Lesson 4: Planning a Trip – Accommodation and Transport
Bookings, comparing offers, handling changes and complaints while travelling – using polite expressions and future/conditional tenses.
About this lesson
In this lesson we practise the key vocabulary and structures needed to organise a trip: booking accommodation and tickets, making polite requests and enquiries, and responding to delays and problems. You will use polite formulas, the future tense (futur simple/proche) and conditional forms to plan ahead and compare options (refundable/non-refundable fares). By the end, you will handle typical situations at a hotel reception or ticket counter with confidence.
40 minutes
What you'll learn
- Make and manage accommodation and transport bookings using polite formulas.
- Ask clarifying questions about price, included services and cancellation conditions.
- Describe a problem (delay, noise, discrepancy) and file a complaint.
- Talk about plans and consequences using the futur simple/proche and conditional structures (si + présent → futur).
- Compare offers and express preferences and conditions (remboursable/non remboursable, compris/non compris).
Lesson vocabulary
- — резервирам Je voudrais réserver une chambre pour deux nuits.
- — отменям Nous avons dû annuler notre réservation à cause d'un imprévu.
- — настаняване L'hébergement inclut le petit déjeuner.
- — хостел (младежка туристическа база) Nous logeons dans une auberge de jeunesse près de la gare.
- — къща за гости/ваканционна къща Ce gîte à la campagne est très confortable.
- — възстановим / невъзстановим (за тарифа) Ce tarif est non remboursable après 24 heures.
- — депозит, гаранция Une caution de 200€ est demandée à l'arrivée.
- — двупосочен билет Je prends un aller-retour Paris–Bordeaux.
- — прекачване (връзка) Notre correspondance à Lyon est de 15 minutes.
- — закъснение Le train a eu un retard de trente minutes.
- — оплаквам се Je me suis plaint du bruit dans la chambre.
- — разписание Vérifiez les horaires avant de partir.