Unit 2: Travel and Transport Vocabulary
Unit : Travel and Transport Topic Vocabulary
This unit focuses on the nuanced vocabulary relevant to travel and transport, categorizing terms into contrastive meanings, phrasal verbs, collocations, word patterns, and morphological formations. The content is part of a larger study guide, specifically detailed on Page and referenced against definitions on Page .
The Topic Vocabulary in Contrast section highlights pairs and groups of words that are frequently confused. These include voyage, journey, trip, travel, and excursion, which describe different types of movement or outings. Other contrasted pairs include fare, ticket, and fee; view and sight; world and earth; area and territory; season and period; and miss and lose. The list also distinguishes between take, bring, and go; book and keep; arrive and reach; live and stay; border, edge, and line; length and distance; guide and lead; and native and home.
Phrasal Verbs in Travel and Transport
Phrasal verbs are essential for describing the mechanics of travel and typical occurrences on a journey. Catch up with means to reach the same point or level as someone else. Check in refers to registering at a hotel or airport, while check out means to either leave a hotel or to investigate something. Drop off can mean letting someone get out of a vehicle or the act of falling asleep. Get back signifies returning from a place, and go away is defined as going on holiday.
Additional phrasal verbs include keep up with, which is to stay at the same point or level as another. Make for signifies moving in the direction of a specific location. Pick up means stopping in a vehicle to provide a lift to someone. Pull in is the act of stopping by the side of the road in a car. Run over is defined as hitting something or someone with a vehicle. See off means to go to a station or airport to witness someone’s departure. Set out or set off signifies the start of a journey. Take off specifically refers to a vehicle leaving the ground, and turn round indicates moving back in the opposite direction.
Phrases and Collocations
Phonetic and structural collocations help in building natural-sounding English. For accidents, one may have an accident, be involved in an accident, or do something by accident. Advance collocations include being in advance or advancing to/towards a place. The word ahead is used in going straight ahead, going ahead, or being ahead of someone or something. Direction collocations include a change of direction, in the direction of something, or in this or that direction. The word head appears in off the top of your head, heading for or towards a place, and the idiom head over heels in love.
Holiday collocations involve going or being on holiday, having or taking a holiday, or a bank holiday. Left-related phrases include going or turning left, being on the left, being on the left-hand side, or in the left-hand corner, as well as being left-handed. For routes, one can plan a route or take a route. Sights are associated with seeing the sights, while sightseeing is used with the verb go. Speed collocations include being at high or full speed, a burst of speed, and the speed limit. Tours can involve going on or taking a tour of or around somewhere, touring a place, or the use of a tour guide. Trip collocations include business trips, school trips, going on a trip, or taking a trip to a place. Finally, way includes losing, making, or finding your way, being in a way, being on the way, or going all the way to a destination.
Word Patterns
Word patterns define the grammatical structures that follow specific verbs or adjectives. Afraid can be followed by of something/somebody/doing or to do. Appear typically follows the pattern appear to be. Arrange is used as arrange something with somebody or arrange for somebody to do. Arrive is followed by in or at a place, or simply here/there. Continue can be followed by something/doing, to do, or with something. Differ is used with from something or somebody. Dream is followed by about or of something/somebody/doing.
Other patterns include invite somebody to do, and being keen to do or keen on something/somebody/doing. Live is used with in/at a place, on/for something, or here/there. Regret can be followed by (not) doing, by a direct object (regret something), or the formal regret to tell/inform you. Think is used with of or about something/somebody/doing. Write involves complex patterns such as writing about something/somebody/doing, writing something to somebody, writing somebody something, or the phrasal form write something down.
Word Formation
The morphological derivation of words in this unit shows how roots expand into different parts of speech. Arrange leads to arrangement, while arrive leads to arrival. Broad expands into breadth and broaden. Culture forms cultural(ly) and cultured or uncultured. Differ leads to different(ly) and difference. Distant results in distantly and distance. Enter forms the noun entrance, and inhabit leads to inhabitant. Photograph branches into photography, photographer, and photographic.
Further formations include recognise into (un)recognisable and recognition. The word time forms the compound timetable. Tour leads to tourism and tourist. World becomes the adjective and adverb worldwide. From the root direct, one can form indirect, direction, director, and (in)directly. The unit also acknowledges miscellaneous vocabulary such as abrupt and underg (underground), with the student directed to Page for further categorical definitions.