At the airport

Tara is going to visit her friend in Germany

to get there from England she has to take a flight in an aeroplane

So now she is at the airport

The first thing she did when she got there

was to leave her car at

the long-term car park

This is a special car park where travellers can leave their cars

for over a week

Now

she has gone to the part of the airport where she will start her flight

This is the passenger terminal

The part of the terminal she is looking for

is called departures

The other part of the terminal is Arrivals

and this deals with travellers whose flight has just brought them to the airport

Once she gets to departures

Tara takes a quick look at the flight announcements

Good her flight is still on time

and there are no delays

Because she wants to have plenty of time before her flight

Tara goes straight to the check-in

desk

She is very early

so there is no queue

At the desk she shows the ticket for her flight

and hands over her suitcase

The baggage

allowance for her flights is just twenty-five kilograms

So Tara has been careful not to pack too much

If her suitcase were too heavy

Tata would have to pay an

excess baggage fee. Now hersuitcase is taken

away to be carried in the plane's cargo

Tara has marked a big cross on her suitcase

so she will be able to recognize it easily when it arrives on the luggage

carousel for her to collect at Munich airport

After she has checked in Tara is given a boarding pass which will allow her

onto the aeroplane

Now Tara has to go through security and emigration

She checks the regulations

and makes sure

that she has no dangerous objects such as liquid or aerosols in the bag which she

will be taking onto the aeroplane as

carry-on baggage

She also checks again that she has her passport to show at emigration

Once she has gone through security she passes through a scanner to make sure

she has no metal objects in her pockets

Her bag goes through a special x-ray machine

which checks that too

Now she is in the flight side part of the airport

If there's anything she has forgotten on the public side

it is too late now

But Tara thinks she has remembered everything

She checks her boarding pass to see at what gate she will find her plane

Because her gate is on the other side of the airport

she has to take a shuttle train

Fortunately

it is not crowded

Tara knows that she might have to wait for a while in the departure lounge

next to the gate before she boards the aeroplane

so she decides to have something to drink while she is waiting

Then

when she hears the announcement that her flight is boarding

she hands in her boarding pass to the flight attendant and walks down to the runway

where her plane is waiting

Have a good flight Tara

If you want to do some exercises on the vocabulary you have just learned

you can find these on the English for Everybody website along with

other videos

at this address