English vocabulary for travelling by plane exercise part 2

Lift:
(noun) A 'lift' is the commonly used word for taking somebody in your car/motorbike to a certain place (e.g. airport, school, work, home, centre of town etc...). 'lift' is generally used with the verb 'to give'. When using it with the verb 'to give', you use 'to give' first, then the name or pronoun of the person/people (e.g. 'Simon', 'her' etc...), then 'a lift', then the preposition 'to' if you use the place where you will take them, e.g. 'I gave them a lift to the airport' or 'can you give me a lift to work?'.

'lift' can also be with the verb 'to want' when asking somebody if you can take them somewhere in your car (e.g. 'do you want a lift?'). It has a similar meaning to 'to drop somebody off', but 'to drop somebody off' means that only the passenger(s) leaves the car and the driver doesn't. 'to give somebody a lift' could mean that both the passenger(s) and driver leave the car at the place or only the passenger(s) does.

In Spanish: "llevar alguien en un coche".

Lift:

Flying with:
(verb & prep) The infinitive is 'to fly with'. You use this when you are asking or telling somebody the name of the airline/company that you are travelling with. The airline/company goes after the preposition 'with'. For example 'I'm flying with British Airways'. You use 'to fly to' to tell someone which place/airport you are going to (e.g. 'He flew to Gatwick') and 'to fly from' to say which place you came from (e.g. 'I'm flying from Heathrow').

In Spanish: "volar con".

Flying with:

For the day:
(phrase) 'for the day' is used when somebody is visiting a place/city/country and will only be there during the day (not staying overnight or returning the next day). You use 'for the day' after 'to be here/there', e.g. 'I'm here for the day'. You can also use 'the week', 'the month' or 'two days' instead of 'the day', e.g. 'he's there for the week'.

In Spanish: "pasar el dia".

For the day:

Drop you off:
(phrasal verb) The infinitive is 'to drop somebody off'. In this context it means to drive/take somebody in your car/motorbike to a place (e.g. airport, work, train station etc...) and then they leave the car and you drive somewhere else (e.g. to return home, a car park, work etc...). This a transitive and separable phrasal verb, so the person/people who are going to leave has to be used and generally goes between the verb and the particle (e.g. 'drop Simon off' or 'drop them off').

If you want to say the place they left/were dropped off, the phrasal verb is followed by the preposition 'at' and the place, e.g. 'his flight leaves tonight and I'm going to drop him off at the airport'. It has a similar meaning to 'to give somebody a lift', but 'to drop somebody off' means that only the passenger(s) leaves the car and the driver doesn't and 'to give somebody a lift' could mean that both the passenger(s) and driver leave the car at the place or only the passenger(s) does.

When you drive to a place (e.g. airport, work, train station etc...) to collect somebody, so they can enter your car/motorbike to go to another place (e.g. home etc...), you use the phrasal verb 'to pick up', e.g. 'his flight arrives tonight and I'm going to pick him up from the airport'.

In Spanish: "dejar".

Drop you off:

Land:
(verb) The infinitive is 'to land'. This is a different way to say that a flight/plane 'arrives' at an airport. It literally means that the plane stops flying in the air and is now on the ground/land, e.g. 'the plane lands at 7.30'. The opposite of 'to land' is 'to take off', when a plane leaves the airport and starts to fly in the air.

In Spanish: "aterrizar".

Land:

Hand luggage:
(noun) 'hand luggage' or 'hand baggage' in American English is the name for a bag(s) that you take/carry on to the plane when you board/get on it. These are the bags that don't have to be checked in and placed in the cargo hold in the bottom part of the plane (these bags are called 'hold luggage/baggage'). Some airlines have restrictions on the size of the 'hand luggage' that passengers can take on board the plane with them.

In Spanish: "equipaje de mano".

Hand luggage:

Pick me up:
(phrasal verb) The infinitive is 'to pick somebody up'. In this context it means to drive to a place (e.g. airport, work, train station etc...) to collect somebody, so they can enter your car/motorbike to go to another place (e.g. home etc...). This a transitive and separable phrasal verb, so the person/people who are going to be collected has to be used and generally goes between the verb and the particle (e.g. 'pick Simon up' or 'pick them up').

If you want to say the place they were collected/picked up, the phrasal verb is followed by the preposition 'from' and the place, e.g. 'his flight arrives tonight and I'm going to pick him up from the airport'. When you drive/take somebody in your car/motorbike to a certain place (e.g. airport, school, work etc...) and they leave the car/motorbike, you use 'to drop somebody off', e.g. 'I dropped them off at the airport'.

In Spanish: "recoger".

Pick me up:

Checked in:
(phrasal verb) The infinitive is 'to check in'. In this context it means to confirm that you going to take the flight. Normally, this happens a few hours before the flight/plane is scheduled to take off/leave the airport. Although you can do it at a desk in the airport which is called 'check in' (you have to do this if you have bags/luggage which you are going to leave in the plane's cargo hold), it is now common for people who are only taking hand luggage to do it online, on the internet. With both methods, you receive a boarding card, which you need to board/get on the plane.

This is an intransitive verb (it has no object), e.g. 'I've already checked in online'. This phrasal verb is also used when you are going to put your bags/luggage in the cargo hold at the bottom of the plane, e.g 'I'd like to check in two bags'.

In Spanish: "facturar".

Checked in:

Get back:
(phrasal verb) The infinitive is 'to get back'. In this context it is an informal way of saying 'arrive' in your own city, home or office when are you are visiting another place. When you use this phrasal verb, you normally give a time when you arrived or expect to, e.g. 'If there are no traffic jams, I should get back home at 7.30'. This is an intransitive phrasal verb (it has no object), e.g. 'he got back to the office at 12.10'. The exception is with 'home', which doesn't need the preposition 'to' to connect it to the phrasal verb, e.g. 'I'll get back home at 7.30'.

In Spanish: "volver/regresar".

Get back:

Set off:
(phrasal verb) The infinitive is 'to set off'. In this context it is an informal and commonly used way of saying 'leave' a place and 'start' a journey. When you use this phrasal verb, you normally give a time when you left or expect to, e.g. 'I'll set off tomorrow morning at 6.30'. This is an intransitive phrasal verb (it has no object), e.g. 'I set off from home at 12.10'. If you want to say the place where you started your journey, you use the preposition 'from' after the phrasal verb and then the name of the place (e.g. 'from the office', 'from home' etc...).

In Spanish: "salir".

Set off: