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Passport control: the arrival card and a family visit

Real life · At passport control

Passport control: the arrival card and a family visit

Your goal: Complete the missing address on your arrival card and explain your visit.

  • A2
  • 8 turns · about 5 min

You talk to: Border officer

Phrases you will need

  • I'm staying with my cousin.
  • Could you lend me a pen?
  • I came here two years ago.
  • I fly back on the twentieth.

A spoken scene: sound plays only when you press a speaker.

  1. Before you start, read the scene's goal and the useful phrases.
  2. Read the other person's speech bubble.
  3. Choose the most natural reply, or complete the missing word in it.
  4. After a wrong reply you see why at once; at the end you can read the whole conversation again.
How to play? Scoring and details
In this set
The officer checks your arrival card. Answer the questions and fix the missing address.
This game reads words aloud
This scene can be read aloud: Emma (British accent) reads the other person, Heart (American accent) reads the natural reply. Sound plays only when you press a speaker button, at a pace that suits your level.

The other person's line comes as sound only at first. Press the speaker, listen and reply; show the words if you need them.

Scoring
Your answers are checked; at the end you see your score, your mistakes and the right answers.
With a keyboard
Keys 1, 2 and 3 choose a reply; Enter continues the conversation.