Ejercicio Exercise B.2 · Inglés PAU Aragón Extraordinaria 2022

CAMPING AND RECREATIONAL VEHICLES

Have you ever gone camping? If you haven't, you must know that it is a recreational activity in which participants take up temporary residence in the outdoors, normally using a tent or a specially designed or adapted vehicle for shelter. Such a vehicle is usually known as a recreational vehicle, often abbreviated as RV. It is a motor vehicle or trailer which includes living quarters designed for accommodation. Types of RVs include motorhomes, campervans, coaches, and caravans (also known as travel trailers and camper trailers).

Camping was at one time only a rough, back-to-nature pastime for hardy open-air lovers, but it later became the standard holiday for vast numbers of ordinary families. The founder of modern recreational camping was Thomas Hiram Holding, who wrote the first edition of The Camper's Handbook in 1908. His urge to camp derived from his experiences as a boy: in 1853 he crossed the prairies of the United States in a wagon train, covering some 1,200 miles.

Repeating Holding's adventure nowadays would probably involve shopping for an RV or a camper, although you should first know the different classifications and the correct terminology. RV and camper are generic terms. When people refer to RVs, they usually mean either a motor vehicle or a trailer equipped with some of the amenities of home. On the other hand, the term “camper” typically refers to trailers that are towed by trucks, or ride on the back of trucks, whereas motorhomes are motorized units that usually have beds, a kitchen, bathroom and living quarters.

EXERCISE B.2: Answer the following questions according to the information given in the text. Use your own words. (2 points)

a)

How has camping evolved over time?

b)

What was Thomas Hiram Holding's contribution to modern recreational camping?