English Tenses and Travel Vocabulary

Present Tenses

• Present Simple: Subject + infinitive (3rd person +s) + complement / don't or doesn't (usually, often, always, never, sometimes; routines and timetables)
• Present Continuous: Subject + am/is/are + v-ing + complement (actions now, fixed plans and temporary actions; now, at the moment, today, this week...)
• Present Perfect: Subject + have/has + past participle (duration, things that happen in the recent past, life experiences; just, yet, already, for, and since)
• Present Perfect Continuous: Subject + have/has + been + v-ing (duration and intensity of an action; for and since)

Past Tenses

• Used To: To describe past habits/repeated actions or states which are not true.
• Past Simple: Subject + past verb + -ed / Subject + didn't + infinitive (past completed actions; yesterday, last night, in 1998, when, ago)
• Past Continuous: Subject + was/were + v-ing (actions in progress at a certain time in the past; while, time, this morning)
• Past Perfect: Subject + had + past participle (events happened earlier in the past; before, after, already)
• Past Perfect Continuous: Subject + had + been + v-ing (emphasize duration of a past action)

Future Tenses

• Will + Infinitive: Subject + will/won't + infinitive (to describe spontaneous decisions, predictions based on opinions, requests)
• Be Going To: Subject + be going to + infinitive (describe plans or intentions, express predictions based on evidence that exists at the moment)
• Future Continuous: Subject + will + be + v-ing (this time; actions in progress that will develop in the future, already planned action in the future)
• Future Perfect: Subject + will + have + past participle (by; talk about things that will have completed at a certain moment in the future)

Travel Phrasal Verbs

• See off: Go to the airport to say goodbye
• Set out: Start a journey
• Get in: Arrive (train, plane...)
• Hold up: Delay when travelling
• Check out: Leave the hotel after paying
• Get off: Leave the bus, train or plane
• Check in: Arrive and register at a hotel or airport
• Take off: When a plane departs or leaves the ground
• Pick up: Let someone get into your car and take them somewhere
• Drop off: Take someone to a place and leave them there
• Get on: Enter a bus, train, plane to climb on board
• Get away: To have a holiday vacation
• Look around: Explore what is near you, in your area
• Speed up: Increase speed
• Set off: Start a journey, especially a long journey
• Hurry up: Rush and not waste time

Travel Vocabulary

• Shuttle: Lanzadera
• Towards: Hacia
• Youth hostel: Albergue
• Tight: Apretado/ajustado
• A budget: Presupuesto
• A ride: Long road trip
• A lift: Short road trip
• Book ahead: En avance
• Wildlife: Fauna y flora
• Tourist attractions
• To sightsee: Visita
• To go sightseeing: Visitar
• Local food/dishes
• Accommodation: Alojamiento
• Scenery: Landscape
• Seaside: Coast/island
• Trip abroad: (another country)
• The downside: Disadvantage
• Aircraft/terminal: Pista
• Arrivals: Llegadas
• Boarding gate: Puerta de embarque
• Cabin: Cabina
• Customs: Aduana
• Departures lounge: Terminal de salidas
• Crew: Tripulación
• Check-in-desk
• Carry on luggage