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  • exercise nineteen

  • At the airport

  • Tara is going to visit her friend in Germany

  • to get there from England she has to take a flight in an aeroplane

  • So now she is at the airport

  • The first thing she did when she got there

  • was to leave her car at

  • the long-term car park

  • This is a special car park where travellers can leave their cars

  • for over a week

  • Now

  • she has gone to the part of the airport where she will start her flight

  • This is the passenger terminal

  • The part of the terminal she is looking for

  • is called departures

  • The other part of the terminal is Arrivals

  • and this deals with travellers whose flight has just brought them to the airport

  • Once she gets to departures

  • Tara takes a quick look at the flight announcements

  • Good her flight is still on time

  • and there are no delays

  • Because she wants to have plenty of time before her flight

  • Tara goes straight to the check-in

  • desk

  • She is very early

  • so there is no queue

  • At the desk she shows the ticket for her flight

  • and hands over her suitcase

  • The baggage

  • allowance for her flights is just twenty-five kilograms

  • So Tara has been careful not to pack too much

  • If her suitcase were too heavy

  • Tata would have to pay an

  • excess baggage fee. Now hersuitcase is taken

  • away to be carried in the plane's cargo

  • Tara has marked a big cross on her suitcase

  • so she will be able to recognize it easily when it arrives on the luggage

  • carousel for her to collect at Munich airport

  • After she has checked in Tara is given a boarding pass which will allow her

  • onto the aeroplane

  • Now Tara has to go through security and emigration

  • She checks the regulations

  • and makes sure

  • that she has no dangerous objects such as liquid or aerosols in the bag which she

  • will be taking onto the aeroplane as

  • carry-on baggage

  • She also checks again that she has her passport to show at emigration

  • Once she has gone through security she passes through a scanner to make sure

  • she has no metal objects in her pockets

  • Her bag goes through a special x-ray machine

  • which checks that too

  • Now she is in the flight side part of the airport

  • If there's anything she has forgotten on the public side

  • it is too late now

  • But Tara thinks she has remembered everything

  • She checks her boarding pass to see at what gate she will find her plane

  • Because her gate is on the other side of the airport

  • she has to take a shuttle train

  • Fortunately

  • it is not crowded

  • Tara knows that she might have to wait for a while in the departure lounge

  • next to the gate before she boards the aeroplane

  • so she decides to have something to drink while she is waiting

  • Then

  • when she hears the announcement that her flight is boarding

  • she hands in her boarding pass to the flight attendant and walks down to the runway

  • where her plane is waiting

  • Have a good flight Tara

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exercise nineteen

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