Vocabulary B2

Unit 2
voyage/journey/trip/travel/excursion

Verbs used with `journey', `trip', `voyage' and `excursion’

• You make or go on a journey.
• He made the long journey to India.
• You take or go on a trip.
• We took a bus trip to Manchester.
• You make a voyage.
• The ship made the 4,000-kilometre voyage across the Atlantic.
• You go on an excursion.
• Students went on an excursion to the Natural History Museum.
view / sight
• Sight
You use sight to give your impression of the appearance of a particular thing or
person.
• A volcano erupting is a spectacular sight.
• With his ragged clothes and thin face, he was a pitiful sight.
• You can use the plural form sights to refer to the interesting things that there are to
see in a particular place.
• Did you have time to see the sights while you were in Moscow?
• A guide offered to show us the sights.
• There are some other nouns that are commonly used to refer to things that people
see:
`View’

• View is used to refer to what you can see from a window or high
place.
• Her bedroom window looked out onto a superb view of London.
• From the top of the hill there is a fine view.
world / earth
area/ territory
season / period
fa r e / t i c k e t / fee
miss / lose
• Hurry up, or we’ll .. the bus!
• A avoid
• B miss
• C drop
• D lose
take / bring / go
book / keep
Make sure you ........ a hotel before you come to our island, especially in
the summer.
• A book
• C put
• В keep
• D take
 Arrive/Reach
You use arrive or reach to say that someone comes to a place at the end of a journey.
• I'll tell Professor Sastri you've arrived.
• He reached Bath in the late afternoon.

ARRIVE
• You usually say that someone arrives at a place.
• We arrived at Victoria Station at 3 o'clock.

• However, you say that someone arrives in a country or city.

• He had arrived in France slightly ahead of schedule.
• The ambassador arrived in Paris today.

• Be Careful! Don't say that someone `arrives to' a place.

Don't use a preposition after arrive in front of home, here, there, somewhere, or anywhere
• We arrived home and I carried my suitcases up the stairs.
• I arrived here yesterday.
Reach
Reach + direct object.
Don't say that someone `reaches at' a place or that they `have just
reached'.
• It was dark by the time I reached their house.
live / stay
LIVE
Permanent resident of that place.
• For example:-

• Where do you live? = What is your current address / country of residence.

• When I was younger I lived in Scotland, but now I am living in Germany.

Stay somewhere it is temporary.

• For example:

Where did you stay while you were at the conference?

• When I first moved to Scotland I stayed with friends until I found a place to live.
border / edge / line
• You need a passport to cross the between Mexico and the United
States.
• A edge
• C border
• B line
• D rim
length / distance
• As nouns the difference between distance and length
• is that distance is the amount of space between two points,
usually geographical points, usually (but not necessarily)
measured along a straight line while length is the distance
measured along the longest dimension of an object.

As verbs the difference between distance and length

• Distance is to move away (from) someone or something
• Length is to lengthen. (alargar)
guide / lead
native / home
• I hope to go on a trip round the world / earth one day.
• You learn a lot about the local territory / area by speaking to local
people.
• It's good to have someone to lead / guide you when you are on
holiday.
• I get the train to work every day and the fare / fee is quite expensive.
• Captain Cook discovered Australia on a voyage / travel to the Pacific.
• Most tourist attractions in London charge an admission fee / ticket.
• The sunset over Niagara Fals really si a magnificent look / sight.