Ex. 2a) Complete the following text with the words from the word snake.
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C).What are the reasons for travelling in the following letters? Have you mentioned them? Guess the meaning of the words in italics.
Discuss other reasons to travel. Compare with other groups.
►“I grew up pretty sheltered so wanted to see more of the world after I graduated college. After my first backpacking adventure I was hooked! Now I try to go on at least one big trip every year.” – Michael
►“To re-evaluate direction in life, make a career break, learn about the world and become better global citizens, bond as a family & “roadschool” the kids, and experience a stripped-down nomadic life to greater appreciate our regular non-travelling lives.” – Sara Lavender Smith
►“I have an insatiable appetite for new experiences – aka[1], I'm easily bored and have a short attention span. It is not enough for me to see pictures of monuments, natural wonders and new landscapes. I want to touch, breathe, smell, feel everything there is to experience in the world. I love how it opens my mind and how nothing is ever quite as it looked in the picture. I love new people too, and their stories.” – Penny.
_1d) In groups of three answer the questions:
When did you last take a journey?
Where did you go?
What was the reason for your trip?
entertainmentcivilizationnamedexcitementcustomsworldpromises
Faraway places with strange-sounding names lure the traveller with a) __________ of enchantment, b) __________, diverse forms of c) _________, and tantalizing new kinds of food. The urgeto travel is as old as d) _________. The great historian Herodotus roamed the ancient e) _________, examining the f) ________ of many lands before writing his famous ‘History'. Hundreds of years later a young man from Venice g) ________ Marco Polo set out with his father for China, and his writings opened the Far East to Europeans of his time. About the same time Ibn Battutah, an Islamic scholar, travelled about 75,000 miles (121,000 kilometers) and recorded his wanderings in the widely read ‘Rihlah' (Travels).