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Conversation Questions/IELTS Conversation Questions Travel

Have you ever been abroad? Where have you been? Are you planning on going anywhere for your next vacation? o If so, where? o Who with? o How long will you stay? Are you afraid of going abroad alone? Could you live in another country for the rest of your life? Describe the most interesting person you met on one of your travels. Describe your best trip. Describe your worst trip. Did your class in high school go on a trip together? o If so, where did you go? o How long did you stay? o How did you get there? Do you have a driver's license? Do you like to travel with children? Why or why not? Do you like to travel with your mother? Why or why not? Do you prefer summer vacations or winter vacations? Do you prefer to travel alone or in a group? Why? Do you prefer to travel by train, bus, plane or ship? Do you prefer traveling by car or by plane? Have you ever been in a difficult situation while traveling? Have you ever been on an airplane? o How many times? o What airlines have you flown with? Have you ever been to a foreign country? Have you ever gotten lost while traveling? If so, tell about it. Have you ever hitchhiked? If so, how many times? Have you ever taken a package tour? How do you spend your time when you are on holiday and the weather is bad? How many countries have you been to? How many states? How many times have you traveled abroad? How much luggage do you usually carry? If you traveled to South America, what countries would like to visit? If you were going on a camping trip for a week, what 10 things would you bring? Explain why. What are some countries that you would never visit? Why would you not visit them? What are some things that you always take with you on a trip? What countries would you like to visit? Why? What countries would you most like to visit? What countries would you not like to visit? Why? What country do you most want to visit? o Why? o Do you think you will ever go there? What do you need before you can travel to another country? What is the most interesting city to visit in your country? What is the most interesting souvenir that you have ever bought on one of your holidays? What place do you want to visit someday? What was the most interesting place you have ever visited? What's the most beautiful place you've ever been to? When was the last time your traveled? When you are on a long car journey do you play games or sing songs to occupy your time? o What kind of games?
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Conversation Questions/IELTS Conversation Questions Travel

Where are you going to go the next time you travel? o When are you going to go? o Who are you going to go with? o How long are you going to go for? o What are you going to do there? o What kind of things do you think you will buy? Where did you go on your last vacation? o How did you go? o Who did you go with? Where did you spend your last vacation? Your summer vacation? Your Christmas vacation? Where will you go on your next vacation? Would you like to take a cruise? Where to? With who? Do you prefer traveling on a hovercraft or a ferry? Would you prefer to stay at a hotel/motel or camp while on vacation? Would you rather visit another country or travel within your own country? Would you rather go to a place where there are a lot of people or to a place where there are few people? Do you find more fulfillment from your leisure activities including vacations than from your job? Do you think the type of vacation one takes reflects one's social status? What are popular tourist destinations in your country? o Have you been to any of them? o Which would you recommend if you could only recommend one? Why? Do you prefer active or relaxing holidays? Why? Which is better, package tour or a tour you organize and book yourself? Why do you travel? o Why do people travel? Would you like to go back to the same place? Did you find anything of particular interest? / Did you get attracted to anything special? What are some benefits of travel? o Why do people travel? What is your favorite mode of travel? Have you travelled in business class? When you were a child did your family take a vacation every year? Do you prefer a budget or first class hotel? Why? Do you travel with a lot of baggage or do you like to travel light? What is your favorite method of travel at your destination? Train? Bus? Boat? Bicycle? Backpacking? What is the best kind of holiday for different ages of people? i.e. Children, teenagers, adults, elderly people Do you think it is a good idea to travel with friends, or alone? How about with your family? If you had $100,000, where would you go on holiday? How about if you had $10,000? What about $1,000? Which countries have you travelled to? Do you prefer hot countries or cool countries when you go on holiday Who makes the decisions when your family decides to go on holiday If you could choose one place to go this weekend, where would it be? (could be anywhere in the world) Has the airline ever lost your luggage? What happened? On long flights do you usually walk around the plane to avoid health problems? Have you ever read an interesting question in an in-flight magazine? What was it? Is there any difference between young tourists and adult tourists? Do you think tourism will harm the earth?

