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Hard holiday word search

Boarding pass, jet lag and the phrasebook: travel words for older children and adults with time to kill at the gate. Twenty-eight of them in a big grid, backwards and diagonal ones included.

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  • Adventure
  • Apartment
  • Boarding pass
  • Check-in
  • Cruise ship
  • Currency
  • Customs
  • Departure lounge
  • Excursion
  • Ferry port
  • Freeway
  • GPS
  • Holiday home
  • Itinerary
  • Jet lag
  • Landmark
  • Luggage
  • Museum
  • Phrasebook
  • Road trip
  • Runway
  • Servo
  • Sightseeing
  • Snorkel
  • Souvenir shop
  • Sun lounger
  • Travel pillow
  • Villa

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Holidays, extra hard

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Find these words

  • Adventure
  • Apartment
  • Boarding pass
  • Check-in
  • Cruise ship
  • Currency
  • Customs
  • Departure lounge
  • Excursion
  • Ferry port
  • Freeway
  • GPS
  • Holiday home
  • Itinerary
  • Jet lag
  • Landmark
  • Luggage
  • Museum
  • Phrasebook
  • Road trip
  • Runway
  • Servo
  • Sightseeing
  • Snorkel
  • Souvenir shop
  • Sun lounger
  • Travel pillow
  • Villa

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Holidays, extra hard

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About this word search

Servo is short for service station and is one of those Australian words visitors often have to ask about. On a long road trip, a stop at a servo on the Freeway is where you fill up, stretch your legs and maybe buy a pie. The list moves between that kind of holiday and the overseas kind, with Customs, Currency and Jet lag.

Expect reversed and slanted lines across the whole sheet. GPS is the trap: three letters and no vowel, easy to read straight past. Departure lounge is the longest entry and makes a solid first target, followed by Souvenir shop and Travel pillow.

For students learning English as a new language, the list doubles as a vocabulary sheet for airports and travel, and each word can be acted out for the others to guess.

Ways to use this word search

  • In the classroom

    Print it as a task for early finishers, or to open a lesson on this topic. With the QR code on the sheet, pupils check their own answers.

  • At home and on the go

    Pack a few printed sheets for the car, the train or the holidays. A pen is all you need, no screen required.

  • Play together

    Print the sheet twice and race each other. Whoever finds all the words first wins. Or play it online and see who is fastest.

Try it in Spanish too

The same theme also exists in Spanish, French, German and Italian, each with its own word list in that language. Handy if you are learning a language: you already know the topic, now just the words.

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