State Budgetary Educational Institution
Centre of Education №1420 of the City of Moscow
Project
on the theme:
“Travelling and Students of Our School”
Performed by the students of Class 9A:
Andrey Moskalenko,
Jury Nadrov,
Artur Gandilyan,
Anar Akperov.
Teacher: Olga Borisovna Ermolaeva
2012-2013
Plan.
Introduction.
Chapter 1. What is
travelling? Means of Travelling.
Chapter 2. Famous Places to
Visit.
Chapter 3. Books About
Travelling.
Chapter 4. Films About
Travelling.
Chapter 5. Our Research
“Travelling and Pupils of Our School”.
Conclusion.
Introduction.
What is travel? Why do people
travel?
Travelling is a way to
discover and experience the world. People travel all the time for different
reasons and purposes, and they also travel differents ways.
A famous English writer of
the 19th century Robert Louis Stevenson wrote: “For my part, I
travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great
affair is to move”.
“I travel a lot; I hate
having my life disrupted by routine” said Caskie Stinnett, the American writer.
“Don't tell me how educated
you are, tell me how much you have traveled” are the words of Mohammed.
All these quotations prove
that people have never managed to live fully and happily without traveling and
thus experiencing the world.
All this and much more will
be discussed in our project.
The purposes and objectives
of our project are the following:
·
Talk
about travelling and many other things related to this concept
·
Conduct a questionnaire to the
students of our school about travelling
·
Take result of our project.
Chapter 1. What is
travelling? Means of Travelling.
Millions of
people all over the world spend their holidays and weekends on travelling. They
travel to see other continents, countries, modern cities; they travel to enjoy
beautiful places. The term
"travel" originates from the Old French word travail. The term also covers all the
activities performed during a travel (movement). A person who travels is
spelled "traveler" in the United States, and "traveller" in the United Kingdom.
Reasons for travelling
include recreation, tourism or vacationing, research travel for the gathering of information, for holiday to visit people, volunteer travel for charity, migration to begin life somewhere else, religious pilgrimages and mission trips, business travel, trade, commuting, and other reasons, such as to obtain health care or fleeing
war or for the enjoyment of
traveling. Travelling is always interesting: to
discover new things, meet different people, see ancient towns and buildings. In
new towns tourists visit different galleries, museums, theatres and shops.
People take pictures of their travel, so that they remember about this holiday.
A statue dedicated to the traveller in Oviedo, Spain.
People travel differently: by
car, by plane, by ship, by train, by bike and other ways. Usually, they travel
by plane or by train. The reason is because it is very fast. All means of
travel have their advantages and disadvantages. People choose the type of
transport, which suits them best. It all depends on their plans and directions.
However cheap or expensive, comfortable or long-term means of traveling can be,
the main is the question of safety.
These are three main
statistics which may be used to compare the safety of various forms of travel
(based on a DETR survey in October 2000):
|
Deaths per billion
hours
|
Bus: 11.1
|
Rail: 30
|
Air: 30.8
|
Water: 50
|
Van: 60
|
Car: 130
|
Foot: 220
|
Bicycle: 550
|
Motorcycle: 4840
|
|
Deaths per
billion kilometers
|
Air: 0.05
|
Bus: 0.4
|
Rail: 0.6
|
Van: 1.2
|
Water: 2.6
|
Car: 3.1
|
Bicycle: 44.6
|
Foot: 54.2
|
Motorcycle: 108.9
|
|
So, one should think twice
before planning a holiday, especially to a distant place!
Chapter 2. Famous Places
to Visit.
Considering a great desire of
people of different ages to travel and discover new places and also a variety
of places in the world, it’s no wonder that more and more countries and cities,
deserts and mountains, seas and rivers are revealed by tourists.
The most famous are still
those that are closer to us, that is Europe.
