Intro
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2. Read and Prepare - Read the introduction and prepare to hear the audio.
When you travel, whether it’s to a new country or just the forest outside your city, you see and experience all sorts of exciting new things. It’s fun to have someone there to say, “Wow, look at that!” or to remember your trip with later.
But traveling alone has it’s advantages too. With no one else to please, you can do and see exactly what you want to. You can make new friends more easily since you’ll talk to strangers to avoid loneliness.
Sara recently took a solo trip. Listen to her discuss it with Vanessa in this travel English lesson.
Dialog
1. Listen and Read - Listen to the audio and read the dialog at the same time.
2. Study - Read the dialog again to see how the vocab words are used.
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Vanessa: A friend of mine just went camping this weekend, but she went all alone. It seems really weird to me. Have you ever taken a vacation by yourself?
Sara: I have. I’ve never camped alone, but I’ve driven cross-country by myself a few times and I really liked it.
Vanessa: Really? I think I might be a little nervous to be traveling alone, especially if I was going to a different country or something.
Sara: Right. I think what was cool when I was driving cross-country, was I would stay with people that I knew in different places every night. So even though I was traveling alone, I wasn’t entirely by myself in a way.
Vanessa: I see, so you had people who knew where you were and if something went terribly wrong, someone would notice.
Sara: I just think it’s really cool to totally be in charge of your agenda and your itinerary and not have to worry about what anyone else wants to do.
Vanessa: You can set your own pace, and sightsee, and…
Sara: Listen to your own music, you know?
Vanessa: That is very important! Maybe traveling alone isn’t such a bad idea. Maybe I’ll start small and take a day trip by myself!
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Discussion
Vanessa was surprised to learn that when her friend went camping over the weekend, she went alone. She thinks this is weird, and asks Sara if she has ever gone on vacation by herself. Sara has never been camping on her own, but really likes driving cross-country alone. She has done it several times.
Vanessa thinks traveling alone, especially to another country, would make her nervous. Sara explains that she met with friends in different cities each night of her trip, so she wasn’t always alone. There were people who knew where she was in case something went wrong.
When you travel alone, you can be totally in charge of your itinerary. Sara points out you can listen to your choice of music, too! Vanessa agrees that that is very important. She says maybe traveling alone isn’t a bad idea, and maybe she will start off with a day trip alone.
Do you enjoy traveling alone? Is it acceptable to do where you live?
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