travel
part of speech
verb, noun (travel, travels, traveled or travelled, traveling or travelling)
meaning for a pupil
1) To travel means to go from one place to another, often a long way. tree →
2) Travel is the act of travelling: air travel, space travel. tree →
3) Light and sound travel: they move from one place to another. tree →
4) Travels are journeys, especially long ones. tree →
sense in the lessons
Maths: distance, speed and time of a trip: distance = speed × time; speed = distance ÷ time. Science: sound travels through air; light travels faster than sound. Everyday: travel by car, bus, plane; travel sickness; time travel in stories.
examples
- They traveled 150 miles. tree →
- The car travels 50 miles in one hour. tree →
- How far does she travel in 3 hours? tree →
- He travels 12 km to work each day. tree →
- We traveled by plane to see Grandma. tree →
- Light travels faster than sound. tree →
- Some children get travel sick in the car. tree →
- In the story, the boy travels back in time. tree →
- "Oh, to travel there!" exclaimed others. tree →
note
US: traveled, traveling; UK: travelled, travelling. Distance = speed × time; speed = distance ÷ time. Trap: «to work each day» may need doubling for the way back.
In the corpora
- Stories grow as they travel: one mouse in the kitchen becomes "the school's closing because of rats".
- Elephants talk with very low rumbles that travel far, and they may feel them through their feet as well as hear them.
- A rabbit thumps its back foot to warn other rabbits of danger, and the thud travels through the ground into the burrow.
- Rabbits thump their back feet to warn others of danger, and the thump travels through the ground into burrows.
- Squirrel monkeys travel in big troops and often follow capuchin monkeys to find fruit trees, and many eyes spot eagles sooner.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «travel» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.