[Music] hello English Learners welcome back to English pod my name is Marco and I'm Erica and today we're going to be taking you to the airport that's right we're going to listen as a man um checks in at the airport and uh deals with his luggage that's right so we're going to be looking at a lot of great stuff that can help you the next time you are at the airport at the check-in counter so why don't we take a look at one word that we're going to preview today in vocabulary preview vocabulary preview we're
going to hear this guy say I'd like to check three pieces he's going to check three pieces of what pieces of luggage so when we talk about luggage we can say pieces of luggage that's right luggage is a non-count noun so you can't say one luggage two luggages three luggages that's wrong right so we use pieces of luggage okay so three pieces of luggage mhm very good let's listen to our dialogue for the first time we're going to see what happens with this guy at the airport and with his pieces of luggage next please hello
sir may I see your passport please yes uh here you go will you be checking any bags today yes I'd like to check three pieces I'm sorry sir airline policy only allows two pieces of check luggage at 20 kg each plus one piece of carryon luggage I will have to charge you extra for the additional suitcase what why I'm taking an InterContinental flight I'm flying 16,000 kilm how am I supposed to take only two 20 kilo bags that's absurd I'm sorry sir there's nothing I can do you cannot board the flight with that large bag
either carryon bags must fit in the overhead compartment or under your seat that bag is clearly too big now I see you charge your next to nothing for an international ticket when it comes to charging for any other small thing you charge an arm and a leg so tell me Miss how much will I have to pay for all of this let's see $625 that's more than my round trip ticket all right well that's a whole lot of money isn't it well I think it's a very common situation I'm sure many of our listeners can
relate to this situation overweight charges are pretty expensive very high I know from personal experience but that's not what we want want to talk about now we want to talk about some really useful vocabulary in language takeaway language takeaway all right on language takeaway today we have five words so why don't we start with the first one so the woman asked will you be checking any bags today will you be checking any bags today to check bags right so the verb to check it means to uh to give your bags to the airl line to
register them okay so that's what happens with your luggage you check them so basically they become responsible for your bags right it reminds me of checking into a hotel right very similar when you go to a hotel you register at the hotel you check in in this case you just check your luggage you don't check in your luggage right okay so check luggage so he wanted to check three pieces of luggage and he also had carry on luggage carry on luggage carryon so carryon luggage it's pretty simple that's right you carry it on yourself exactly
you carry it onto the plane now we can we can talk about carryon luggage right mhm or carry-on bag right or a carry-on suitcase a very small suitcase that can fit under your seat exactly all right so carryon luggage now he was traveling on an InterContinental flight Intercontinental intercon Al we have two words there inter between between right and Continental so this sounds like continent okay so he's traveling maybe from asah mhm to North America okay InterContinental he's trying to board this InterContinental flight so to board a flight board a plane board a train all
right so basically it means to to get on to get on to get on a vehicle Okay so I can say board the ship mhm board the car no no no but board the board the train board the train board the Bus All Aboard that's right that's why in movies you see that somebody will yell All Aboard y in the train station right exactly all aboard okay so board a vehicle and our last phrase for today overhead compartment overhead compartment overhead compartment all right let's let's break this phrase down um overhead so that's on top
of your head right exactly yeah above you yeah and the compartment is um a place where you can put something and store it m kind of like a box right yeah so you have an overhead compartment that big box where you put your bags and your purse or whatever on an airplane MH very similar to for example an overhead projector right so that's the machine that uh puts an image or a picture on a wall like sometimes you see them in meetings right so because the image is over your head and it's big it's called
an overhead projector okay so some great language why don't we hear it again in context by listening to the dialogue for the second time next please hello sir may I see your passport please yes here you go will you be checking any bags today yes I'd like to check three pieces I'm sorry sir Airline Poli policy allows only two pieces of checked luggage at 20 kg each plus one piece of carry-on luggage I will have to charge you extra for the additional suitcase what why I'm taking an InterContinental flight I'm flying 16,000 kilm how am
I supposed to take only two 20 kilo bags that's absurd I'm sorry sir there's nothing I can do you cannot board the flight with that large bag either carry-on bags must fit in the overhead compartment or under your seat that bag is clearly too big now I see you charge next to nothing for an international ticket but when it comes to charging for any other small thing you charge an arm and a leg so tell me Miss how much will I have to pay for all this let's see $625 us that's more than my roundtrip
ticket all right so I think it's a little bit more clear now and with this it's time for us to take a look at some great phrases in putting it together putting it together so this guy was pretty angry about uh this airline policy and he said how am I supposed to how am I supposed to how am I supposed to okay so before we get into explaining this why don't we listen to a couple of examples so we can try and understand what it means example one how am I supposed to fit the dog
in the car there are 10 people in there already example two how is she supposed to get to work if her car's in the shop example three how are we supposed to know the answer to that it's impossible okay so I can understand that it means how can I do this right how do you expect me to do this how is it possible for me to do this very good it's a phrase you use when you're frustrated right yeah exactly you're maybe a little bit frustrated or you're maybe nervous of of something that you can't