France has always attracted travelers for its romantic
atmosphere. And it’s not only the capital. You can discover famous
Mont-Saint-Michel, an island off the coast of Normandy topped by a spectacular
12th century abbey, visit the village of Beuvron in Normandy. A unique day tour
to famous places in Normandy can cost 165 euros.
Paris
Mount Saint-Michel
Famous places to visit in Italy
include the several sea beaches of this country, historical cities of Italy
which played major role in the social and political lives of the Italian
nation. They also include various archaeological sites located in many parts of
the country. In the Italian capital Rome one can see the remnants of the famous
Coliseum.
Coliseum in Italy
Another popular place is Berlin
in Germany, which is essentially the modern day New York. With several
important and interesting tourist spots to visit, the city is one that is known
for its glamour. Some of the places where you can pay a visit when you visit
the famous places in Germany include galleries, snack shacks, gourmet temples,
museums, Reichstag, Checkpoint Charlie, and Brandenburg Gate etc.
Berlin
There is no other place in
the world that holds more mystery than the country of Egypt.
The smell of the mysticism of the ancient Egyptians still lingers over the
place. This ancient atmosphere seems to fill its each and every nook and cranny
with secrets yet untold. Perhaps there is nothing more mysterious, and much
more worthy of seeing in Egypt than the esteemed Great Pyramids of Giza. They
are the pyramids of Khufu, Kafhre, and Menkaura. These perfectly shaped
structures leaves everyone in awe and in wonder about how precisely they were
made, considering that the ancient Egyptians had no advanced technology to work
with.
Pyramids
in Egypt
And one cannot forget the
main place to visit, especially if you study English. It’s London with
its well-known sights starting with Big Ben or London Eye and never ending.
It’s been also said for years that British cuisine doesn’t exactly compete with
other cuisines you can find in Europe because…it’s terrible. But all jokes
aside, London is an incredible city with plenty of excellent food choices. From
eating in a pub to choosing a trendy restaurant, London doesn’t lack places to
place hunger at bay. London is a multi-cultural city and food follows the
trend. You can find pretty ethnic cuisine you can reckon about: Fish&Chips,
English breakfast, Ploughman’s Lunch Pie and Mash Bangers.
London
The approaching holiday
season always makes us think about how this year the holiday will be held. In
connection with this, we build great plans, dream where to go and where to rest,
in advance, with trembling imagine ourselves to have chocolate tan in the
shadows of palm trees and the sea.
The most popular destinations
to do it among those that are still considered as exotic are:
the Maldives, thought as one of the best exotic destinations. All
of the islands (or rather, atolls) look like a selection with blue lagoons,
beaches and unique vegetation. For a decent rest there is everything: peace and
calm, beautiful nature.
The Maldives
The United Arab Emirates is one of the most interesting and attractive states,
entailing a magnet of tourists, especially Europeans, and promising them a
great vacation and fun entertainment. Tours in the UAE are at the peak of
popularity all year round. The country that managed to so radically transform
in a few decades, in itself deserves respect and tourist attention, even if we
ignore the fact that today the Gulf resorts are among the most modern and
fashionable in the world. A holiday in the UAE can be considered as an
adventure, because everything there is so strange and curious ... Judge for
yourself: the state, previously completely undeveloped, after the discovery of
rich oil deposits, revealed like a rose bud, just won from the narrow strip of
desert living space, adjacent to the coast and , the most interesting - it is
thriving and developing at a frantic pace! Magic, and more!
Bali, the famed Island of the Gods, with its varied
landscape of hills and mountains, rugged coastlines and sandy beaches, lush
rice terraces and barren volcanic hillsides all providing a picturesque
backdrop to its colourful, deeply spiritual and unique culture, stakes a
serious claim to be paradise on earth.
Balinese
Dancers Nature
For those travellers who
cannot live without extreme and excitement there are now a number of active
programmes to realize the desire and feeling of hazard and passion. Probably,
the most famous and well-developed is the tour to Africa called “Safari”.
