Journeys long ago: by ship, by camel, by train
A journey is going from one place to another. A trip is a short visit, and you come back the same day or soon after. A voyage is a long journey by sea. We say: go on a journey, take a trip, go on a voyage, sail by ship, ride a camel, travel by train. When we talk about the past, the verbs change: go becomes went, take becomes took, ride becomes rode, and sail becomes sailed and travel becomes travelled. Long ago, people crossed the desert by camel and the sea by sailing ship, and a journey took many days or weeks. Today a train or a plane is much faster. To ask about a trip, we say: Where did you go? How did you travel? How long did it take?
| Long ago | Today |
|---|---|
| by camel across the desert | by car or by bus |
| by sailing ship across the sea | by plane or by big ship |
| on foot or on a horse | by train |
| a journey of many weeks | a journey of a few hours |
Where did you go last summer, Hoda?
I went to Alexandria with my family.
How did you travel?
We travelled by train. It took about three hours.
Did you see the sea?
Yes, I did. We took a trip along the beach and rode a horse.
Trip interview. The child is the reporter and the grown-up tells about a real or invented trip. The child asks: Where did you go? How did you travel? How long did it take? Did you like it? Then the child says three sentences about the answers, using went and travelled.