The words below are some of the most important used when talking about Travel.
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Travel - Air airport check-in fly land landing plane take off Travel - General Related Words destination journey passenger route travel travel agent trip Travel - Holidays camp go camping charger flight cruise excursion (youth) hostel hotel luggage
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Conversation Questions/IELTS Conversation Questions Travel


motel package holiday self-catering holiday sightseeing go sightseeing suitcase tour tourism tourist vacation Travel - Land bicycle bike bus bus station car coach coach station lane motorbike motorway rail go by rail railway railway station road

main road minor road taxi traffic train tube underground subway Travel - Sea boat crossing ferry port sail sea set sail ship voyage Travel - Verbs board (boat / plane) go by go on board get on board hitch-hike set off

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package tour hitchhike backpacking vacation hovercraft travel holiday prefer traveling souvenir traveled someday tourist visit country luggage motel relaxing

a holiday at a fixed price in which the travel company arranges your travel, hotels and sometimes meals for you to travel by getting free rides in someone else's vehicle travelling or camping with your clothes and belongings in a backpack a holiday, especially when you are travelling away from home for pleasure a vehicle which flies over land or water by keeping close to the surface and producing a current of air under it to support it to make a journey, usually over a long distance a time, often one or two weeks, when someone does not go to work or school but is free to do what they want, such as travel or relax to like, choose or want one thing rather than another the activity of making journeys; travel something you buy or keep to help you remember a holiday or special event describes a journey or route that many/few people travel on at some time in the future which is not yet known or not stated someone who visits a place for pleasure and interest, usually while they are on holiday to go to a place in order to look at it, or to a person in order to spend time with them an area of land considered in relation to a particular feature the bags, cases, etc. which contain your possessions and that you take with you when you are travelling a hotel by the side of a road, usually with spaces for cars next to each room making you feel relaxed

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Conversation Questions/IELTS Conversation Questions Travel


trip walk around tourism fulfilment interesting destination first class bus airline teenager travelled package go on tour camping foreigner adult describe abroad plane bicycle going organize stay South America anywhere recommend airplane ferry favorite cruise interest kind of go with sb/sth go to year weekend baggage elderly
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a journey in which you go somewhere, usually for a short time, and come back again to move along by putting one foot in front of the other, allowing each foot to touch the ground before lifting the next in a position or direction surrounding, or in a direction going along the edge of or from one part to another (of) the business of providing services such as transport, places to stay or entertainment for people who are on holiday a feeling of pleasure because you are getting what you want from life Someone or something that is interesting keeps your attention because they are unusual, exciting, or have a lot of ideas the place where someone is going or where something is being sent or taken relating to the highest quality service on a plane, train, or in a hotel a large vehicle in which people are driven from one place to another a business that operates regular services for carrying passengers and/or goods by aircraft a young person between 13 and 19 years old describes a journey or route that many/few people travel on a related group of things when they are offered together as a single unit a visit to a place or area, especially one during which you look round the place or area and learn about it when you stay in a tent on holiday a person who comes from another country a person or animal that has grown to full size and strength to say or write what someone or something is like in or to a foreign country or countries designed for air travel, which has wings and one or more engines a two-wheeled vehicle that you sit on and move by turning the two pedals to travel or move to another place to make arrangements for something to happen to not move away from or leave the continent that is to the south of North America, to the west of the Atlantic Ocean and to the east of the Pacific Ocean in, to or at any place or some place (especially in questions or negatives) to suggest that someone or something would be good or suitable for a particular job or purpose, or to suggest that a particular action should be done a vehicle designed for air travel, which has wings and one or more engines a boat or ship for taking passengers and often vehicles across an area of water, especially as a regular service a thing that someone likes best or enjoys most a journey on a large ship for pleasure, during which you visit several places If someone or something interests you, you want to give them your attention and discover more about them used when you are trying to explain or describe something, but you cannot be exact to accept an idea or agree with a person

