Present these topics with one or two classmates. You can prepare your oral account with a Powerpoint document. Remember : this is not a reading exercise ! You can use the sites given here, but feel free to use others. Don’t forget to focus on our notion : Spaces and Exchanges, and try to determine why these people travelled, what they were looking for and what they found...

  The Hippy Trail : you can use this site and that one

  Route 66 : you can use this site and that one.

Watch this video and find more information about the novel by John Steinbeck.

Route 66 and the Grapes of Wrath par ky3news

You can also watch an extract from Easy Rider here.

  The Lewis and Clark expedition : use this site

Watch this video about the origin of the expedition/

  The conquest of the West : go to this site, but feel free to visit others.

 Great British explorers : read this page and choose a selection. The investigation of the World by British explorers contributed significantly to the development of modern society as we know it today. Explorers were expected to discover new lands, break records and map the world for future travellers. It was a dangerous but exhilarating opportunity for adventurers, whatever their social class, to advance scientific knowledge, acquire new mineral and agricultural resources and to make their own fortunes. Still, even those that succeeded often paid for their bravery with their lives.

An example : Captain Cook

Sara Wheeler, travel writer, said about Captain Cook : "Captain Cook discovered more of the earth’s surface than any other man and excelled as a scientist, cartographer and surveyor. He was bad-tempered - I like a touch of clay feet in a hero."

Find about his voyages and discoveries here. Usethis site to learn about his biography.

  The grand Tour : A standard part of the education of the English aristocracy between the Restoration and the outbreak of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars in 1789, though since it could take two or three years, it was extremely expensive and only a few could afford it. It therefore tended to be limited to elder sons. It had several objectives—to broaden the mind, to introduce the tourist to classical civilization, to encourage social grace, to improve the command of languages, to establish useful personal and diplomatic links, and to enable wild oats to be sown at a distance.(...) The advent of railways in the early 19th cent. meant that the journeys could be made in a few weeks and the tour did not survive in its traditional form. (definition from the Oxford Dictionary of British History)

Read more : http://www.answers.com/topic/grand-... find information about it, where and why young men undertook a Grand Tour... You can use this page, but others are available.

Portrait of Douglas, 8th Duke of Hamilton, on his Grand Tour with his physician Dr John Moore and the latter’s son John. A view of Geneva is in the distance where they stayed for two years. Painted by Jean Preudhomme in 1774. Read more : http://www.answers.com/topic/grand-...

  Travelling in films : Explore and present some of your favourite films about travelling, like this one : ...or that one :