Listening skills practice: Travelling abroad – exercises

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Listen to the five airport announcements and do the exercises to practice and improve your listening skills.
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Preparation
Do this exercise before you listen. Write a number (1-6) to put these sentences in order.

4 Wait at the boarding gate

2 Go to the checking-in desk.
5 Board the plane.
3 Go through immigration.
6 The plane takes off: V.P
1 Arrive at the airport.

1. Check your understanding: gap fill

Do this exercise while you listen. Complete the gaps with a word from the box.

New York Athens Amsterdam

Rome Tokyo

1. Speaker A: The plane is going to Rome

2. Speaker B: The plane is going to Tokyo

3. Speaker C: The plane is going to Athens

4. Speaker D: The plane is going to Amsterdam

5. Speaker E: The plane is going to New York

2. Check your understanding: gap fill
Do this exercise while you listen. Complete the gaps.

1. The 9.25 flight to Rome is delayed by 2 hours because bad weather.

2. Passengers going to Tokyo should go to boarding gate 21.

3. Passengers going to Athens should go to boarding gate 14.

4. The flight number of the plane going to Amsterdam is KL1050 It will leave from gate 6.

5. The time in New York is 18:30.

1. I WENT TO……..
6. The temperature in New York is 76ºF. 2. IT TOOK……….HOURS
3. YES/NOT, IT WAS GOOD
BECAUSE….

Tell your partner/ group about the last time you took a flight somewhere.

Where did you go?

I went to Medellin, Antioquia.

How long was the flight?

It took four hours.

Did you have a good journey? Why?/ Why not?

Yes, it was good because I visited explore park.

Vocabulary Box Write any new words you have learnt in this lesson.

ANNOUNCEMENT: This is a public and typically formal statement about a fact, occurrence, or
intention.
DELAYED: A period of time by which something is late or postponed.

LANDED: This is when the plane arrives at the airport or something falls of the Skye.

JOURNEY: This is travel from one place to another.