Travel and Tourism

Two words for one English verb

This topic covers the journey from the ticket office to the hotel, and most of it is vocabulary you can simply learn. One thing is not. English does the work of having something with a single verb, and Hebrew does not have that verb at all. To say you have a ticket you use one word, and to say you do not have one you use a different word rather than adding a not to the first. So יש לי כרטיס means I have a ticket, and the negative is built from a different word entirely. Getting that pair right is worth more in this topic than any amount of extra vocabulary.

Words for the journey

Six words from the list this specification uses for travel.

Match the travel word

Which one is the plane

Which of these Hebrew words means a plane?

• מטוס
• טיסה
• שדה תעופה
• טיול

Having, and not having

Hebrew has no verb meaning to have. Instead it uses one word for there is and a different word for there is not, and the negative is not built from the positive.

Which two are correct

Select the TWO expressions that are correctly formed.

• יש לי כרטיס
• אין לי כרטיס
• לי יש כרטיס
• כרטיס לי אין

Words made of two words

Look at the travel vocabulary and you will notice how many of these words are two words joined: the machine of tickets, the field of aviation, the map of roads. That is the construct chain you met in the social issues module, and this topic is unusually full of it, because the things you meet while travelling are mostly named by what they are for. You do not need to build these yourself. Learn each compound as one item, exactly as you would learn a single word, and recognise the pattern when you meet a new one so that a two-word phrase does not look like two separate items you have failed to learn.

Travel in a paragraph

The Hebrew for a ticket is _____ and the word for a flight is _____. The place you fly from is _____. If something goes wrong you may meet a _____. And to say you have something, you use the word _____, followed by a word meaning to me and then the thing itself.

Build the sentence

Put these three pieces in order to say I have a ticket. The pattern is the one shown earlier as יש לי כרטיס.

• יש
• לי
• כרטיס

Places and things

Reading a travel notice

A reading question gives you a short notice and asks in English what it says. Suppose it contains the word עיכוב alongside טיסה. Model answer: the notice concerns a flight and reports a delay, so it is telling passengers that their departure will be later than planned. Notice what earned the mark. Not a translation of every word, but recognising two words you know and working out what a notice containing both is for. In a reading paper you will always meet words you have not learned, and the skill being tested is using the ones you do know to work out the purpose of the text. It is also why learning compounds as whole units matters: a two-word phrase you recognise instantly is worth far more under time pressure than two separate words you have to assemble.

Find the one that does not fit

Three of these words are things or places you meet while travelling. Select the ONE that is a journey rather than a thing.

• מלון
• טיול
• כבודה
• מכונת כרטיסים

At the airport

You are preparing a short spoken answer about a journey. Work through the choices.

• You want to say that you have a ticket. Which word comes first?
• You now want to say that you do NOT have a ticket. What changes?
• You want to name the place you are flying from. Which word do you need?
• You meet a two-word phrase you have never seen. What is the useful assumption?

Explain your choices

Answer in ENGLISH. You are preparing to talk about a journey in Hebrew. Explain what you would say and why, naming the Hebrew words you would use.

• Name two Hebrew words for things you would meet on a journey, and give their meanings
• Explain how you would say that you have a ticket, and which word does that work
• Explain how the negative differs, and why it is not made by adding a not
• Name one word that is a compound of two words, and say what the two parts mean
• Explain why learning compounds as whole units helps in a reading paper