Summer-time to travel

Today’s session of the Gabfest Club (at Window on America center Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine) was dedicated to the topic “Summer-time to travel”. We have read a CNN article which explained why only 30% of Americans travel internationally. The article allowed to introduce such phenomena as “Culture shock”, “gap year” and some others. The costs and logistics of international travel were also discussed.
The video that illustrated the topic told about the typical mistakes the American tourists make in other countries. The Club members who met American tourists in Ukraine shared their stories. The second part of the session was dedicated to translation of quotes about travel and answering numerous questions about travel and transportation, the good and bad things about travel.
The session was educational and informative as it provided an insight into American culture of travelling within the USA. The new arrivals that illustrate tourist attractions of the USA were introduced to the group.
Number of participants – 12.

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English Speaking club - TRAVEL and TRANSPORT in your life

 Today’s session topic of the ESC was inspired by the beginning of summer - TRAVEL and TRANSPORT in your life.

At first we have tried to classify travel by various criteria – each club member  selected a criteria and  categorized types of travel accordingly – by comfort level, by budget, by quantity of people, by season, by trip duration, by destination etc.

A couple of new travel terms were introduced – package tour, budget travel, luxury travel, back packers etc.

It turned out that for some club members travel is a life style. A discussion about the best place visited was rather interesting. The impressions ranged from best fishing places and beach villages in Ukraine to the most romantic capitals of the world (Paris, Singapore, etc.).

At the second half of the session we watched the video presentations and commercials of the best American transportation companies – Greyhound, Amtrack, Delta airlines, Carnival and Caribbean cruise lines. The club members were thoroughly impressed by the cruise lines’ presentations.

Number of the visitors – 16.

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