A. Allurement of travelling

TRAVELLING

MODULE 4

Ø Allurement of travelling. Adventure

Ø Travel Broadens the Mind

Ø Means of Travelling.

Travelling by air, BY TRAIN, by sea

Ø Travel and Accommodation

Ø The future of Ukrainian Tourism. Green Tourism

ALLUREMENT OF TRAVELLING. ADVENTURE.

—1.Read the proverbs above. Work in pairs and discuss with your partner the ideas which these proverbs bear. Present your view points to the class.

So many countries, so many customs

A man knows his companion in a long journey and a little inn.

Rest is rust.

Fortune favours the brave.

2. When speaking about “Travelling” we often use such words as: alluring, exciting, interesting etc. to characterize the journey. Why do you think it happens? What do people want to say about “Travelling”? Speak with your partners and present your view points.

& 3.Read the texts, translate them into Ukrainian. Be ready to discuss them.

A. Allurement of travelling

Every child, I suppose, spends a large proportion of its time in a day dream about things that can capture a child’s imagination. Unfortunately this longing is seldom expressed and is generally submerged by the weight of conventional upbringing and education, but something sufficient remains to have a decisive effect upon our way of life. My earliest recollections are of daydreams about a strange country. My adventures in those places were not very startling, but everything had a quality of endlessness: the rivers went on for ever, the mountains were infinitely high, and the country was always changing. My great delight at the seaside was to put a bottle or a piece of pumice into the sea and watch it float away, or on a windy day to throw a rag into the air to be blown away. I used to imagine those objects travelling on for ever, and I went with them. I am glad that nobody pointed out that my bottles and pumice would be washed up a few hundred yards farther along the beach, or that my rags would be swept into a dustbin.

I was lucky, as I had plenty to stimulate my imagination, for I was never in one place for long, and spent much of my time travelling about in Ceylon and Southern India with frequent voyages between Europe and the East. To an adult such journeys can be measured in an exact number of geographical miles, or in days and hours, become rather monotonous. I found them immensely exciting, and often finished them in a state of exhaustion. Having no precise conception of time and distance, they confirmed my notion of the boundless world. The train winding towards the sandy tip of India at Dhanushkodi, and chugging noisily through the jungle-clad up-country of Ceylon and the Nilgiris; an early morning of strange scents, travelling swiftly by cocoanut palms and paddy-fields; stromboli belching fire and smoke; a whale spouting far in the wake of the ship – these were some of the impressions that kept alive the blissful day-dreams during the later dreary years of preparatory school routine, and successfully removed all chances of mastering Latin syntax.

(From “Upon that Mountain” by Eric Shipton)

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