✈ TRAVEL ENGLISH: Vocabulary & expressions for your flight ✈️
English is the language of travel. When you are travelling, you will need to use and understand particular English phrases in order to be safe and comfortable. Has a flight attendant ever needed to tell you to fasten your seatbelt or bring your seat to the upright position? Do you understand the long speech and the safety demonstration at the beginning of a flight? Learn everything you need to know for your next flight by watching this vocabulary lesson all about airplane travel. You will learn words like “belt”, “buckle”, “turbulence”, “lavatory”, “brace”, “impact”, “decompression”, “tray table”, and more. After this lesson, you will be able to understand the flight attendant’s instructions, feel safe, and enjoy your flight without any worries. Make sure you're ready by taking the quiz: https://www.engvid.com/travel-....english-vocabulary-e
Next, watch some of my other travel English lessons:
1. How to go through customs at the airport: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEvi3np6ncc&list=PLxYD9HaZwsI5C0d8CivHvoI_-0rs8XMfc&index=78
2. English for staying at a HOTEL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVtdM-76Mfg&list=PLxYD9HaZwsI5C0d8CivHvoI_-0rs8XMfc&index=24
3. Travel Vocabulary – Planning a Trip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfG7A3ASblU&list=PLxYD9HaZwsI5C0d8CivHvoI_-0rs8XMfc&index=89&t=0s
TRANSCRIPT
Hi. Welcome to engVid. I'm Adam. In today's video, I want to talk to you about flight safety; but more specifically, I want to tell you about the things you're going to hear from the flight attendant on the plane - before you land, before you take off, etc. You know how they stand in front of all the seats; they stand in the aisle and they make that whole show? Like, everything's on video now, but they still stand there, they put the vest on, they put the tube - the oxygen, and they tell you where the... You know, the emergency exits are, and you have to pay attention to all of that. So, if you're not sure exactly what they're saying, I'm going to go over some of the vocabulary today that you're going to hear during that speech. Okay?
We're going to start with: "Fasten your seatbelt." You're going to probably hear this quite a few time during the flight, because they want you to be safe, they want you to be in your seat with your seatbelt fastened. Now, "fastened" means closed; together tightly, securely. Right? So, how do you do that? You have your belt, which is actually the strap that goes around, the black part; and then you have the buckle - this is the metal part where you actually close it. The two pieces are the fittings. So, the one... One fitting goes into the other fitting, you hear a click, and then you know it's closed, and then you can lift the tab to open it. Okay? So that's what it means "to fasten your seatbelt". It means put it on, put it tight, be safe.
Now, the reason you might hear it a few times is because your plane might go through some "turbulence". So, if you're not sure what that means, you know sometimes you're on the plane and everything's, you know, quiet and there's that hum of the engines, and then suddenly the plane starts shaking like this and you get all scared - not a big deal. "Turbulence" is just basically unsteady air movement. The air outside is not flowing in a stream, it's a little bit shaky, so the plane's a little bit shaky. It's perfectly safe; nothing to worry about. Okay?
But... But just in case they have to make an emergency landing; they have to come down because something happened, maybe the engine blew up or there's fire on board, so they have to land and they want you to "evacuate" the plane. "To evacuate" means to leave a place that's dangerous to go to somewhere safe. Now, this is not only on airplanes; if there... If your building... If you live in a building or you work in a building and it's on fire, the police department will come and they will evacuate everybody; they will get everybody out and get them to a safe place. On a plane, that means it's getting away from the plane.
Now, how do you evacuate? So, usually, because if they do an emergency landing, it's not at an airport so they don't have the stairs or they don't have the gangway. Sorry, I should have put this one on, here. The "gangway" is that... You know, that hall that when you come off the plane, you have that hall until you get into the building. So, they don't have that, they don't have stairs, so they're going to use an inflatable slide. Okay? "Inflatable" means that it can be filled up with air.
So, that life vest that you're going to put on... If you land on water, you put on that yellow life vest - that's also inflatable; means it can be filled with air. You can inflate it. The verb: "to inflate" - to fill with air. So, they will have this big slide that's full of air, and you jump on it, you slide, you get off the plane, you run. […]