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Lesson 14 / Travel
5 phrases · 12 minutes · Look, listen and try.
Check in to the hotel, fly and return after the trip.
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We can check in at the hotel after two in the afternoon.
We can check in at the hotel after two in the afternoon.
Have you checked in yet, or are you still waiting?
Have you checked in yet, or are you still waiting?
In the lesson, check-in procedures; Can also be used when checking in for flights.
Cambridge Dictionary · check in
We must check out before eleven tomorrow.
We must check out before eleven tomorrow.
Please return your key when you check out.
Please return your key when you check out.
The meaning here is to end your stay at the hotel, different from "check out a website" which means to take a look.
Cambridge Dictionary · check out
We will stop over in Singapore for one night.
We will stop over in Singapore for one night.
Can we stop over in Da Nang before we go home?
Can we stop over in Da Nang before we go home?
This place is a stop on the way to another place, not necessarily the final destination.
The plane will take off in twenty minutes.
The plane will take off in twenty minutes.
I looked out of the window as we took off.
I looked out of the window as we took off.
For an aircraft, “take off” has no object. This is different from removing clothes in “take off your shoes”.
Cambridge Dictionary · take off
We will come back here next summer.
We will come back here next summer.
Please come back before it gets dark.
Please come back before it gets dark.
Emphasis on returning to a place or to the speaker; no phrase separation.
The examples were written for this course. Usage was checked against Matt Errey’s book, pages 21, 21, 123, 128, 24. A2–B1 is the course’s intended level.
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Hạ brought her suitcase to the hotel reception to receive her room key.
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Hạ returned the room key to the receptionist before leaving the hotel.
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Hạ and her suitcase explore an intermediate city during the trip.
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A plane is leaving the runway and flying into the sky.
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Hạ dragged her suitcase back home and was greeted at the door by relatives.
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Read the conversation and find the expressions you have learned.
Can we check in before three? Our flight arrived early.
Can we check in before three? Our flight arrived early.
Yes. Will you check out on Friday?
Yes. Will you check out on Friday?
Yes, then we will stop over in Rome before coming back.
Yes, then we will stop over in Rome before coming back.
“Check in” and “check out” depend on the setting. At a hotel they mean registering on arrival and leaving after settling arrangements; airport check-in is a different setting.
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The answers below are models. Other answers can also work if they preserve the facts, meaning and structure requested in the task.
A visitor reaches a guesthouse on Monday and leaves on Thursday. Her flight departure is a separate event.
Which hotel action happens on Monday?
She checks in at the guesthouse.
Arriving at the guesthouse on Monday to register is “checks in”.
Give the past form: The plane takes off late.
The plane took off late.
The past of “take” is “took”, so “takes off” becomes “took off”, not “taked off”.
Write her Thursday plan using check out.
I will check out on Thursday before travelling to the airport.
“Check out on Thursday” describes leaving the accommodation on Thursday before travelling to the airport.
The usage comparisons are checked against the Cambridge Dictionary entries linked beside the compared expressions. The additional conversations and exercises are written for this course.
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