are going to be talking about the
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Top 10 Most Common Tourist Vocabulary.
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Let's get started!
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ticket All passengers must have a ticket.
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A ticket is what grants you access to places.
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So you buy tickets ahead of time, and you show them at the door.
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Someone takes them, someone scans them, just to make sure you've paid to get where you're
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going.
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When you get onto a plane you have a ticket; when you go into a museum you have to show
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your ticket; when you go into the movie theater, you have a ticket.
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Ticket.
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tourist I think you all know what it means to be a
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tourist.
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A tourist is someone who's visiting a new place for pleasure, means you're going out
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and exploring, trying new things, you're going there as a tourist.
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To tour, you're literally there to tour a place, to get a sense of it, to see new things.
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itinerary What's on the itinerary, dear?
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An itinerary is a schedule of what you are going to be doing in a given day.
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So you can wake up and say, what's on the itinerary for today?
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Just like you can say, what's on the schedule for today?
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It means what you have planned.
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So for example, I've booked a vacation package where all the days are planned out for me;
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so day one, what's on the itinerary?
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Oh, it seems day one we're going to a museum, and then we're going to a stadium, and then
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we're going to see a play.
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guide book A guide book is a book that has information
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about a certain place.
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So if you're traveling to Japan, you can buy a Japan guide book, and in that book you're
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going to see good restaurants to try, museums, neighborhoods to check out, different things.
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So the guide book is meant to guide you on your tour of a new place.
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tour bus A tour bus is a bus that's meant for tourists.
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It's a bus you get on that takes you around and show you different things, or if you are
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in an organized tour, maybe everyone in your group will get on this tour bus, and the bus
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will take you to the places on your itinerary.
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Let's take the tour bus back to the hotel.
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temple
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A temple is a building devoted to the worship
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of a particular god or gods.
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You can say, wow, there are so many temples in Kyoto in Japan.
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mosque That's a very old mosque.
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A mosque is a Muslim place of worship.
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church A church is a Christian place of worship.
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I'm sure you've seen plenty of them on your travels.
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Wow, this church is so tall.
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This church is so impressive.
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waterfall Don't go chasing waterfalls… weird, this
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song has actually been stuck in my head all day.
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We'll hike to the waterfall and gaze upon its beauty, and have lunch looking at the
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gushing water.
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A waterfall, water is falling down the mountain, you've seen them, they're beautiful.
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In America we have Niagara Falls, which is one of our most famous waterfalls.
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Waterfall.
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tour As a tourist, you're probably going to go
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on at least one tour.
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A guide takes you on a tour of a particular place, of a particular thing, and gives you
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information.
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That means you're on a tour.
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Maybe in your guidebook you see that there is a tour to go and see a waterfall.
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So you get on the computer and you buy a ticket for the tour, and once you have the ticket,
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you add that tour to your itinerary, so that you have it scheduled.
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Boom! Boom! Connect all the dots!
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So that was the Top 10 Most Common Tourist Vocabulary.
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