An African Safari will be one of the most amazing and life changing experiences
you will ever have. On your safari in Africa you will experience some of the
most beautiful scenery, view African wildlife and birdlife like no other, stay in
top class safari lodges and truly have the ultimate luxury African safari tour
you could ever wish for. From the wilderness of the African bush to the shores
of some of Africa’s most spectacular beaches, your Africa travel options are
endless.
Safari in Africa
Chapter 3. Books About
Travelling.
The topic of travelling is so
popular and modern that there are a lot of books the plots of which are based
on the topic of traveling.
The pupil of Class 9A Jury
Nadrov writes: “I like books on
travel and adventure. As a child, my mother read the book of Daniel Defoe
"Robinson Crusoe" and then I read it by myself”.
Defoe's famous novel (1719)
tells us of a man's shipwreck on a deserted island and his adventures. The
author based part of his narrative on the story of the Scottish castaway Alexander Selkirk, who spent four years stranded on the island
of Juan Fernandez.
Robinson_Crusoe_1719_1st_edition title page
Jury Nadrov considers: “Interesting
books on travel are also the following: E.Buyanova "Fighters
accidents", "Around the World" by V.Golovnina, "North Pole.
South Pole" by R.Piri and R.Amundsen.”
One summer I read the book
"Lenka Panteleev."
The author wrote an
autobiographical novel. As a little boy, he was left without parents and walked
almost through the whole territory of Russia, was a homeless child, stole, then
met with good people, learned, became a writer. In this book, there was so much
war, death, and a lot of humor and jokes. It is read very easily, and I was
sorry when the book ended. I became acquainted with the life and the history of
our country distant to me as seen through the eyes of a child-waif”.
There is really a great
variety of authors, classic or modern, Russian or foreign, who wrote about travelling
or at least touched upon this topic in their works.
A bright example of classical
works is the following. Two famous books by Mark Twain, the American
writer of the 19th century, “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer” and
“Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” present a colourful description of adventures
and travels of the boys. “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer” is an 1876 novel about a young boy growing up along the Mississippi River. The story is set in the Town of "St. Petersburg", inspired by Hannibal, Missouri,
where Twain lived. Adventures
of Huckleberry Finn (or, in more
recent editions, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn) is a novel, first
published in England in December 1884 and in the United States in February
1885. Commonly named among the Great American Novels, the work is among the first in major American literature to be written throughout in vernacular English, characterized by local color regionalism. It is told in the first person by Huckleberry "Huck" Finn, a friend of Tom Sawyer and narrator of two other Twain novels (Tom Sawyer Abroad and Tom Sawyer, Detective). It is a direct sequel to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. The book is noted for its colorful description of
people and places along the Mississippi River.
Front Piece of the Adventures of Tom Sawyer 1st Edition Book Cover
Asterix or The Adventures of Asterix (French: Astérix or Astérix le Gaulois)
is a series
of French comic books written by René Goscinny and
illustrated by Albert Uderzo (Uderzo also took over the job of writing the series
after the death of Goscinny in 1977). The series first appeared in French in
the magazine Pilote on 29 October 1959. As of 2012, 34 comic books in the
series have been released.
Among the latest we can speak
about a number of books that are later filmed and become quite popular, with
the main character travelling throughout the world: James Bond, code
name 007, a fictional character created in 1953 by writer Ian Fleming, who
featured him in twelve novels and two short story collections.
Ian Fleming's image of James Bond, commissioned to aid the Daily Express comic strip artists.
Six other authors have
written authorised Bond novels or novelizations since Fleming's death in 1964: Kingsley Amis, Christopher Wood, John Gardner, Raymond Benson, Sebastian Faulks, and Jeffery Deaver; a new novel, written by William Boyd, is planned for release in 2013. Additionally, Charlie Higson wrote a
series on a young James Bond, and Kate Westbrook wrote three novels based on the diaries of a recurring series character, Moneypenny.
“The DaVinci Code”, a 2003 mystery-detective novel written by Dan Brown; and many
others.
