- •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
3. Find in the text answers to these questions:
1. Why is tourism the fastest growing industry?
2. What is the difference between a "tourist" and an "excursionist"?
3. What are the most common reasons for travelling?
4. Why do tourist statistics include those people who are travelling on business?
5. What is the difference between the terms "accommodations" and "catering facilities"?
6. What has the development of tourism as a mass industry depended on? Why?
7. When did the words "tourism" and "tourists" appear?
8. What is the name of the best known company in the tourist industry?
4. Say what you've learned from the text about:
a) tourism and its importance to people; b) the reasons why people travel so widely; c) accommodations and catering facilities; d) the way tourism started.
VIII*. Advanced learning
1. Study the following idioms
Idiom |
Meaning |
Fishing expedition |
If someone is on a fishing expedition, they are trying to obtain information in any way possible. "The lunch invitation was clearly a fishing expedition to obtain information about his private life." |
Get into full swing |
When something, such as an event, gets into full swing, it is at its busiest or liveliest time. |
Swim against the tide |
A person who is doing or saying the opposite to most other people is said to be swimming against the tide. "It's because she swims against the tide that her books are so successful." |
Take someone for a ride |
If you are taken for a ride, you are deceived or cheated by someone. "When my father was persuaded to invest in the new casino, he was really taken for a ride." |
Skating on thin ice |
If you are skating on thin ice, you are doing or saying something that could cause disagreement or trouble. "Don't mention that subject during the negotiations or you could be skating on thin ice." |
2. Make up topic-related sentences with the given idioms (idiom – sentence).
3. Make up a topic-related presentation using the given idioms (as many as possible). It could be a story of a guide; an advertising text (a commercialAp5); a fairytale.
IX. Unit revision task
1. Think of your presentation on “The Tourist Industry” using as much as possible of the information studied. Be ready to speak to the audience.
Useful phrases
somehow or other |
так или иначе |
at that |
при этом |
apart from |
кроме того |
for all that |
несмотря на все это |
2. Unit progress test
Choose an appropriate variant.
1. Travelers included in the category of “tourists” are … .
a) refugees b) diplomats c) excursionists
2. Last year I visited … Mexico and … Irish Republic.
a) –, the b) –, – c) the, –
3. … Chicago is on … Lake Michigan.
a) the, the b) –, – c) the, –
4. … south of England is warmer than … north.
a) –, the b) –, – c) the, the
5. … Statue of Liberty is at the entrance to … New York Harbour.
a) –, the b) the, – c) the, the
6. Tourism as we know it today began with the building of the … in the XlXth Century.
a) airports b) railroads c) seaports