Nightmare Journeys

A nightmare journey I remember was three years ago (1) _____ I was going to the airport with my friend. We were going to Mallorca on holiday and we had to be at Dresden airport two hours before the flight.

We leaved home with plenty of time, (2) _____ when we got to the motorway there was a huge traffic jam! The traffic wasn’t moving at all. We didn’t knew what to do. It was too late to go another way, (3) _____ we just sat in the car getting more and more stressed. (4) _____ ten minutes the traffic started moving slowly.

We decided to leave the motorway and try to found another way to the airport, (5) _____ I wasn’t sure of the way and we got completely lost. We was sure we were going to miss the flight. We finally arrived at the airport just thirty minutes before the plane was going to leave.

The woman at the check-in-desk said we couldn’t to check in our luggage (6) _____ it was too late (7) _____ we had to run with all our cases to the departure gate. (8) _____ my friend felt over and hurt her leg, we managed to get to the gate in time and (9) _____ we caught our flight.

Note: Majorca (Catalan and Spanish “Mallorca”) is the largest island of Spain. It is located in the Mediterranean Sea.

Exercise 13. Look at the list in the Useful language box below and say what possible travel problems you may have.