Chapter 4. Films About
Travelling.
A well-known plot as we have
assured is the one mentioned above: Robinson Crusoe.
In the 20th
century there were shot a number of different films based on this plot:
1)
a 1927 silent film titled “Robinson Crusoe”;
2)
the Soviet 3D film “Robinzon Kruzo” was produced in 1946;
3)
Luis Buñuel directed “Adventures of Robinson Crusoe” starring Dan O'Herlihy, released in 1954;
4)
Walt Disney later modernized the novel with Lt. “Robin Crusoe, U.S.N.”, featuring Dick Van Dyke. Peter O'Toole and Richard Roundtree co-starred in a 1975 film “Man Friday” which satirically portrayed Crusoe as incapable of
seeing his dark-skinned companion as anything but an inferior creature, while
Friday is more enlightened.
5)
In 1988, Aidan Quinn portrayed
Robinson Crusoe in the film “Crusoe”.
6)
“Robinson Crusoe”, a 1997 film directed by Rod Hardy and George T. Miller and stars Pierce Brosnan playing Robinson Crusoe in this adaptation of Daniel Defoe's classic novel.
Variations on the theme include the 1954 “Miss Robin Crusoe”, with a female
castaway, played by Amanda Blake, and a female Friday, and the 1964 film “Robinson Crusoe on Mars”, starring Paul Mantee, with an alien Friday portrayed by Victor Lundin. The 2000 film “Cast Away”, with Tom Hanks as a FedEx employee stranded on an Island for many
years, also borrows much from the Robinson Crusoe story.
There were also television versions, such
as:
1) In 1964 a French film production crew made a 13 part
serial of "The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe". It starred Robert Hoffman. The
black and white series was dubbed into English and German.
2) In 1981 Czechoslovakian director and animator Stanislav Látal made a version of the story under the name “Dobrodružství Robinsona Crusoe,
námořníka z Yorku” (The
Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, a sailor from York) combining traditional and
stop-motion animation.
3) In the mid-1990s there was a humorous French cartoon
called “Robinson Sucroe”. In the
cartoon, Robinson was a failed journalist for the New York Herald.
4) The 2003 French TV movie starred Pierre Richard as
Robinson.
5) In 2008, a television series titled “Crusoe” aired for 12 episodes. It was based loosely on the
novel and was not renewed for a second season.
Other films worth seeing and showing travelling
from different angles are:
Bangkok Hilton, a three-part Australian mini-series, made in 1989 by Kennedy Miller
Productions and directed by Ken Cameron, starring Nicole Kidman, shows a fictional Bangkok prison in which the protagonist is imprisoned, a
mordant reference to Hanoi Hilton, the prison known as such used by North Vietnam
during the Vietnam War.
The Hobbit, a series of three epic fantasy adventure films directed, co-written and produced by Peter Jackson and based on J. R. R. Tolkien's 1937
fantasy novel “The Hobbit”. The films
are, by subtitle, An Unexpected Journey (2012), The Desolation of Smaug (2013), and There and
Back Again (2014).
Back to the Future is a 1985 American science fiction adventure comedy film. It was directed by Robert Zemeckis, written
by Zemeckis and Bob Gale, produced by Steven Spielberg. The
film tells the story of Marty McFly, a teenager who is accidentally sent back in time from 1985 to 1955. He meets his future-parents in
high school and accidentally attracts his future mother's romantic interest.
Marty must repair the damage to history by causing his parents-to-be to fall in
love, and with the help of scientist Dr. Emmett
"Doc" Brown, he must
find a way to return to 1985.
The student of Class 9A Anar
Akperov writes: “I want to tell you about 5 best movies about travel:
1. “Indiana Jones and
Raiders of the Lost Ark”
The character first appeared
in the 1981 film “Raiders of the Lost Ark”, to be
followed by “Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom” in 1984, “Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade” in 1989, “The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles” from 1992 to
1996, and “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of
the Crystal Skull” in 2008.
