- •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
2. Find in the text answers to these questions:
1. How did one Swiss hotel help protect the environment?
2. What does "soft" tourism require?
3. What should successful ecotourist start with?
4. How do responsible tourists sustain the fragile landscape of the Alps?
5. What is another approach to soft tourism?
6. Why is staggering of holiday schedules so vital in most Alpine regions?
7. Are there any other ways to mitigate the environmental assault from cars?
8. How should the environmental ethic continue inside the hotel?
9. What shopping principles should ecotourists follow?
10. How can ecotourists protect the environment on the ski slopes and hiking trails of the Alps?
11. What does the future of the alpine ecosystem depend on?
12. Why is damage done to the nature irreversible?
13. What is the payoff for everyone who takes care of the environment?
3. Say what you've learned from the text about:
a) at least ten ways of being a good “ecotourist”;
b) “soft” tourism (or Green Tourism) principles;
c) the roles of local community in protecting the future environment of the Alpine ecosystem.
4. Study the information chart and discuss the environmental issues concerning the Alps' ecosystem.
Black Alps? — 100 million people visit the Alps each year,
— they spend $52 billion in the region but none of the money is used to protect the Alps;
— the 41,000 ski lifts harm the environment. Forests and rivers are damaged by salt and sewage (human waste);
— the environment is polluted by gases from private cars;
— the destruction of the forests leads to avalanches and land-slides (falling land and rocks);
— A German survey found that 58 per cent of tourists noticed damage to the Alps (such as dead trees and erosion) |
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Green Alps? — All ECAp5 countries have signed an agreement to protect the Alps;
— the Swiss want a law which 'makes the polluter pay';
— Swiss tourist offices now give visitors a booklet on how to be good 'ecotourists';
— Clarins, the French cosmetic firm, has created a butterfly sanctuary in the Alps (there is already one for alpine birds);
— Suchard chocolates are paying for alpine tree re-plantation;
— "Green" charities are training local people in traditional alpine jobs, from carpentry to building mountain chalets. |
a) The Alps are Europe’s largest ecosystem, shared by 12 million people.
What laws are needed to protect them?
What harm are tourists doing to them?
What guidelines could be used to treat them better?
b) Who should pay to protect the Alps?
the EC?
national governments?
local people?
visitors?
the polluters ?
c)* Give reasons for your answer.
Are tourists starting to think about environmental tourism in Belarus? How and where? If not? Why not?