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Well, Mark, today we're looking at some vocabulary and we're talking about the difference between the words travel, trip and journey.
So travel, trip and journey, it sounds like an interesting episode. Shall we get started?
Let's go.
Let's begin with travel. Tell us about travel.
Well, the first thing to know is that travel is usually a verb.
So we could say they traveled to London by train.
Okay, so we could replace travel here with the verb to go. They went to London by train.
That's right.
So that's travel.
But we could also talk about traveling, for example.
That's right. I could say I love traveling.
I love traveling too. Where do you love traveling too?
I love traveling to different cities in Europe.
Nice. I love traveling to the United States.
Very nice. When was the last time you traveled there?
The last time I traveled to the United States was about two months ago.
I went to Philadelphia and San Diego.
Okay, lovely. So you can see here we're always using travel as a verb, meaning to go.
But I've heard of travels. I'm off on my travels again.
That's right. And here travels plural.
We have to use an S here. Travels mean adventures.
So I'm off on my adventures again. Travels, adventures.
So that is travel. The next word you spoke about was journey.
What's the difference between a journey and travels?
So a journey we can use more generally than the word travels.
And journey is always a noun.
And it means the act of traveling from one place to another place.
So for example, I could say my journey to work takes 20 minutes.
That's right. Or I am exhausted after my long bus journey.
I don't like a long bus journey.
No, me neither. Very uncomfortable.
So we've talked about travel. We've talked about journey.
There's one other word we're going to talk about here.
Yes. Finally, we have the word trip.
Okay. So what is a trip?
A trip is always a noun again like journey.
And we use the word trip when we travel to a place.
Then we stay in that place. And we do some things.
After that, we make the journey back again.
Okay. Okay. So for example, we could talk about a business trip to Thailand.
That's right. So your business trip to Thailand is the whole process of going to Thailand, working there, and then coming home.
So we're like, yeah. And we take a trip.
So we're taking a trip this summer to Greece perhaps.
That's right. Yep. We take a trip or we could say we go on a trip as well.
Nice. Now earlier, you said that a trip is always a noun.
And it is always a noun in the context of journeys and trips and traveling.
However, there is a verb to trip.
There is. Yeah. I could say I was walking down the street yesterday and I tripped.
Yeah. So this is different. It means you fell over. And it's the same word, but it just is used as a verb.
And it's going to different meaning is not related to traveling journey or trip.
That's right. Yeah.
Josie, I think we should do a little bit of practice of this.
So what we've done is prepared five sentences.
And in each of these sentences, there's going to be a blank. Well, there's not going to be a blank.
There's going to be this noise.
Okay. Beautiful. And when you hear that noise, you've got to decide what the missing word is.
Is it travel? Is it journey? Or is it trip?
Okay. So do you want to take number one?
Number one. I
to work by train.
So let's think about this. I
to work by train. What's missing here?
Well, we could say I go to work by train. So here the missing verb is travel.
Okay. I travel to work by train.
Good. What we do number two.
Number two. It was a really long car.
I think the word that is missing here is journey.
That's right. Because here we're describing the process of traveling from one place to another.
It's a journey.
Just like our bus journey, our long bus journey that we talked about earlier.
That's right. Let's move on to a third one here.
So. Okay. Number three. I'd love to go on a
around the world.
Okay. So I think there are possibilities here.
I'd love to go on a
the one that seems most normal, most sensible to me is trip.
I'd love to go on a trip around the world.
Absolutely. Because here we're talking about traveling to different places
and doing lots of things in those places as well. This whole process.
We could, I suppose, see I'd love to go on a journey around the world.
That might work too.
We could. If we said a journey, that would mean more just the traveling part,
not the doing interesting things part as well.
Right. So that's good to have that contrast there.
The trip is doing those interesting things as well as the traveling.
Yeah. But the journey is more just the traveling.
Yeah. Let's do another couple of questions here.
Okay. Number four. How long will the
to roam take?
How long will the to roam take?
What do you think for this one?
Well, for this one, I think we're talking about traveling going to roam.
So how long will the journey to roam take?
Okay. So how long will that time of the actual traveling that we're doing take?
How long will the journey take?
If we were talking about the whole holiday experience in roam
and perhaps the answer to that question might be two weeks,
then I guess there we could see how long will the trip to roam take?
That's right. In that case, I would say how long will the trip to roam
last? Okay.
Instead of tape. Yeah.
Yeah. Because a journey will take a certain amount of time.
The journey to roam will take two hours by plane.
Yeah. Exactly.
Let's do one more.
All right. The final one.
My brother is on a work this week.
My brother is on a work.
I think he's on a work trip this week.
Yes. That's right. We're talking about my brother going to a place,
working there, then coming back. So it's a trip.
Excellent. So in this episode, we've been talking about three different words,
all related to travel. We've talked about travel, trip and journey.
And hopefully now you're confident in knowing which one to use when.
So I hope you've enjoyed this lesson from Coffee Break English.
If you'd like to see these examples and more information about travel, trip and
journey written down, you can look at the blog post for this lesson.
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