The Reading / Listening - The Travel Bug - Level 1

Travelling is good for us. It broadens the mind. A new study says it could slow down the ageing process. Researchers from Australia said travelling could make us look and feel younger. Having different experiences could make us more youthful. Researcher Fangli Hu said: "Tourism could contribute to people's physical and mental health". She added: "Ageing, as a process, is irreversible. While it can't be stopped, it can be slowed down."

Going on vacations, backpacking and sightseeing can lower stress. Travelling can strengthen our immune system and repair our body. Ms Hu said we do activities like hiking, climbing, and cycling. These can reduce stress and tiredness in our muscles. Ms Hu added: "Participating in these activities could enhance the body's immune function and self-defence." The researchers said travelling might be better than anti-ageing creams.

Try the same news story at these levels:

    The Travel Bug - Level 0 The Travel Bug - Level 2   or  The Travel Bug - Level 3

Sources
  • https://www.cnn.com/travel/travel-news-health-impacts-tourism/index.html
  • https://www.aol.com/could-traveling-keep-young-scientists-142500847.html
  • https://www.ecu.edu.au/newsroom/articles/research/travel-could-be-the-best-defence-against-ageing


Make sure you try all of the online activities for this reading and listening - There are dictations, multiple choice activities, drag and drop activities, sentence jumbles, which word activities, text reconstructions, spelling, gap fills and a whole lot more. Please enjoy :-)

Phrase Matching

Paragraph 1

  1. Travelling is good
  2. It broadens
  3. make us look and
  4. make us more
  5. Tourism could
  6. people's physical and
  7. Ageing, as a process, is
  8. it can't be
  1. irreversible
  2. contribute
  3. for us
  4. stopped
  5. youthful
  6. the mind
  7. mental health
  8. feel younger

Paragraph 2

  1. Going on
  2. backpacking and
  3. strengthen our immune
  4. repair our
  5. activities like hiking, climbing,
  6. tiredness in our
  7. enhance the body's immune
  8. better than anti-
  1. system
  2. and cycling
  3. ageing creams
  4. function
  5. sightseeing
  6. vacations
  7. muscles
  8. body

Listening — Listen and fill in the gaps

Travelling is (1) ___________________. It broadens the mind. A (2) ___________________ it could slow down the ageing process. Researchers from Australia said travelling could (3) ___________________ and feel younger. Having different experiences could (4) ___________________ youthful. Researcher Fangli Hu said: "Tourism could contribute to people's (5) ___________________ health". She added: "Ageing, as a process, is irreversible. While it (6) ___________________, it can be slowed down."

(7) ___________________, backpacking and sightseeing can lower stress. Travelling can (8) ___________________ system and repair our body. Ms Hu said we (9) ___________________ hiking, climbing, and cycling. These can (10) ___________________ tiredness in our muscles. Ms Hu added: "Participating (11) ___________________ could enhance the body's immune function and self-defence." The researchers said travelling might be better than (12) ___________________.

Put a slash (/) where the spaces are

Travellingisgoodforus.Itbroadensthemind.Anewstudysaysitcouldsl
owdowntheageingprocess.ResearchersfromAustraliasaidtravellingc
ouldmakeuslookandfeelyounger.Havingdifferentexperiencescould
makeusmoreyouthful.ResearcherFangliHusaid:"Tourismcouldcontr
ibutetopeople'sphysicalandmentalhealth".Sheadded:"Ageing,asapr
ocess,isirreversible.Whileitcan'tbestopped,itcanbesloweddown."Go
ingonvacations,backpackingandsightseeingcanlowerstress.Travelli
ngcanstrengthenourimmunesystemandrepairourbody.MsHusaidwe
doactivitieslikehiking,climbing,andcycling.Thesecanreducestressan
dtirednessinourmuscles.MsHuadded:"Participatingintheseactivities
couldenhancethebody'simmunefunctionandself-defence."Theresea
rcherssaidtravellingmightbebetterthananti-ageingcreams.

Student survey

Write five GOOD questions about this topic in the table. Do this in pairs. Each student must write the questions on his / her own paper. When you have finished, interview other students. Write down their answers.

(Please look at page 12 of the PDF to see a photocopiable example of this activity.)

Discussion — Write your own questions

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Free writing

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Answers

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