Airport Departures
How to do this listening activity: (1) Study the Vocabulary at the bottom of the page; (2) read the Departures board on the left; (3) listen to the recording; (4) choose TRUE or FALSE for the ten sentences; (5) click on 'Let's GO' to find your score and the correct answers; (6) listen again with the Script.
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Vocabulary
Departures: 'Departures' is the noun form of 'depart' which means 'leave'. The departures board at an airport will tell you important information about the airplane you will travel on.
Time: 'Time' means the time that the airplane will leave the airport.
To: 'To' means the place where the airplane is flying to.
Flight No.: 'Flight' is the noun form of 'fly'. It means the airplane. 'No.' is the short way to write 'number'.
It is the number of the airplane.
It is the number of the airplane.
Gate: 'Gate' means the door number that you should go to.
Remarks: 'Remarks' means special information that you need to know about the flight.
On Time: 'On Time' means that there are no changes to the flight. It is not late.
Delayed: 'Delayed' means that the flight is late. Sometimes a flight can be delayed by 30 minutes, one hour,
or even longer.
or even longer.
Cancelled: 'Cancelled' means that you should talk to the check-in desk and make new plans to fly on another plane.
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