- •Модуль 2 the tourist industry Цели:
- •Entry Test
- •Учебный элемент 4 (уэ-4) The Tourist Industry
- •I. Improve your wordpower.
- •2. Mind the pronunciation:
- •3. What are the opposites?
- •4. Find the synonyms in the right column to the words given in the left column:
- •5. Match these words with the definitions below:
- •II. Reading Comprehension
- •Tourism
- •Определенный и нулевой артикли с географическими названиями и именами собственными The definite and the zero articles with geographical and proper names
- •2. Insert the definite article where necessary
- •VI. Written task
- •1. Read the text, translate it; translate extracts in italics into Russian using a dictionary in writing. Basic definitions in tourism
- •2. Answer the following questions in writing
- •3. Complete the sentences
- •VII. Intensive Reading Task
- •2. Read the text. The tourist industry
- •3. Find in the text answers to these questions:
- •4. Say what you've learned from the text about:
- •VIII*. Advanced learning
- •Учебный элемент 5 (уэ-5) Ecotourism (Environmental tourism)
- •I. Improve your wordpower.
- •1. Study your active vocabulary:
- •2. Mind the pronunciation:
- •3. What are the opposites?
- •5. Match these words with the definitions below:
- •II. Reading Comprehension
- •1. Read and translate the following text. Consult a dictionary if necessary. Ecotourism
- •III. Comprehension and Word Study
- •1. Translate into Russian
- •2. Translate into English
- •4. Complete the following statements:
- •IV. Speaking practice
- •2. Be ready to speak about ecotourism and its main principles
- •V. Grammar revision The definite article with geographic names (определенный артикль с географическими названиями)
- •1. Insert articles where necessary (explain your choice)
- •VI. Written task
- •1. Read the text, translate it; translate extracts in italics into Russian using a dictionary in writing
- •VII. Intensive reading task
- •1. Study the vocabulary list to the text
- •2. Read the text paying attention to how tourists contribute to the protection of the environment in the Alps the environmental tourist How to be an eco-friendly tourist in the Alps
- •2. Find in the text answers to these questions:
- •3. Say what you've learned from the text about:
- •4. Study the information chart and discuss the environmental issues concerning the Alps' ecosystem.
- •VIII*. Advanced learning
- •1. Study the following idioms
- •Useful phrases
- •Учебный элемент 6 (уэ-6) Regulation, research and development in tourism
- •I. Improve your wordpower.
- •1. Study your active vocabulary:
- •2. Mind the pronunciation.
- •3. Read and translate the words and their derivatives.
- •4. Match the synonyms.
- •5. Pick out the English equivalents from list a to the following Russian expressions in list b.
- •6. Make up word-combinations and translate them.
- •7. Study these words and their definitions.
- •8*. Make up topic-related sentences using the following phrasal verbs.
- •II. Reading Comprehension
- •1. Read and translate the following text. Consult a dictionary if necessary. Regulation, research and development in tourism
- •5. Join the halves.
- •6. Complete the following sentences.
- •The zero article with geographical names
- •1. Insert articles where necessary (explain your choice).
- •VI. Written task
- •1. Read the text, translate it into Russian using a dictionary. Overseas markets (bta)
- •VII. Intensive reading task
- •1. Study the vocabulary list to the text
- •2. Read an interview with Signor Pacini of the Sicilian Tourist Board who is talking about tourism in Sicily and how the regional government is trying to improve the industry there.
