✈️ Welcome to our writing-focused lesson! Today we’ll master the art of writing about travel experiences and territorial concepts.

📝 Travel Vocabulary Essentials

• Journey – An act of traveling from one place to another
• Expedition – A journey undertaken for a specific purpose
• Territory – An area of land under jurisdiction
• Border – A line separating two political areas
• Landscape – All the visible features of an area

🔧 Grammar Focus: Narrative Tenses

For travel writing, we use different past tenses:

Past Simple: Completed actions
« We crossed the border at dawn. »

Past Continuous: Background actions
« The sun was setting as we arrived. »

Past Perfect: Actions before other past actions
« We had prepared our documents before the journey. »

🌄 Descriptive Language for Territories

Adjectives to enrich your descriptions:

• Vast – Very large in area or size
• Remote – Far away from populated areas
• Fertile – Capable of producing abundant vegetation
• Rugged – Having a rough, irregular surface
• Coastal – Relating to the coast

📚 Morphosyntactic Rules: Prepositions of Movement

Essential prepositions for travel writing:

• Across – From one side to the other
• Through – Moving in one side and out the other
• Over – Above and across something
• Into – Entering a space
• Towards – In the direction of

📌 Examples:

• « We walked across the vast desert. »
• « The river flows through the valley. »
• « We’re heading towards the mountains. »

🖋️ Writing Structures

Effective sentence patterns for travel narratives:

• « As we ventured further, the landscape became… »
• « What struck me most was… »
• « The territory stretched before us like… »
• « Never before had I witnessed… »

📊 Comparative Structures

For comparing different territories:

• « Unlike the coastal regions, the interior… »
• « Similarly to other border areas, this territory… »
• « This landscape contrasts sharply with… »

🎯 Memory Tip: Use the TRAVEL acronym for your writing: Territory description, Route explanation, Adventures recounted, Vivid vocabulary, Engaging emotions, Logical structure. 🗺️

🌟 Key Takeaway: Effective travel writing combines precise vocabulary, correct grammar, and vivid descriptions. Practice these structures to make your writing come alive! ✨