Lesson Transcript

Hi, everyone, my name is Bridget, and in

today's lesson we are going to be talking about
the Top 10 Most Common Tourist Vocabulary.
Let's get started!

1. ticket

All passengers must have a ticket.

A ticket is what grants you access to places. So

you buy tickets ahead of time, and you show
them at the door. Someone takes them,
someone scans them, just to make sure you've
paid to get where you're going.

When you get onto a plane you have a ticket;

when you go into a museum you have to show
your ticket; when you go into the movie theater,
you have a ticket. Ticket.

2. tourist

I think you all know what it means to be a

tourist. A tourist is someone who's visiting a
new place for pleasure, means you're going out
and exploring, trying new things, you're going
there as a tourist.

To tour, you're literally there to tour a place, to

get a sense of it, to see new things.

3. itinerary
What's on the itinerary, dear?

An itinerary is a schedule of what you are going

to be doing in a given day. So you can wake up
and say, what's on the itinerary for today? Just
like you can say, what's on the schedule for
today? It means what you have planned. So for
example, I've booked a vacation package
where all the days are planned out for me; so
day one, what's on the itinerary? Oh, it seems
day one we're going to a museum, and then
we're going to a stadium, and then we're going
to see a play.

4. guide book

A guide book is a book that has information

about a certain place. So if you're traveling to
Japan, you can buy a Japan guide book, and in
that book you're going to see good restaurants
to try, museums, neighborhoods to check out,
different things. So the guide book is meant to
guide you on your tour of a new place.

5. tour bus

A tour bus is a bus that's meant for tourists. It's

a bus you get on that takes you around and
show you different things, or if you are in an
organized tour, maybe everyone in your group
will get on this tour bus, and the bus will take
you to the places on your itinerary.

Let's take the tour bus back to the hotel.

6. temple

A temple is a building devoted to the worship of

a particular god or gods. You can say, wow,
there are so many temples in Kyoto in Japan.

7. mosque

That's a very old mosque.

A mosque is a Muslim place of worship.

8. church

A church is a Christian place of worship. I'm

sure you've seen plenty of them on your
travels.

Wow, this church is so tall. This church is so

impressive.

9. waterfall

Don't go chasing waterfalls… weird, this song

has actually been stuck in my head all day.
We'll hike to the waterfall and gaze upon its
beauty, and have lunch looking at the gushing
water.

A waterfall, water is falling down the mountain,

you've seen them, they're beautiful. In America
we have Niagara Falls, which is one of our
most famous waterfalls. Waterfall.

10. tour

As a tourist, you're probably going to go on at

least one tour. A guide takes you on a tour of a
particular place, of a particular thing, and gives
you information. That means you're on a tour.
Maybe in your guidebook you see that there is
a tour to go and see a waterfall. So you get on
the computer and you buy a ticket for the tour,
and once you have the ticket, you add that tour
to your itinerary, so that you have it scheduled.