- •3. Read the interview again and answer the questions:
- •VIII*. Advanced learning
VII. Intensive reading task
1. Study the vocabulary list to the text
to cart in |
привезти на тележке |
to go easy on smth. |
не приносить вреда, не доставлять хлопот |
to go easy on the environment |
не засорять окружающую среду |
strive (v) |
стараться, прилагать усилия |
endangered species |
вымирающие биологические виды |
approach (n) |
приближение, подход |
approach (v) |
приближаться, подходить |
sustain (v) |
поддерживать, подкреплять |
schedule (n) |
расписание, график, план |
schedule (м) |
намечать, планировать |
choking (adj) |
удушливый |
boom (v) |
быстро расти |
to top the list |
быть во главе списка |
to be filled to capacity |
бы полностью заполненным (о гостинице) |
pollute (v) |
загрязнять |
pollution (n) |
загрязнение |
payoff (n) |
выплата, компенсация |
reduce (v) |
уменьшать, снижать |
to find out |
выяснять, узнавать |
to get by |
устраиваться, обходиться малым |
overloaded waste systems |
перегруженные системы вывоза мусора и отходов |
ski slopes |
лыжные склоны |
ski runs |
лыжня, лыжный путь |
hiking trails |
туристические, пешеходные тропы |
stray (v) |
сбиться с пути |
to avoid straying |
избегать отклонения от маршрута |
path (n) |
путь, дорожка, маршрут |
enable (v) |
способствовать |
survive (v) |
выживать |
damage (n) |
вред, ущерб |
damage (v) |
повреждать, наносить ущерб |
irreversible (adj) |
необратимый |
lush (adj) |
сочный, буйный, пышный |
2. Read the text paying attention to how tourists contribute to the protection of the environment in the Alps the environmental tourist How to be an eco-friendly tourist in the Alps
Guests at the Waldhaus Am See in St. Moritz bring more than baggage to the 36-room hotel. With manager Claudio Bernasconi's encouragement, each week in summer they cart in box loads of trash they've found in the Swiss mountains.
The visitor who brings in the most litter gets room and board for a week on the house. The record is 19 kilograms, mostly cans, collected by two Swiss women on vacation last August.
“They said they worked so hard they were going to need another holiday”, Bernasconi laughs.
The hotel's two-year-old campaign is meant to encourage visitors to protect the Alpine environment. But Bernasconi and tourist officials throughout the Alps know that responsible, or “soft” tourism requires more than picking up litter.
Successful ecotourists, they say, must start with careful planning – finding leisure activities and transportation that go easy on the environment and searching out resorts that promote active preservation of the Alps.
Once the traveler has arrived, moreover, he or she must strive to conserve energy, avoid endangered species and purchase local products, generally produced by mountain farmers who sustain the fragile landscape of the Alps. One approach to soft tourism is scheduling a trip between seasons.
Staggering of holiday schedules helps reduce the choking, noisy traffic that tops the list of environmental concerns in most Alpine regions. Alpine resorts generally boom during the height of winter, when hotels are filled to 100 per cent of capacity.
Another important way to mitigate the environmental assault from autos is to take public transportation whenever possible.
In some areas, like Zermatt, Switzerland, local transport is an attraction in itself. In Zermatt, a mountain community 1,620 meters high, cars are forbidden. In their place, a fleet of five electric buses carries skiers to lifts (the fare about $1.40).
Hotels ferry luggage on some 380 smaller electric vehicles. The payoff for the environment is low pollution and energy demand, and blissful quiet.
The environmental ethic should continue inside the hotel.
Responsible tourists should reduce their own demand for energy whenever possible by flicking off unnecessary lights, by turning down heat, and by finding out how often the hotel changes sheets and towels, and letting the concierge know if they can get by with the same laundry for a longer period of time.
Tourists who visit local shops can try to buy items with minimal wrapping that will add less trash to overloaded waste systems. They can also purchase locally made products when possible. Goods made nearby require less energy to transport, and their sale supports the Alpine economy.
Finally, ecotourists should take their environmental ethic onto the ski slopes and hiking trails of the Alps.
It is important to avoid straying from marked paths or ski runs unless a local guide is present. Snow protects plants and animals through the winter and skis can slash the blanket that enables them to survive.
The future of the alpine ecosystem depends on the behavior of the millions of tourists each year who enjoy the beauty and grandeur of the Alps. Damage done by the unthinking tourist can be irreversible, and in some parts of the Alps, trash thrown to the side of the trail will be preserved for decades in a deep freeze.
But if everyone cooperates, the payoff will be rewarding vacations in the lush alpine environment for generations to come.