1.
Vocabulary
Check-in (v)
Check-in counter (n): quầy check-in
VD: Can you show me the check-in counter of Vietnam Airlines?
Passport (n): hộ chiếu
ID card (n): căn cước công dân (identification document)
Departure (n): sự khởi hành, sự cất cánh
Depart (v) = leave (v): rời đi, rời khỏi, cất cánh (máy bay)
VD: What time does the plane depart?
Departure gate (n): cổng khởi hành
Departure time (n): thời gian khởi hành
VD: What is the departure time?
Boarding (n): việc lên máy bay/ đi lên tàu bay
Boarding time (n): thời gian có mặt để lên máy bay
Boarding pass (n): thẻ lên tàu bay/ vé máy bay = flight ticket (n)
VD: Can you give me another boarding pass? I lost it.
Get on the plane (v)
Direct flight (n): chuyến bay thẳng, bay trực tiếp
Connecting/ transit flight (n): chuyến bay quá cảnh
Throw away (v): vứt đi
VD: I accidentally threw my boarding pass away.
Liquid (n): chất lỏng
VD: You can’t take liquids on the plane.
The scale (n): cái cân
VD: Please put your bag on the scale.
Can you help me put my bags on the scale?
Customs (n): hải quan
VD: Do I have to go through customs?
Security (n): an ninh
VD: Do I have to take my jacket off when I go through security?
Go through (v): đi (xuyên) qua
Layover/ stopover (n): điểm trung chuyển, điểm quá cảnh, điểm tạm
dừng
VD: How long is our layover? => It’s about 3 hours.
luggage/ baggage (n): hành lý (ký gửi)
Carry-on luggage (n): hành lý xách tay = hand luggage (n)
VD: How many kilograms of carry-on luggage do I have? - 7kg.
How much carry-on luggage can I bring/do I have? => 7kg.
Boarding pass (n): thẻ lên tàu bay/ vé máy bay = flight ticket (n)
VD: Can you give me another boarding pass? I lost it.
Things = goods = products
Window seat (n): chỗ ngồi gần cửa sổ
Aisle seat (n): chỗ ngồi gần lối đi/ hành lang
Middle (adj): giữa => middle seat (n): chỗ ngồi ở giữa
Restroom (n) = WC
2. Structure
Have you ever been to the airport? - Yes, I have.
Can I have your passport, please? - Here you go./ Here you are./ Sure./ Certainly.
Where are you flying to today? - I’m flying to HCMC.
How many bags/suitcases/luggage are you checking in?
Would you like a window seat or an aisle seat? => I’d like a window seat.
What time does boarding start? => Boarding starts at 11:20.
You can’t take the liquids on the plane
Nếu là câu phủ định thì nhấn mạnh vào từ Can’t
Nếu là câu khằng định thì nhấn mạnh động từ sau từ Can
PLACES IN THE CITY
1. Vocabulary
Clothing store (n)/ clothes shop
Pharmacy (n): a place where you can buy medicines
Medicine (n): thuốc (phân biệt với drug)
Bakery (n): tiệm bánh
Biscuits / cookies (n): bánh quy
Bookstore (n)
Stationery (n): văn phòng phẩm (pen, pencil, eraser, ruler,...)
Cinema (n)
VD: I can buy popcorn, drinks, and movie tickets.
Would you like to go to the cinema with me?
School (n)
Comic books (n): truyện tranh
Borrow (v): mượn
VD: Can I borrow 500k?
Library (n): a place where you can borrow and read books
theater/theatre (n): nhà hát
Bank (n): a place where you can put money in, transfer money, or take
out a loan
Town hall (n): tòa thị chính, trụ sở chính của chính quyền địa phương
Sports center/centre (n): trung tâm thể thao
Stadium (n)
VD: Football is often played at the stadium.
Train station (n): nhà ga
Metro station (n): trạm tàu cao tốc
Bus station (n): bến xe buýt
Airport (n): sân bay
VD: I lost my Airpods at the airport.
Park (n): công viên
Park (v): đỗ xe
VD: You cannot park at the park.
Bridge (n): cây cầu
VD: Go across the bridge and turn right.
Statue (n): tượng
Farm (n): nông trại
Art gallery (n): phòng trưng bày nghệ thuật
church/ cathedral (n): nhà thờ
VD: I really like St.Joseph’s Cathedral in Hanoi.
2. Structures
I can buy …
VD: I can buy medicines, vitamins, and face masks.
Pay for sth (v): trả tiền cho 1 thứ gì đó
VD: Let me pay for this meal.
You forgot to pay for this coat.
Where can I find sth?
Too + adj: quá + tính từ
Nevermind then. Thế thì thôi vậy.
Thanks anyway. Dù sao thì cũng cảm ơn bạn.
By the way. Nhân tiện, tiện thể…
Take out a loan (v): mượn tiền, vay 1 khoản (từ ngân hàng)
ASKING AND GIVING DIRECTIONS
1. Vocabulary
Suggest (v): gợi ý, đề xuất
Road (n): đường (chung chung)
Street (n): đường (cụ thể)
Boulevard (n): đại lộ
Lane (n): hẻm, làn
VD: I live on Lane 27, Nguyen Chi Thanh Street.
This street has 3 lanes, one for bikes, one for motorbikes, and one for
cars.
Way (n): đường đi
VD: Can you tell me the way to Saint Paul Hospital?
I’m on my/the way to you.
Except (prep): ngoại trừ
Admission (n): sự cho vào, nhận vào
VD: Is the admission free? Vé vào có miễn phí không?
Go straight/ go straight ahead: đi thẳng
Continue to V
VD: continue to go straight.
Go along the …: đi dọc theo …
Turn left/ turn right
VD: Turn right on Trich Sai Street.
Turn left on HQV Street.
Take the … left/right
VD: Take the third right.
Take the fourth left.
Past (v): đi qua
Go past (v): đi ngang qua
Go through (v): đi xuyên qua
VD: Go through the tunnel.
Cross the street (v): đi qua đường
VD: I want to cross the street but I don’t see the zebra
line /crosswalk.
Go straight on past …/ Go past …
VD: Go straight on past the hospital and turn right on HTK Street.
Junction (n): nút giao, giao lộ = intersection
VD: At the junction between HTK and HQV, turn right on HQV
Street.
Roundabout (n): vòng xuyến, bùng binh
Take the first/second/third exit at the roundabout.
Take the … Street at the roundabout.
Make a U turn. Vòng ngược lại.
Turn around: quay ngược lại
Tunnel (n): hầm
VD: Go through the Kim Lien tunnel, and turn right on TC Street.
Traffic light (n): đèn giao thông
Traffic (n): giao thông
VD: The traffic was crazy today. I got stuck in a traffic jam for 30
minutes.
Traffic jam (n): kẹt xe, tắc đường
North (n): Bắc
VD: The North Face
South (n): Nam
VD: South Korea is famous for K-Pop idols.
East (n): Đông
VD: The East Sea is on the right of my country.
West (n): Tây
VD: The Western culture is very interesting.
Opposite (adj): đối diện
2. Structures
Where do you suggest I go?
Where is it?
Excuse me, where is …?
VD: Excuse me, where is the nearest hospital?
Can you tell me the way to …?
Do you know the way to …?
VD: Do you know the way to Haidilao restaurant?
You have gone too far. Bạn đi quá rồi.
The A is right before the B. A ở ngay đăng trước B (đến A trước rồi
mới thấy B).
A little bit: một chút
VD: Continue to go straight for a little bit more.