Watch the short travel film and write down as many features of travel writing as you can identify.

Did you include: 

• A narrative and/or a linear structure set out in clear paragraphing.

•  Reflection on and discussion of travel as a concept, i.e. broadening our horizons/knowledge of the world, different cultures, places.

•  A reflective tone, or possibly a use of the present tense with pauses for reflection to give a sense of ‘as it happens’.

•  Commentary on the methods of travel, and reflection on the ideas behind travel to include revelations or commentary on self (and others’) perceptions, and similarities and differences in societies.

•  Semantic fields of travel – including the use of foreign names and places,

• reported speech given in other languages.

•  Use of evocative language to convey the ‘sights, sounds and smells’ of a particular

• location or locations, and the use of language that appeals to the senses

•  Use of highly descriptive language, extended use of adjectival structures, use of simile and metaphor.

•  Language used to engage the reader, including use of humour, rhetorical devices and direct address.

•  Use of comparative language, i.e. drawing comparisons and contrasts by setting more familiar places against less familiar ones, usually in reference to the writer’s own background, nationality and/or culture.

•  Use of intercultural referencing – similar to points of comparison above; reflecting on similarities and differences of the writer’s culture and the one they are travelling through.