In this Business English Podcast, we cover useful travel vocabulary and phrases you can use when you enter another country and go through immigration and customs.
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 Phrases & Practice |
BEP 56: Customs and Immigration – Quiz BEP 56: Customs and Immigration – Gap-fill |
Listening Quiz: (Click a question to see the answer)
2) How much money can you bring into the U.S.?
This Business English Podcast is the first in a series of shows that will follow an employee of a manufacturing company on a training trip to the U.S. The lesson today is focused on airport departures and on-board safety announcements. Over the series, we’ll practice many situations that will be useful for you on your business trips overseas, including going through immigration, renting a car, checking into a hotel, using wireless internet and so on.
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BEP 55: Departure and Take Off – Quiz BEP 55: Departure and Take Off – Gap-fill |
Listening Quiz: (Click a question to see the answer)
1) What row are Alan and Honesto sitting in?
2) What should passengers turn off before the plane takes off?
In this Business English Podcast we’re going to look at the language used for more direct requests, when our traveler and a ticket agent discuss new travel plans due to a missed connecting flight in Paris.
It might be helpful to first listen to first episode in this series (BEP 25), to hear the language of polite, indirect requests, and then listen to this podcast, which uses more direct language for requests and suggestions. As you listen, also notice the more direct tone used in parts of their conversation, especially as Robert gets excited.
In this two-part Business English Podcast series, we will be looking at the vocabulary used when traveling by air, and proper and polite forms of making and answering requests.
In this episode, our traveler Robert is arriving at the airport to fly from Sydney Australia to Nice, France. But he must first fly to Paris, and then fly from Paris to Nice. As you listen, pay attention to the phrases used for polite requests.