2. “Diaries of the
Motorcyclist” (2004), a film about the journeys of Ce Guevara through Latin
America.
3. “Planes, Trains, and
Automobiles” (1987)
No trip is complete without
travel - and, as we know, there is little in this world so provoking for comic
situations, as a forced coexistence of two strangers. It bears proof - one of
the best films of John Hughes, the story of a hard return character Steve
Martin from New York to Chicago on the eve of Thanksgiving.
4. The Russian film “How I
spent this summer” by Alexey Popogrebsky shot in 2008-2009, about two
people working and trying to survive in extreme conditions in the North Pole.
5. “True Friends” («Верные друзья»), a comedy
directed by Mikhail Kalatozov about three old friens who had grown up and set
off for traveling to face a lot of adventures.
There are also people, professional travelers
and researches, who leave their scientific investigations for the whole
humanity to know and cherish. A bright example is Jacques-Yves Cousteau
(commonly known in English as Jacques Cousteau; 11 June 1910 – 25 June 1997), a
French naval officer, explorer, conservationist, filmmaker, innovator, scientist, photographer, author and researcher
who studied the sea and all forms of life in water.
We must say that traveling has become so
popular with people that lately there have appeared a lot of those who are not
professional writers or directors, but who cannot imagine their life without
traveling and they share their experience with others, either through the
Internet or by means of books or films. One of such people so much talked of in
the Internet is Alexey Korovin, a businessman who in 2010 indulged into
making films and books based on the motives of his adventures. This person has
his own website to share his experience: http://a-korovin.com.
Chapter 5. Our Research
“Travelling and Pupils of Our School”.
We offered a questionnaire to
the students of our school about travelling. Our purpose was to find out the
opinion of students of different ages about travelling and their experience in
it.
Questionnaire/Анкета:
1.
Do you like travelling? Любишь ли ты путешествовать?
2.
What does travelling give you? Что (какие возможности) дают тебе путешествия?
3.
What means of transport for
travelling do you use? Каким
видом транспорта ты пользуешься для путешествий?
4.
Who do you travel with? С кем тебе нравится путешествовать? (семья,
друзья, одноклассники, один)
5.
What is the place that impressed
you most? Why? Какое из
посещенных мест тебе запомнилось больше всего? Чем?
6.
What is the place you dream to
visit? Why? Какое место ты мечтаешь
посетить? Почему?
7.
Do you use English in your
travelling? In what situations?
Пользуешься ли ты английским языком во время путешествий? В каких ситуациях?
These are the results we
got:
We interviewed 100 people
from classes: 3A, 3G, 4A, 4B, 5A, 7A, 8A, 9A. The students gave the following
answers to the questions of the questionnaire.
1) Do you like travelling?
Yes – 95 students,
No - 3,
Not very - 2.
2) What does travelling
give you?
The most popular answer was
“I Learn something new and interesting about the world” – 46 people;
Leisure – 11;
Getting to know the city and
the country, the history, the traditions – 9;
Joy, pleasure – 9;
Knowledge, experience – 6;
Enjoying nature – 3;
Seeing the sights – 2;
Getting to know new people
and meeting friends – 2;
Interest in the world – 1;
Rememberings – 1;
This way I learn English – 1;
“I am developing” – 1;
“It Gives me all” – 1;
Strength and courage – 1;
Freedom – 1;
It gives the feeling on top
of the world – 1.
There were still pupils who
were hesitating and said:
“I do not know” – 3 and “It
gives me nothing” – 1.
Among the answers to this
question, many students gave several options, we took notice of the first
presented in the list.
And there were a few guys
(5-6 people), who did not understand the question and answered that travelling is
given to them by mom or dad, their work and money.
3) What means of transport
for travelling do you use?
The most popular answers
included such means of traveling as by
car, plane or train.
There are also these:
Boat - 1
Private airplane - 1
Electrical train - 1
Bike -3 people
Truck - 1
Subway - 1
Scooter -1
Ship -3
No transport -1.
