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صفحة: 44
Bill Bryson is a well-known travel writer . In his book , A Walk in the Woods , he tells about hiking the Appalachian Trail , a 2 , 1 00-mile trail that starts in Georgia and ends in Maine , USA . 1 Read the statement taken from an interview with Bill Bryson . "I think it's very interesting to read about places that I'm unlikely ever to go to , or circumstances under which I ' m unlikely to see them . " Do you agree ? Why or why not ? 2 Consider which of the following endings are true for you . I would read a travel book if it : ? had an interesting story . ? were written by a well-known writer . ? were short enough to read in an afternoon . ? had good descriptions of places . ? contained funny stories . ? were about a place I had visited . ? were about a place I wanted to visit . 3 Read and find out what Bill Bryson considers the job of a travel writer to be . "I think it's very interesting to read about places that I'm unlikely ever to go to , or circumstances under which I ' m unlikely to see them . I know how hard it is to write descriptive passages in a fresh way . IfI go to a mountaintop and the view is great , whatever I write , in the first draft , always sounds like something you'd write on a postcard : 'Mom , it ' s breathtaking . 'Itwas stupendous . "Everyone in the world has done travel writing after a fashion , because everyone who has gone on vacation has written somebody a letter or a postcard . And most of those phrases that spring to mind have been used . It's very hard to describe something that ' s particularly beautiful or majestic or whatever in a way that's fresh and original . " Complete the sentence on According to dill dryeon , the moat difficult partof travel writing 15 ... .
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