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Unit 26 :
Applying for Visa
Intermediate
Summary
To know words and questions associated in applying visa.
- Brain Storm : Share your ideas with your teacher. Try to make sentences.
Are you afraid of going abroad alone?
Vocabulary
Repeat these words/ phrases after your teacher.
- consulate (n)
- letter of employment (n)
- war veterans (n)
- fluent (adj)
- property deed (n)
- approved (v)
- grant (v)
- purpose (n)
Dialogue 1
Read the dialogue aloud with your teacher.
Aron
Gail
Good morning. Thank you for coming into the consulate today. Let’s begin. What’s the purpose of your visit to the USA?
I’m going there to visit the West and East Coasts.
Is this your first time traveling to the United States?
Yes, it is.
Do you have any friends or family residing in the US?
No, I don’t.
Will you be traveling alone or with someone?
My friends from China will meet up with me in LA.
Ok. Where are you planning to visit while in the States?
I’m planning to travel for 10 days in mid August, spending 5 days in LA and San Francisco, 5 in Boston and New York.
Do you have your flight and hotel booking confirmations?
Yes. I brought them with me. Here you are.
Thank you. What’s your occupation?
I’m a sales manager in an export and import company. Here’s my letter of employment.
Ok. Can you also give me the rest of your supporting documents like bank statements, tax returns, and a property deed?
Certainly. Here you are.
Ok. I’ve approved your visa. You can proceed to the counter over there to select your pick up method.
Thank you so much! Have a great day!
Let’s practice
Word definition. Match column A with column B to get the meaning of the word.
COLUMN A
- consulate
- export
- proceed
- counter
- import
- reside
COLUMN B
a. To bring merchandise from a foreign or external source
b. To dwell permanently
c. A level surface over which transactions are conducted
d. A government by consuls
e. To continue after an interruption
f. To carry or send something to some other place
Dialogue 2
Role-play Dialogue 2 with your teacher.
Visa clearance officer
Visa applicant
So what’s the purpose of your visit to Britain?
My wife, granddaughter and I have been invited to a golden wedding of our English friends. Please find attached their invitations.
Where and when did you first meet your English friends?
That was in 1990 when they were invited to Moscow as British war veterans to take part in celebrations of the 45th anniversary of VE-Day. I am a war veteran myself and since I speak fluent English I was asked to take care of them.
Just what do mean by “taking care of them”?
Oh, I met them at the airport and took them to their hotel. The following day I called for them and brought them to our place. I introduced them to our family.
After dinner, I took a taxi and showed them some sights of Moscow. Sightseeing took a few more days. The following year they invited my wife and me to come and stay with them in Christchurch.
Then their youngest son came over and stayed with us for a while and so on.
All right, I’ll grant visas to you and your wife, but not to you granddaughter.
May I ask why?
Because she has nothing to do with a golden wedding. She is eleven and belongs to a different generation altogether. What would she do at a golden wedding?
Our friends like her and want her to meet their grandchildren, so that when we, veterans, are gone, the friendship between our families may continue.
Nevertheless I deny her a visa.
Discussion：
Share your idea with your teacher. Try to make sentences.
- Describe the most interesting person you met on one of your travels.
- Is there any difference between young tourists and adult tourists?
- What are some benefits of travel?
