Travellers' Tales

With the help of the Internet, please prepare writing your travellers' tale. Gather as much  information as possible. All names and geographical information has to be true, but the story itself can be a fantasy.  

 1) Decide who you are together with on your road trip. Take notes of your car. 

2) Choose an interesting country

3) Find 2 different places (towns) in that country. It's better if they are quite far apart because your journey needs to be longer than 2 days. 

4) With the help of Google Maps, find out how to drive from A to B. Write down: how many kilometres, how many hours the journey is, which other major towns or important areas the road goes through. 

5) Find interesting sights along the route. All names have to be accurate! Take notes. 

6) Decide where you are staying for each night. If it is a hotel / motel, then take notes about it. If you decide to sleep in the car or on a campsite, also find out where. 

7) Where do you get food, where do you eat? 

8) All the information should inspire you to make up events and actions. Take notes. What happened on that road trip? It's advisable to create a  timeline in your notebook. 

WRITING (You can use your notebook, but not your textbook or the Internet)

1. Your story has: 

* accurate information about the route, sights and places

* description of your car

* description of your accommodation

* description of your food / places you had food

2. Your story is written in narrative / past tenses. 

3. In your story you have used phrases for ordering the events (By the time, suddently, at first etc.)

4. There are some quotes in your story. 

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Correction of mistakes

1) Names: The Crown Hotel, The Old Bell Restaurant (without quote marks, all nouns in capital letters, article "the"!)

2) Geographical names: Lake Windemere, The River Severn

3) it's or its? (it's = it is / it has; its = belongs to it)

4) so = as a result, therefore, consequently, hence, resulting in .... (There has to be a comma before "so".)

5) Is "and" needed? We drove to the town and on our way we picked up a hitchhiker. => We drove to the town picking up a hitchhiker. 

6) Try to avoid using unnecessary words. We wanted to go to do some shopping. => We wanted to do some shopping. 

7) Don't misuse commas! First we started driving towards the capital, it was a 3-hour-long journey. => First we started driving towards the capital which was a 3-hour-long journey. / First we took a 3-hour-long journey towards the capital.