Conversation
After a quick greeting, use the following questions as a guideline to form an interesting conversation with your tutor. Feel free to diverge from these suggestions if anything interesting comes up.
- Some people like to travel with a companion. Other people prefer to travel alone. Which do you prefer? Use specific reasons and examples to support your choice.
- If you could travel anywhere in the world, where would it be?
- When you travel, do you enjoy having a plan or deciding along the way?
- What frustrates you about traveling?
Vocabulary
Skip this section if you have 15 minute plan. Read the word/expression and definition out loud, and your tutor will go over anything you do not understand. Practice creating a sentence or two to make sure you know how to use the word/expression properly.
Vocabulary/ Expressions
| Expression | Definition |
| map | (n) a picture or chart that shows the rivers, mountains, streets in a particular area Will you bring a map along when you hike? |
| itinerary | (n) the places you go to or plan to go on a journey We forgot our itinerary on the kitchen counter, but we decided to make an adventure of it. |
| spontaneous | (adj) done or said in a natural and often sudden way without a lot of thought or planning Our trip to Spain with a spontaneous decision once we bought the tickets. |
| alone | (adj) without anyone or anything else: not involving or including anyone or anything: separate from other people or things Traveling alone makes me learn new things I never would have imagined. |
| traverse | (v) to move across an area I wanted to traverse the trail with just me and my thoughts. |
| collaborate | (v) to work with another person or group in order to achieve or do something In order to find our next stop, we need to collaborate our efforts. |
| read over | (expression) peruse, look through Did you read over the agenda before we left? |
| plan out | (expression) to set a schedule in detail Whenever we travel, I plan out all the details. |
| talk through | (expression) discuss Before we start packing, there are some things to talk through. |
| last straw | (expression) final problem in a series of problems and issues If they don’t agree with this one final decision, that’s the last straw. |
Something Extra
Read the following quote out loud.
Traveling is not something you’re good at. It’s something you do. Like breathing.”
― Gayle Foreman
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