2A Around the world

5PEAKING 2 Read the article again. What do the numbers

in the box refer to?
1 Work in pairs. Oiscuss these questions.
• What do you like and dislike about travelling? 100,000 more than 60 three
• Who is the most widely-travelled person that you 30,000 ten more than five 60
know? Where has he/ she been? Why did he/she go
there? 3 Match the highlighted phrasal verbs in the article to
• According 10 an Englisb saying, travel broa.dens the words and phrases 1-6.
the min.d. Do you agree? In what ways has travel
1 meets by chance
broadened your mind?
2 left. "" .,.
3 maoaging to
1
READING 4 stayed 'b-
S corobining <. r'
1 Work in pairs. You are going toread an article about a 6 started (a journey) A
long journey. look at the photos and headline. Think of
two possible answers for each of the questions. -4 Work in pairs. Discuss these questions.
1 Why did the lawyer decide to cycle around • Would you consider giving up your job or studies 10 do
South America? something like Alvaro did? Why or why not?
2 Why is he dressed as a clown in the second photo? • Have you ever wanted to go on a long lrip like
Alvaro's? Where would you like to go?
Now read the article and find out if you were right.

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M
ore t'lan ten years ago, a Spanish lawyer
ma good job and left a comfortable life to cycle
around the world. Ten years and almost 100,000
30
kilometres later, he's still very happy with his decision, 'You
s only ltve once and life in an office just isn't a life; he says.
He began his journey in South Ame rica. The first country he
visited was Bolivia Since he first :iJ!l!E
on his adventure
he has visited more than 60 countraes. The JOurney has
already taken hm to three continents and most of Asia still
10 lies ahead. He is currently cycling through Mongolia and
Japan is the next country on his route.
He spends two or three months in each country, but he has
never for more than five days in any one place.
Alvaro is on a budget of three dollars a day,
15 and has slept m fire statiOns, police stations and churches,
in the mountains of Nepal and the dry Atacama desert of
Chile.