English and ICT Skills for Life

Communicating In Social Contexts
Travelling | Phrases to sound natural in English
Drop (someone) off
to take someone to a place and leave him/her there

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Check in
to tell someone at a hotel or airport that you are there for your reservation

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Check out
to return your key and pay your bill when you are leaving a hotel

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Get off
to leave a bus, train, plane

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Get on
to enter a bus, train, plane

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Get in
to arrive at a destination

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Get away
to go on a holiday or for a short break

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Go/come back
to return

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Hold on
to be delayed while travelling

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Look around
to explore / to walk through a city, museum, store, etc., and see what is there

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Pick (someone) up
to get someone from a place

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See (someone) off
to go to the airport, train station, or bus station and say goodbye

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Set off
to start a journey

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Stop off
to stop in one place for a short time on your way to another place

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Take off
to leave, usually when an airplane leaves the ground

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