Traveling - Reading

Hi my dears....
Hoje estava pensando o quanto a aula de ontem foi boa e quanto vocabulario conseguimos extrair de um texto interessante. Muito mais que isso, praticamos as pronuncias e claro não deixa de ser um listening.
Começei a refletir sobre isso essa manhã e resolvi colocar o texto pra vocês aqui, leiam muuuiiitooo pessoas... a leitura te leva a um outro nivel de Inglês e claro cultura, como eu sempre digo; Inglês é Cultura!
Tentem ler em vóz alta, isso estimula seu cerebro a pensar no significado e também trabalha seu listening.
Eu estou adicionando um mini-vocabulario. Caso tenham dúvidas deixem um comentário que eu responderei com muito prazer.

Hope you have a great day,
kisses
Elen


Why traveling is important?

...Because there is a constant need for people not only to just "spread the wealth", but to actually broaden their perspectives, this allows them to better appreciate what they have as well as learn to get along better. Other reasons for traveling include "escaping" the office to recharge those batteries by relaxing with family and friends, business concerns, and it will also help people make better choices in the future. The best way to do this is to see and experience things personally. Television, radio, and even the internet are great for keeping people posted on what is happening in the world and providing entertainment, but they are "filtered". Nothing is ever quite the same as being there. Shows or books can never portray the reality of having experienced something first had. With modern graphics, real war looks a lot like a video game. The "Country Boy" needs to travel to the city. He can then experience skyscrapers reaching to the heavens and better understand the true horror of one collapsing and killing thousands of people. He will learn what massive amounts of smog and car exhaust smell like; hear the noise and feel the frustration of traffic jammed up for miles, moving at a snail's pace. He then knows why it is important to control emissions or how tempers can flare on the freeway. When he heads back to the country, he can relate better to those news stories on car pile ups or the horror of a building on fire that he sees on CNN. Traveling helps to better understand these things, this is important. It is the same reason that a "City Girl" needs take a trip to the country. She learns what the corn ripening looks like and smell the flowers, then better realize what damage a drought can do. Let her visit the forests and meadows when possible. By seeing and listening to the birds, she will realize that the sounds are often much more subtle and colors more complex than on a show. Now she can appreciate the delicacy of the rain forest that she watches on PBS, and knows if she wants to help save it, it won't be easy. The same applies to overseas traveling. Poverty isn't as real to most people unless they have seen the children playing with no clothes in the street; war is much more horrible and to be avoided when you have seen the places and people in person. You will learn the importance of charities in poor places, the value of freedom, and how greedy some people can be! One cannot really envision the size or the Grand Canyon or the beauty of the Vatican if there is nothing with which to compare it. The more one sees, the better one can relate with what is happening in the world, and the more one will appreciate what they have or what is needed. Experiencing other cultures will also teach one that different doesn't always mean better or worse, just different. There are lots of ways for people to interact, the best way to understand this is to experience it. City people want their space; country people have lots of space, so want contacts. A small, overpopulated country has limited resources and problems can become overwhelming. If you have traveled there you may understand why some solutions won't work, but others might; you might even be the one to find the right solution! Understanding is the key to learning to get along, and understanding comes with experience. And sometimes that understanding comes easier when we are relaxed and at ease, and traveling is important for this as well! There is nothing like a lovely vacation to some remote destination to help you forget those petty problems and put things in perspective. You bond with your family and you bond with yourself; healing and helping both. So, why is traveling important? It gives people an appreciation and basis for understanding the world. It lets one experience the wonder of our planet as well as its diversity. It helps us to relax. It teaches us to get along. It makes us one world.


Vocabulário:

portray: retratar
filtered: filtrado
skyscrapers: arranha céu
snail´s pace: passo de caracol
drought: seca
subtle: sutil
greedy : mesquinho
petty: insignificante
jammed up: engarrafado; bagunçado, bebado, gripado
PBS: Public Broadcast Service