At the airport

04.12.20 intermediate class

 • Plane
• Seat belt
• Duty free store
• Gate number
• Boarding pass
• Meal
• Luggage
• Check-in desk
• Departures board
• Airport
• Security control

Vocabulary • Police station

• Flight
• Departure lounge
• Delay
Choose the best answer.
1. You must wear this when a plane takes off and lands.
a) Boarding pass
b) Seat belt

2. After you land, you can collect this in the airport.

a) Flight
b) Luggage

3. This shows your flight and seat information.

a) Duty free store
b) Boarding pass

4. This is the food you eat at regular times each day.

a) Delay
b) Meal

5. If you lose your passport, you go here to ask for help.

a) Airport
b) Police station

6. This is where you wait to board (get on) the plane.

a) Gate
b) Security control

7. This is where you leave your luggage and get your boarding pass.
a) Departure lounge
b) Check-in desk

8. This shows the gate numbers of all the flights in an airport.

a) Departures board
b) Duty free store
Use the words to
complete the story.
Seat belt, meal, check-in desk,
luggage, gate, security control,
delayed, boarding pass, duty free
store, flight
After leaving her (1)_______ at
the (2)____________ , Kate went to the
(3)_________________. After that, she stopped to
buy a gift in the (4)__________ . She got to
the (5)________ just in time, showed her
passport and (6)___________ and boarded the
plane.
She put he bag under the seat in front of
her. She sat down and fastened her (7)_______.
Unluckily, the (8)_______ was (9)__________ and
she had to wait 20 minutes.
In the end, she enjoyed the flight – even
the (10)__________ was tasty!
Put the words into the right category.
Plane, seat belt, duty free store, gate number, boarding pass, meal, luggage, check-in desk,
departures board, airport, security control, police station, flight, departure lounge, delay

Things or places in an airport Things or places on a plane Things in both an airport and a
plane
• All passengers must wear a face mask
inside the plane.
 Modals – permission, obligation

Can Can’t (cannot) Must

Mustn’t (must Don’t have to

Have to
not) (do not have to)
 NOTE** undo the black highlight(ing?)
You can sit in my seat, I don’t mind. to get the explanation.
We often use can to ask for and give . Ask the students first about the ‘meaning’
of the modal verb
You can’t travel abroad without a passport.
We use can't to talk about something that is against the rules, particularly when we didn't make the rules.

Luggage must not be left unattended.

We use must not/musn’t to talk about what is not permitted. It is common on public signs and notices informing people of rules and laws.

You have to wait in line to board the plane.

Have to shows us that the obligation comes from outside the speaker.

(Sign on a plane)All passengers must fasten their seat bealts.

Must expresses a strong obligation or necessity. It often shows us that the obligation comes from the speaker (or the authority that wrote the
sentence.)

You don’t have to go to the check-in desk to get your boarding pass; you can do it online.
We use don’t have to to show that there is no obligation. You can do something if you want to but it's not compulsory.

Note that we don't use must to express obligation in the past. We use have to instead.
I had to pay 50€ to renew my passport last week.
Permission Prohibition Obligation No
obligation
 1. Passengers _________ take electrical items, e.g.
laptops and hairdryers in their hand baggage, but they
_______ take (long) scissors or knives.
2. (A mom to her child) You ________ stay with me in
Complete the the departure lounge.
sentences with the 3. You ___________ put your small bag under the seat.
suitable modal 4. You ____________ smoke inside the airport.
verb. 5. I ____________ show a physical boarding pass; I
have it in my phone.
Describe the rules!

• Describe what you can, can’t, must,

mustn’t, have to, and don’t have to do
in a specific area of the airport. Your
partners have to guess which area you
are talking about.