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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