• Speaking

• What types of tourism exist in your country? What types you think are the most suitable for your country? Why? What types could be developed?

• Project

• Using internet websites make a PowerPoint presentation about one of the type of tourism. Don’t forget to mention

• aims pursued by this type of tourism

• potential customers

• possible itineraries (countries)

• etc.

• Part 5 the most popular forms of tourism. Ecotourism

• Vocabulary

• Read and memorize the following words

• responsible _adj

• pristine _adj

• strive _v

• purport _v

• empowerment _n

• foster _v

• generation _n

• untouched _adj

• intervention _n

• appeal _v

• volunteering _n

• involve _v

• heritage _n

• primary

• goal _n

• insight _n

• appreciation _n

• habitat _n

• conventional _adj

• evaluate _v

• recycling _{n, adj}

• energy efficiency _n

• tranquil _adj

• unpolluted _adj

• conserve _v

• well-being _n

• marginal _adj

• misunderstand _v

• tool _n

• malpractice _v

• realm _n

• carry out _v

• in the name of

• splendid landscape _n

• detriment _n

• sensitize _v

• condemn _v

• disagree _v

• currently

• controversial _adj

• Comments

• The International Ecotourism Society (TIES) unites conservation, communities and sustainable travel while promoting responsible travel to natural areas while conserving the environment and improving the well-being of local people. TIES works by creating an international network of individuals, institutions and the tourism industry, educating tourists and tourism professionals.

• The gross domestic product – The monetary value of all the finished goods and services produced within a country's borders in a specific time period, though GDP is usually calculated on an annual basis. It includes all of private and public consumption, government outlays, investments and exports less imports that occur within a defined territory.

• Greenwashing (green whitewash) is the practice of companies disingenuously spinning their products and policies as environmentally friendly, such as by presenting cost cuts as reductions in use of resources. The practice of companies making their products appear to be environmentally sound by putting them in green packages, claiming they are biodegradable (when they are not), etc.

• Label – a brief description given for purposes of identification; trade name of a company.

• Language focus

• Many prefixes such as un-, in-, im-, ir-, il-, mis- and dis- essentially mean not and create a negative.

prefix	meaning/use	example
il, im, in, ir + adjective	opposite	illegal, impossible, indirect, irregular
dis +verb	negative/opposite	dislike
mis + verb	wrongly/badly	misunderstand
un + adjective/ verb	negative/opposite	unhappy, unlock

• Ir- is used with words that begin with r: regular – irregular

• Il- is used with words that begin with l: legal – illegal

• Im- is used with words that begin with m or p: possible – impossible