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I enjoy flying but airports are stressful | Improve your listening with Real Easy English

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  1. 0:00 Hi Becca.
  2. 0:01 Hi Neil.
  3. 0:02 How are you?
  4. 0:03 Have you got any trips coming up soon?
  5. 0:05 I have.
  6. 0:06 I'm going to Montenegro, which is exciting.
  7. 0:10 I've never been there before, but it means that I have to go to an airport and I have to fly.
  8. 0:16 I don't like flying.
  9. 0:17 But we're talking about airports today in this episode of Real Easy English.
  10. 0:21 We are.
  11. 0:22 But people need to know that to get a transcript and a worksheet for this episode, they need to go to our website, bbclearningenglish.com.
  12. 0:31 Absolutely.
  13. 0:38 So, you'll be going to an airport for your holiday, but what happens at an airport, Neil?
  14. 0:44 One of the most important things is check in.
  15. 0:48 Now, 'to check in' is to officially tell the airline that you're going to fly.
  16. 0:54 Normally, now, we do this online, but you can still check in at the airport, I think.
  17. 1:00 Yes, you can.
  18. 1:01 Yeah.
  19. 1:02 So, there will be check-in gates.
  20. 1:04 It is very important.
  21. 1:05 It is, because they give you a boarding pass then, don't they?
  22. 1:09 They do.
  23. 1:10 The boarding pass is the document that lets you get on the plane and also tells you what seat that you have on the plane as well.
  24. 1:20 So, you've checked in and you've got your boarding pass.
  25. 1:24 What happens next?
  26. 1:26 Well, then you need to go through security, and that's when they check you to make sure you haven't got anything that you shouldn't have on a plane.
  27. 1:36 I hate airport security.
  28. 1:40 Even though I know that I'm not carrying anything that I'm not supposed to have, it still makes me feel a bit stressed.
  29. 1:49 Yeah, I know what you mean.
  30. 1:51 You feel guilty even if you haven't done anything.
  31. 1:54 Exactly!
  32. 1:56 Yeah, airport security is one of the reasons I don't really enjoy airports.
  33. 2:01 Really?
  34. 2:02 You don't like airports?
  35. 2:03 I don't like airports.
  36. 2:04 I enjoy flying but...
  37. 2:07 yeah, airports can be a bit stressful for me.
  38. 2:10 Well, I'm the exact opposite of you because I quite like airports, but I really don't like flying.
  39. 2:18 What do you like about airports?
  40. 2:20 I think because when you finally get to the airport, it's somebody else's problem for you to travel.
  41. 2:29 So, it's my responsibility to get to the airport but once I'm there, I can relax.
  42. 2:37 OK.
  43. 2:37 And have you ever been in a situation where you relaxed a bit too much and almost missed a flight?
  44. 2:48 Yes, I have missed a flight once and it was very stressful.
  45. 2:53 I was travelling in Ireland and I had a flight in Dublin, and I was in a different city - in Cork.
  46. 3:01 And I missed the train from Cork to Dublin and so I couldn't get to the airport on time.
  47. 3:09 So, you did miss that flight?
  48. 3:11 I missed it.
  49. 3:12 Oh no!
  50. 3:13 So, Becca, have you ever missed a flight?
  51. 3:17 Thankfully, no, I haven't missed a flight.
  52. 3:21 I was very close to missing a flight...
  53. 3:24 I was just relaxing.
  54. 3:26 I had travelled from Vietnam and I was really tired, so I wasn't really listening carefully.
  55. 3:35 Well, they didn't call my name, so I was really stressed trying to find the gate, but luckily I caught it.
  56. 3:44 I think I was the last person to board the plane, and that's always a little bit embarrassing as well.
  57. 3:50 You know what, Becca?
  58. 3:51 I think if you get your name read out on the loudspeaker in an airport, that's really embarrassing because everyone in the airport is thinking,
  59. 4:02 Who's that person?
  60. 4:04 That person who's going to miss their flight!
  61. 4:07 And you don't want to be that person.
  62. 4:16 OK.
  63. 4:16 Becca, it's time to recap the vocabulary that we used in this episode, starting with 'check in'.
  64. 4:22 'Check in' is the verb, which means you officially tell the plane company that you plan to get on the plane, and you give them your bags as well.
  65. 4:32 And at the airport you do this at the check-in desk.
  66. 4:36 Yes.
  67. 4:37 And at the check-in desk, that's where you get your boarding pass, and that's the ticket that you need to get on the plane.
  68. 4:44 And then we heard the expression 'go through security'.
  69. 4:48 If you go through security, you go through that area where they check and make sure you have nothing with you that should not be on a plane.
  70. 4:57 Yes.
  71. 4:57 Going through security - my least favourite thing about airports.
  72. 5:02 After security, you wait at the boarding gate and this is the area that you wait at before you get on the plane.
  73. 5:09 If you catch a flight, it means you successfully get on the plane and fly somewhere, but if you miss a flight,
  74. 5:16 like I did in Ireland, it means that you were too late to get on the plane.
  75. 5:22 Well, Neil, that's it for this week's episode of Real Easy English, but we'll be back next week with another episode.
  76. 5:29 Don't forget that you can download a free worksheet on our website, bbclearningenglish.com.
  77. 5:35 Goodbye for now.
  78. 5:36 Bye!

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