Traveling

B1 – Intermediate

There is a saying that goes, “Travel is the only thing you can buy that makes you richer”. There are just too many places to visit, too little time.

Traveling gives us a lot of experiences and memories.

Listen to this audio and read the transcript about traveling.

https://listenaminute.com/t/travelling.html

Discussion Questions:

  1. What are the reasons you travel?
  2. Why do you think some people don’t enjoy traveling?
  3. Talk about your most memorable trip.
  4. What are the advantages and disadvantages of planning your trips in advance?
  5. Have you ever gone to a trip without any plans at all? Why or why not?
  6. Who is the most interesting person you’ve met while traveling? What makes this person interesting?
  7. Do you visit places that are off the beaten track? Why or why not?
  8. How do you feel about being somewhere with thousands of other tourists?
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2 replies on “Traveling”

1- There are a lot of reasons to travel. I like met differents places and cultures, taste some traditional cooking and visit historical emplacements.
I think traveling is a great way to relax your mind from daily worries.

2- I think this people usually travel in higth ocupation seasons. In this seasons all places are very crowded. You cannot enjoy the location you’re visiting.

3- The best trip was the first trip with my girlfriend. We went to Provence in France and we really enjoyed visiting the cities, the lakes, and watching the flowery lavender countrysides. It was a very relaxing trip.

4-The advantage is you know what places you wanna visit in your destiny, and you are sure about the better way to spend your time to do all the things you want to do.

Maybe the disadvantage is you could lose your oportunity to discover by yourself new places out of the turistic recomendations.

5- I don’t like to have all my trip arranged, so I want to improvise, but at least I like to choose my hotel in advance.

6- It’s difficult to chose who is the most interesting person I met travelling. I met friendly people who all had their own history.

7- I have not had the opportunity to do it, but I would love to visit places off the beaten track in the future

8- I hate it.

Welcome to the Phoneenglish blog! Hope this exercise helps you in practicing your writing skills.

Take a look at how these sentences can be written a bit better:

It’s difficult to chose who is the most interesting person I met travelling. I met friendly people who all had their own history.

It’s difficult to choose who the most interesting person I’ve met while travelling is. I’ve met quite a lot of friendly people who all have their own unique and interesting stories to tell.

Continue with this writing exercise to see your skills develop more and more.

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