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Which type(s) of tourism
1. are the most expensive? 2. don’t involve big travel expenses? 3. put the traveller’s life at risk? 4. involve reconnecting with nature? 5. have recently become or are becoming more popular? 6. involve travelling to a remote area? 7. could involve taking part in some kinds of rituals? 8. relate to personal development: intellectual or spiritual? 9. involve visiting the sites, that have become famous after certain events? 10. don’t necessarily include travelling abroad?
B) Discuss the questions below in pairs.
Which type(s) of tourism
1. isn’t suitable for a family with young children? 2. would orderly people enjoy? 3. have you or your family enjoyed? 4. would you like to experience? 5. wouldn’t make you interested? 6. you and your partner would agree on trying together?
6. Write a definition for:
Armchair tourism, coastal tourism, winter tourism, hobby tourism, shopping tourism, sports tourism
LESSON 5: DECODING A PHOTOGRAPH
| Active vocabulary: off-road |
| Receptive grammar:complex gerund constructions |
| Communicative area: summarizing, giving opinion |
A) Work in pairs. Try to name as many jobs in tourism as you can. Use a dictionary. Compare your list with the list of your partner.
B) Would you like to have a job in tourism? Why?
c) What is your idea of a "good job"?
A) The people in the pictures below work as tour guides. Discuss the questions in pairs. (илл. 7.5.1-7.5.4)
What does a job of a tour guide involve? What are the main responsibilities of a tour guide? What is the most difficult part of the job?
B) Look at the pictures again. Where do you think these tour guides work? What kind of tours do they offer? What are the other places tour guides can work at?
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A) Listen to the introduction to the interview with one of the tour guides in the pictures. Check your ideas for ex.1 and answer the following questions. Which tour guide is being interviewed? Were you right about his/her job?
B) What do the words below have to do with the tour guide’s job?
off-road, scouting the rout, degree in business, wilderness medicine, one-way flight, handlebars straightened, anecdotes
C) Listen to the interview again and take notes to summarize Andrew’s answers to the following questions.
1. Where do you work?
2. What does your job involve?
3. Why did you choose this job?
4. Did you have the appropriate education?
5. Why did you have to travel so far?
6. What is the best and the worst part in your job?
A) Put the statements from the interview together.
| 1. I hadn’t much hope of this plan working, | without another person getting in your way. |
| 2. Instead of his son finishing school with a degree in business like my father had originally planned, | he had to watch me doing a hundred off-road driver training days with Land Rover. |
| 3. Nowhere else can you travel the distances you can in Australia | of her son finding a way to make a living as a writer. eight hours a day. |
| 4. Besides that, I’ve heard | of the whole country being crazy for adventure driving. |
| 5. Adventure travel is all | I’ve created and collected. |
| 6. Anyway, after my coming back it’ll take some time to make something of the stories | but I just couldn’t see myself sitting in a cubicle and writing Excel formulas. |
| 7. My mom has been dreaming | about your staying positive when things go wrong. |
b) Study the information about Complex Gerund Constructions at page …. Then find these constructions in the sentences above.
C) What is the role of gerund construction in each of the sentences above?
Discuss the questions below in pairs.
1. Have you ever seen a tour guide at work? Share your experience. 2. Do you find the job of a tour guide exciting? 3. What are the advantages and disadvantages of this job? 4. What skills do you need to be a professional at this job? Do you have these skills? 5. Would you like to try working as a tour guide part-time? Why/why not?
LESSON 6: TRIPADVISER.COM
| Active vocabulary:visa, apply, health insurance, re, input |
| Communicative area:reading a forum, giving recommendations |
Work in pairs. Look at the picture below. Do you agree with the reasons? What would you change or add to the banner? (илл. 7.6.1)
Work in pairs. You are planning to visit a foreign country you’ve never been to. What kind of information will you need before leaving? Make a list of questions to ask your travel agent.
