Travel English — English for Tourists

Welcome to our Travel English section — more than just a phrase book. It’s a collection of 100 free interactive exercises designed to help you practice the common English phrases and vocabulary used by travelers in a wide variety of real-life situations.

Whether you’re at the airport, checking into a hotel, ordering at a restaurant, or asking for directions, these exercises will prepare you to communicate confidently in English before you take your trip.

Did you know? Tipping habits change a lot depending on where you are. A 15–20% tip is expected at restaurants in the US, while in Japan offering a tip can actually be seen as rude. In many European countries, a small service charge is often already included in the bill — so it never hurts to ask! Practice this kind of real-world vocabulary in our new Tipping & service culture exercise below.

Airports & airplanes

Hotels & accommodations

Restaurants, bars & eating out

Shopping & buying things

Transportation (trains, cars & more)

Sightseeing

Meeting & talking to people

Health & safety

Money, tipping & handling problems

Errands & services

Grammar that comes up again and again while traveling A lot of these situations rely on a handful of grammar points — worth a quick refresher before your trip:

Question tags 2 — for small talk like “Lovely weather, isn’t it?”
Modals of speculation/deduction 1 — for guessing things like “it might rain” or “the train must be delayed”
Will or going to? 1 — for talking about your travel plans
Conditional tenses (mixed) 2 — for “if my flight is delayed…” situations
Causative form (mixed) 1 — for services like “get your bags checked” or “have your watch repaired”
Reported speech (mixed tenses) 2 — for retelling what staff told you (“she said the train would be late”)