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You will learn

you will use a variety of sources
you will analyse and interpret various cultural texts
you will search for information in the text and interpret it
you will develop the ability to read the meaning of synonymous words

Where would you like to go? Choose three places of your dreams. Tell others why would you like to visit these places.1

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TravellingtravellingTravelling has always accompanied human beings since the beginning of their existence. In the times of Ferdinand Magellan or Christopher Columbus, it was associated with great risks and required great courage. However, thanks to the first travellers new lands started to be discovered, maps drawn, more and more efficient means of transport constructed. To this day, travelling for various purposes – professional, scientific, tourist – is an important area of human life. Many books and travel programs have been created. Travel video blogs are really popular.

Exercise 1

Proverbs are said to be the wisdom of nations. It is true, but it is also true that proverbs often contain contradictory wisdom. This applies, for example, to these Polish sayings:

„Wszędzie dobrze, ale w domu najlepiej”.
„Wszędzie dobrze, gdzie nas nie ma”.

Is it possible that both sentences contain the truth? Indicate in what circumstances – in your opinion – both proverbs can be true?

Departure from home is not always a journey – sometimes we only go short and very close. When, on the other hand, we leave the permanent residence for a longer time and set off somewhere further, then we are already on a journey. There are professions that even require leaving the house for many days and moving away from it many kilometers. Very often, however, we also travel from our own will and without obligation.

Exercise 2

Create a list of professions which require travelling. Write your answers here or in a notebook.

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Exercise 3

Create a list of reasons for travelling, apart from professional duties. Write your answers here or in a notebook.

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Exercise 4

There are many words that mean travelling depending on the purpose and type of travel: travel, excursion, tramp, commute, trip, journey, voyage. Check if you know their meaning. Solve the crossword. The solution is the name of a profession related to travelling.

A short journey that you make for pleasure.
The activity of travelling.
An occasion when you go somewhere and come back again.
A long journey, especially on a ship.
An occasion when you travel from one place to another, especially over a long distance.
A journey in which you visit several places for pleasure.
To travel regularly to and from work.
When you walk slowly for a long distance.

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In the twentieth century, also Ryszard Kapuściński, considered to be the most outstanding Polish reporterreporterreporter, wrote about travelling. His books (e.g. „Travels with Herodotus”), although they included elements of creation and fiction, in an unusual way could discover the secrets of exotic – for the European – places and people living there. For one of the basic conditions for discovering new worlds, Kapuscinski did not recognize the end or destination of the journey, but the act of crossing the border. He also believed that access to the mystery of every world was possible only by learning a foreign language.

Read the text of Ryszard Kapuściński in the lesson „Wszędzie dobrze, ale w domu najlepiej” – podróże bliskie i dalekie. Then follow the instructions below.

Exercise 5

Why do you think the author asks so many questions in the text quoted?

Exercise 6

The spelling of the same phrase is repeated in the text in an exploded form. Why is this procedure used?

Exercise 7

Why, in your opinion, did Ryszard Kapuscinski pay so much attention to the frontier areas?

Exercise 8

During our trips from Poland, we cross the border of our country with other countries. Is this the only border that you can cross then? Write your notes in a notebook.

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Read the next text by Ryszard Kapuściński. Answer the questions below.

Exercise 9

Select the parts of the text that say about the ways the reporter used to learn foreign languages.

Exercise 10

In pairs, answer the question: what methods do you apply in learning a foreign language?

Exercise 11

Explain why you agree or disagree with the following statement: I understood that every world has its own secret and that access to it is only through learning the language. Without this, the world will remain impenetrable and incomprehensible to us, even if we have spent years inside it.

Exercise 12

Dlaczego warto podróżowac? Który rejon świata chciałbyś odwiedzić?