do or don't know how yeah this phrase It's not impolite but it sort of gives the idea that you're challenging the other person a little bit maybe yeah okay so a good phrase that you can use on in different situations and you can try and mix it up with different verbs right right all right now let's take a look at our next phrase I'm sorry sir there's nothing I can do there's nothing I can do there's nothing I can do there's nothing I can do so basically the woman can't help the man even though he's
insist in and he's pushing that he wants another solution right so finally she says I'm sorry there's nothing I can do so we use this phrase um when someone's pushing you too much right right and you would use it only in that situation towards the end because it is a little bit it's it's strong it's not in plight but it's just you're saying you know what I'm sorry there's I can't do anything about it now let's move on to our third phrase you charge next to nothing next to nothing next to nothing next to nothing
all right so we're talking about charging we're talking about money why don't we listen to some examples of what this next to nothing phrase means example one do you like my new house it was so cheap that it almost cost next to nothing example two let's go to Thailand tickets cost next to nothing right now example three the real estate agent charged me next to nothing for his commission so I got a really good deal so when something costs next to nothing it's really cheap right it's really cheap or you consider it to be cheap
mhm and now for our last phrase It's the complete opposite of next to nothing right charge an arm and a leg an arm and a leg an arm and a leg all right so this means it's really expensive it's so expensive it's like giving your arm and your leg right to pay for it yeah very good so next to nothing really cheap an arm and a leg really expensive can we look at the use here um all right so in the dialogue we heard you charge an arm and a leg but we can also say
it costs an arm and a leg right because we are referring to money mhm right all right so some great phrases here now I think it's time we listen to our dialogue one more [Music] time next please hello sir may I see your passport please yes uh here you go will you be checking any bags today yes I'd like to check three pieces I'm sorry sir airline policy only allows two pieces of check luggage at 20 kg each each plus one piece of carryon luggage I will have to charge you extra for the additional suitcase
what why I'm taking an InterContinental flight I'm flying 16,000 km how am I supposed to take only two 20 kilo bags that's absurd I'm sorry sir there's nothing I can do you cannot board the flight with that large bag either carry-on bags must fit in the overhead compartment or under your seat that bag is clearly too big now I see you charge your next to nothing for an international TI ticket when it comes to charging for any other small thing you charge an arm and a leg so tell me Miss how much will I have
to pay for all of this let's see $625 that's more than my round trip ticket okay so Airline policies luggage it's always a problem right most of the time you always end up paying overweight when you travel yeah um I know that this happened to me once and it was really expensive really what happened I was flying on an InterContinental flight from from India back to Europe and um I had too many extra bags but I really needed to bring them and so it cost me $6,000 $66,000 wow so my credit card was pretty maxed
out after that that's incredible yeah well I'm sure many of our users probably suffered similar experiences like this so please come to our website and share it with us at englishpod do.com that's right Mark and I are always around to answer your questions so please check us out and thanks for downloading you guys until next time [Music] goodbye the English pod audio review listen to the meaning then say the vocabulary word a document showing the identity of someone when outside his country passport register bags with the airline and give them to be put on the
plane check piece of luggage one bag piece the bags that one can carry on to the plane carry on luggage between continents InterContinental get on the plane board very cheap inexpensive next to nothing phrase used to indicate that something is very expensive an arm and a leg a device that that senses the presence of metal metal detector a pass that authorizes passengers to get on an airplane boarding pass an instrument or machine for weighing scale a short stop or break in a journey usually imposed by scheduling requirements layover a trip from one place to another
and back usually over the same route round trip let's try that faster the bags that one can carry on to the plane carry on luggage a document showing the identity of someone when outside his country passport register bags with the airline and give them to be put on the plane check between continents InterContinental an instrument or machine for weighing scale a device that senses the presence of metal metal detector piece of luggage one bag peace a short stop or break in a journey usually imposed by scheduling [Music] requirements layover a pass that authorizes passengers to
get on an airplane boarding pass very cheap inexpensive next to nothing a trip from one place to another and back usually over the same route round trip phrase used to indicate that something is very expensive an arm and a leg get on the plane bored now say the word and hear it in a sentence it's absurd to think that the world will end in 2012 he made one of the most absurd comments I've ever heard that's absurb I never cheated on my wife next to nothing do you like my new house it was so cheap
it costs next to nothing next to nothing let's go to Thailand tickets cost next to nothing right now next to nothing the real estate agent charged me next to nothing for his commission so I got a really good deal an arm and a leg be careful with the new carpet it cost me an arm and a leg an arm and a leg can you believe how expensive homes are in New York it'll cost you an arm and a leg to buy a small house an arm and a leg we paid an arm and a leg
for our new home theater and then got stolen check Frank was at the airport 3 hours before his flight because he had to check a lot of luggage check excuse me is this the counter where I can check oversized luggage check most Airlines only allow one piece of luggage to be checked how am I supposed to fit the dog in the car there are 10 people in there already how am I supposed to get to work if her car is in the shop how are we supposed to know the answer to that it's impossible [Music]
