Travel and Tourism

Getting there and staying there

Travel and tourism splits neatly in two, and sorting the vocabulary that way makes it much easier to hold. - **The journey**: how you travel, where you leave from, what you take with you - **The stay**: where you sleep, what you do when you are there Vocabulary alone will not carry a speaking answer, though. Almost every question on this topic asks you either to **arrange something** or to **say what you prefer**, so the second half of this module is the two structures that do exactly those two jobs. ⚠️ **All the Italian here is flagged for native-speaker review**, as on every language module in this project. It is standard GCSE travel vocabulary rather than anything unusual, and it is deliberately written without accents so it is easy to type.

Words for the journey

Nouns are given bare, without the article in front, so you can see the word itself.

Match each travel word to its meaning

Which word do you need?

You want to say you are buying a **ticket**. Which Italian word do you need?

• biglietto
• stazione
• valigia
• albergo

The journey and the stay

Sort every new word into one of these two columns as you learn it.

Verbs of travel

Select the TWO Italian words that name an action rather than a thing.

• partire
• prenotare
• albergo
• spiaggia

Two ways to say what you want

Almost every travel question asks you either to arrange something or to give an opinion. Two structures cover both, and each one takes an infinitive straight after it. **To arrange something: vorrei plus an infinitive.** - **Vorrei prenotare una camera** - I would like to book a room - **Vorrei partire domani** - I would like to leave tomorrow The specification is specific here: the conditional at Foundation is limited to **vorrei** and **mi piacerebbe**, so these two are worth knowing exactly rather than guessing at others. **To give an opinion: mi piace plus an infinitive.** - **Mi piace viaggiare in treno** - I like travelling by train - **Non mi piace viaggiare in aereo** - I do not like travelling by plane **Both structures work with any infinitive you know**, which is why they are worth more to you than another ten nouns.

Booking and preferring

To say you would like to do something, use _____ followed by an infinitive. So "I would like to book" is _____ _____. To say you like doing something, use _____ followed by an infinitive, so "I like travelling" is _____ _____. To make that negative, put _____ in front of it. The word for a hotel is _____.

Build a booking

You are at a hotel desk and want to book a room. Choose the Italian for each part.

Six words in the grid

Six travel words are hidden here. Find each one from its English meaning. Words may run in any direction, including backwards.

Talking about a holiday

**General conversation question: "Tell me about a holiday you have been on."** A weak answer names a place and stops. A strong one does three things, and all three are possible with this topic's words alone. **1. Say how you travelled.** One transport word plus a verb: **Mi piace viaggiare in treno** turns a fact into a preference, and preferences are what the mark scheme asks for. **2. Say where you stayed.** **albergo** and **camera** cost nothing to learn and move the answer from the journey to the stay, which shows range across the topic. **3. Add one opinion with a reason.** Even a short reason lifts an answer, and **non mi piace** gives you the negative side without any new grammar. **The pattern to practise: how you travelled, where you stayed, what you thought.** Three sentences, all built from this module, and it is a complete answer.

Match each verb to what it means

Which frame do you need?

You want to tell the examiner that you **like** travelling by train. Which structure do you need?

• mi piace followed by an infinitive
• vorrei followed by an infinitive
• non on its own
• prenotare on its own

At the hotel desk

The speaking role-play puts you at a hotel in Italy. Work through it.

• You need to ask for a room. Which structure gets you there fastest?
• You do not know the Italian word for something on the card. What do you do?
• You have made your request and the examiner waits. What adds most for the least effort?

Your turn: describe a trip

Write a short paragraph in Italian about a journey and a stay, using the vocabulary and the two structures from this module.

• Say how you travelled, using one transport word from this topic
• Say where you stayed, using at least one word from the "being there" column
• Use mi piace or non mi piace with an infinitive at least once, to give an opinion
• Use vorrei with an infinitive at least once, to say something you would like to do