✈️ Voyages et transports en anglais

Travelling and transport

Knowing how to talk about travel and transport is essential in English. Whether you are booking a trip, asking for directions or describing a journey, this vocabulary is always useful.

Means of transport

Means of transport (les moyens de transport) : *a plane / an aeroplane* (un avion), *a train* (un train), *a bus / a coach* (un bus / un car), *a car* (une voiture), *a bike / a bicycle* (un vélo), *a boat / a ferry* (un bateau / un ferry), *a motorbike* (une moto), *a taxi* (un taxi), *the underground / the tube / the metro* (le métro), *a tram* (un tramway).

means of transport

At the airport and at the station

At the airport : *to check in* (s'enregistrer), *a boarding pass* (carte d'embarquement), *a departure / arrival* (un départ / une arrivée), *a gate* (une porte d'embarquement), *luggage / baggage* (les bagages - singulier en anglais), *customs* (la douane), *a passport* (un passeport).

At the train station : *a platform* (un quai), *a ticket* (un billet), *a return ticket* (un billet aller-retour), *a single ticket* (un billet simple), *to board* (monter dans le train), *delayed* (en retard), *on time* (à l'heure).

boarding pass platform

Asking for and giving directions

To ask for directions : *Excuse me, how do I get to...? / Where is the...? / Could you tell me the way to...?*

To give directions : *Turn left / right* (tournez à gauche/droite), *go straight on* (allez tout droit), *take the first/second street on the left/right*, *it's on your left/right*, *it's opposite* (c'est en face), *it's next to* (c'est à côté de), *it's about 5 minutes away* (c'est à environ 5 minutes).

Useful expressions for travelling

• ▸*to book / to reserve a ticket* : réserver un billet
• ▸*to miss the train/bus* : rater le train/bus
• ▸*to get on / get off* (the bus/train) : monter dans / descendre du bus ou du train
• ▸*a journey* : un trajet, un voyage (durée ou distance)
• ▸journey