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Arrival

Land, pass immigration and customs and leave the airport: English words for arrivals, baggage claim, lost luggage, shuttles and taxis, with audio.

Welcome to a new country! The last lesson of the series takes you from the landing to the exit of the airport: passport control, your bags and the way to the city. Listen to each word and repeat it.

Landing

After the landing, the plane drives to the terminal. Your arrival time is often on the screens for the people who wait for you. Follow the signs to arrivals: this is the part of the airport for people who have just landed.

aviation
transportation

Passport control and customs

At immigration, an officer checks your passport and sometimes asks why you are visiting and how long you stay. Later you go through customs. If you bring alcohol, cigarettes or expensive things, you must declare them. If not, take the green exit: nothing to declare.

border control
government
customs

Your bags

Pick up your suitcase at baggage claim. Find the number of your flight on the screen and wait at the carousel, the moving belt with the bags. If your suitcase does not come, go to the lost luggage desk and show your luggage tag.

travel
transportation
travel

Leaving the airport

Follow the signs to the exit. Many airports have a shuttle bus or a train to the city centre. A taxi is faster but more expensive: agree on the price or ask for the meter before you go.

location
transportation
transportation

Practise

Listen to the words of this lesson and repeat them.

Airport 7: Arrival

Land, pass immigration and customs and leave the airport: baggage claim, lost luggage, shuttle and taxi.

10 words, 2 phrases

  • aviation
  • transportation

Practise all the airport words

You made it: from the ticket at home to the taxi in a new city. This set has all the airport vocabulary of the series in the order of a trip. Listen to it and repeat the words.

Airport

71 words, 15 phrases

  • air travel
  • travel