We appreciate the sense of
humour of some people, it shows our students are always in a good mood and it
proves that travelling does give them positive emotions.
4) Who do you travel with?
Both family and friends -
about 43 people;
Family – 30;
Friends - about 20;
Classmates – 6;
Alone – 1.
We can clearly see that
students love and value both their family and friends. Of course, the older the
person is, the more they choose friends for traveling together.
5) What is the place that
impressed you most? Why?
The students referred to the countries,
such as the Dominican Republic, Poland, Turkey, Cyprus, Egypt, Spain, Slovakia,
Germany, Bulgaria, Thailand, Japan, Finland; such cities as: Anapa, Tbilisi,
Rome, Kazan, Gelendzhik, Krasnodar, Moscow, Paris, Milan, Nizhny Novgorod; also
the Black Sea, the Azov Sea.
But we could also find quite rare
responses:
early fishing - "I caught there a carp" (Alexander
Shcherbakov 4B),
museum Zhestovo - "there's fun and you can make yourself a
tray" (4A Abrahamyan Marina),
"when my family and I
went on a picnic, there we had a real
fun"(4A Georgadze David), the cave (7A Vitaly Nosov),
a paintball club in Germany (5A Leonov Daniel),
Vietnam – an unusual butterfly (4B Nalysheva Aina),
a camp - "it was interesting" (3G Golikova Xenia,)
Red Square - "it is very beautiful" (3A Lutsenko Sofia),
Kolomna (7A Denis Lobanov),
Kiev - delicious
food (9A Kazakevich Leonid),
Tula - museums (9A Moskalenko Andrew).
6) What is the place you
dream to visit? Why?
The answers varied: Miami,
London, rainforests, Greece, islands, Japan, Cote d'Azur, Egypt,
India, America, Africa, Australia, Goa, a chocolate factory, the jungles,
Kuskovo.
Answers:
England, London - 12
Paris, France - 12
Russia -1
Chechnya – 1
"no place" - 4
people
"I do not know" – 5.
7) Do you use English in
your travelling? In what situations?
Yes - 40 (when ordering a meal in a cafe, a shop, when
talking to an English-speaking person, in the camp);
Sometimes - 7 people (in the store or to ask for directions, if
you need to buy a soda or ice cream)
No – 53.
"When I went to
Grushinskiy festival, I was talking nearly English with an
Englishman" - wrote a student of class 4B Nesterenko
Natalia.
Thus, the results we got are
not really surprising. Travelling is something everybody likes, or at least
most of us (95%). We are sure those who do not will reveal its taste in the
future. The students still prefer to travel with their families or friends by
traditional means of transport. They still want to visit England
and France, as well as other popular today destinations. And 40% use the
English language in their traveling, which proves the need for the language.
Conclusion.
So, as you see, travelling is very interesting
to do. Every man should go where they want. We are told only about a small part
of the interesting places in the world. In fact, there is much more. And they
are all worth seeing. Also, on the subject of travel there have been shot a lot
of films and written many books.
People like travelling. Even those, who have
never visited, for example, another country, still want to travel.
We would like to finish with the words
of several famous people who loved and appreciated travelling. But we would
also wish to add: We hope you like our project, and we hope you will always be travelling.
Quotations about travelling:
·
"A journey of a thousand
miles must begin with a single step." - Lao Tzu.
·
"Twenty years from now you
will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you
did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the
trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." - Mark Twain.
·
Without travel "I would have
wound up a little ignorant white Southern female, which was not my idea of a
good life." - Lauren Hutton.
·
"Traveling is almost like
talking with men of other centuries." - René Descartes.
·
"One's destination is never a
place, but a new way of seeing things." - Henry Miller.
·
"A journey is like marriage.
The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it." - John
Steinbeck.
·
"If you reject the food,
ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better
stay at home." - James Michener.
·
"The world is a book and
those who do not travel read only one page." - St.Augustine.
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