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to be given or sold to someone a period of twelve months, especially from January 1st to December 31st Saturday and Sunday, or Friday evening until Sunday night; the part of the week in which many people living in the West do not go to work all the cases and bags that you take with you when you travel; luggage POLITE WORD FOR old

noun adjective

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Conversation Questions/IELTS Conversation Questions Travel


license buy status planning class leisure high school hotel summer car driver budget family camp game decide Christmas train magazine spend attract sing activity reflect worst lost cool benefit go back another decision weather popular rather avoid live lose occupy journey method difference difficult health afraid
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verb noun verb noun adjective adjective noun Phrasal erb noun verb adjective adverb verb verb verb verb noun noun noun adjective noun adjective

an official document which gives you permission to own, do or use something, usually after you have paid money and/or taken a test to get something by paying money for it an accepted or official position, especially in a social group the act of deciding how to do something a group into which goods, services or people are put according to their standard the time when you are not working or doing other duties a school in the US for children aged from 14 to 18, or from 16 to 18 if there is also a junior high school a building where you pay to have a room to sleep in, and where you can eat meals the season of the year between spring and autumn when the weather is warmest, a road vehicle with an engine, four wheels, and seats for a small number of people someone who drives a vehicle a plan to show how much money a person or organization will earn and how much they will need or be able to spend a group of people who are related to each other, such as a mother, a father, and their children a place where people stay in tents or other temporary structures an entertaining activity or sport, especially one played by children, or the equipment needed for such an activity to choose something, especially after thinking carefully about several possibilities (the period just before and after) 25 December, a Christian holy day which celebrates the birth of Jesus Christ a railway engine connected to carriages for carrying people or wheeled containers for carrying goods a type of thin book with large pages and a paper cover which contains articles and photographs and is published every week or month to give money as a payment for something (of people, things, places, etc.) to pull or draw someone or something towards them, by the qualities they have, especially good ones to make musical sounds with the voice, usually a tune with words something that is done for enjoyment, especially an organized event to think carefully, especially about possibilities and opinions the most unpleasant or difficult thing, person, or situation If something is lost, no one knows where it is calm and not worried or frightened; not influenced by strong feeling of any type a helpful or good effect, or something intended to help to return a choice that you make about something after thinking about several possibilities to deal successfully with a difficult situation or a problem liked, enjoyed or supported by many people quite; to a slight degree to stay away from someone or something, or prevent something from happening or not allow yourself to do something (to continue) to be alive or have life to no longer have something because you do not know where it is, or because it has been taken away from you to keep someone busy or interested the act of travelling from one place to another, especially in a vehicle a particular way of doing something the way in which two or more things which you are comparing are not the same needing skill or effort; not easy the condition of the body and the degree to which it is free from illness, or the state of being well feeling fear, or feeling worry about the possible results of a

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Conversation Questions/IELTS Conversation Questions Travel


situation winter special hot social job particular problem language choose explain group fly beautiful boat Earth bring play happen plan
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particular situation the set of things that are happening and the conditions that exist at a particular time and place the season between autumn and spring, lasting from November to March having a particular purpose or usual having a high temperature relating to activities in which you meet and spend time with other people and which happen during the time when you are not working special, or this and not any other a situation, person or thing that needs attention and needs to be dealt with or solved a system of communication consisting of sounds, words and grammar, or the system of communication used by the people of a particular country or profession to decide what you want from two or more things or possibilities to make something clear or easy to understand by describing or giving information about it a number of people or things that are put together or considered as a unit to travel by aircraft, or to go somewhere or cross something in an aircraft very attractive , very pleasant a small vehicle for travelling on water the planet third in order of distance from the Sun, between Venus and Mars ; the world on which we live to take or carry someone or something to a place or a person, or in the direction of the person speaking When you play, especially as a child, you spend time doing an enjoyable and/or entertaining activity (of a situation or an event) to have existence or come into existence a set of decisions about how to do something in the future

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