C1.1.4 World Travellers Flashcards

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1
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Available space or rooms in a hotel (noun)

A

Vacancies

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Items with a lot of monetary or personal value (adj,noun)

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Valuables

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A metal box that can be locked with a key or password where someone can keep valuables ( noun)

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safe /Safety box

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When you call the hotel’s reception to have food brought up to your room (noun)

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Room service

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Old in a charming way, often used to describe old-fashioned places (adj)

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Quaint

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An inexpensive place to stay usually filled with young backpackers, often with shared dormitory options (noun)

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Youth hostel

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Someone’s private home which has several extra rooms for overnight guests; the cost generally includes home-made breakfast (noun)

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Bed and breakfast

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A new trend where travellers can stay on an unknown local’s couch for free (organised through a social media site). (noun)

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Couch-surfing

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A type of vacation accommodation where people usually go to relax. Often times when booking all-inclusive vacations people stay in resorts (noun)

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Resort

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A proposal or bid to give or pay something (noun, verb)

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Offer

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A business transaction or arrangement (noun, verb)

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Deal

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When you buy a deal that includes many different items, for example flights, hotel and food all paid together (noun)

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Package deal

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To reserve (verb)

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To book

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A vacation which includes everything you would need throughout your holiday (hotel, flight, airport, transfer, food, drinks and towels) (adj)

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All-inclusive

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A journey ( by bus, boat, plane, train, etc) that includes the trip there and back

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Round-trip

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The act of visiting places and things of interest (noun). Showing, or used for visiting sights (adj)

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Sightseeing

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one who steals from the pockets of people, as in a crowded public place (noun, verb)

A

Pickpocket

18
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Where tourists can go to get information about the local sights(noun)

A

Tourist information center

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An information pamphlet which talks about the local highlights, events and destinations. (noun)

A

Brochure

20
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Strikingly beautiful scenery (adj)

A

Picturesque

21
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A mile a minute (adj)

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Very quickly

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Not paying attention (adj)

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Asleep at the wheel

23
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To leave a place, to depart (verb)

A

Hit the road

24
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To have a strong urge to travel (verb)

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To get/have itchy feet

25
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To travel uncommonly visited sights or location (adj)

A

Off the beaten track

26
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The least busy time of the year to visit a certain place (adj, noun, adv)

A

Off season ( with - prenominal adj)

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A dificulta time (noun)

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Rocky road

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To Continue to operate with no or very little enthusiasm, energy, or resources left.(usually used in the continuous tense)
To be especially ineffectual insubstancial, or unsuccessful.

A

To run on fumes/empty

29
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To do something or progress easily (adj)

A

Smooth/plain sailing

30
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Flights that are in the middle of the night (adj)

A

Red eye flight

31
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An overpriced tourist attraction (noun)

A

Tourist trap

32
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A sequence of thoughts, usually used when mid-sentence you forget what you were saying (noun)

A

Train of thought

33
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To manage something firmly and strictly, usually a business (verb)

A

To run a tight ship

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To be a single person in a company of a couple, or several couples (noun)

A

A third wheel

35
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To bring very few things with you while traveling (verb)

A

Travel light

36
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To have the freedom and ability to go anywhere or do anything (sentence)

A

The world is your oyster

37
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Having no plants or vegetation (adj)

A

Barren

38
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To cover something so that it is not seen clearly (verb)

A

To Enshroud /ɪnˈʃraʊd/