Unit 10 Ecotourism Lesson 3 Reading

Before you read • Vocabulary: + Pros and cons: n ưu điểm và nhược điểm + travel brochure n: a book for travel + destination n: điểm đến ex: Costa Rica is one of the destinations for tour[r]

Welcome to our class!

Warm up

(Work in groups of four in two minutes)

Give your answer about Costa Rica

1 Where is Costa Rica?

A In Southeast Asia B In Central America C In South Africa

2 Tourists can see a lot of in Costa Rica.

A Monkeys B pandas C tigers

3 Costa Rica is famous for .

A Beautiful seas, marine national parks and volcanoes

B deserts, high mountains and pollution

C Waste land and dirty beaches.

UNIT 10 – ECOTOURISM

LESSON 3: READING

Go green (page 51)

ECOTOURISM IN COSTA RICA

I Before you read

• Activity 1: (Pair-work in 2 mins)

+ What can tourists do and see in Costa Rica?

Tourists can

visit marine national

parks swim in the sea

watch monkeys in national

parks see volcanos

• Vocabulary:

+ Pros and cons: (n) ưu điểm và nhược điểm

+ travel brochure (n): a book for travel

+ destination (n): điểm đến

ex: Costa Rica is one of the destinations for tourists.

+ suit (v): phù hợp với

ex: We have a lot of food to suit the guests’ taste.

+ entertain (v): make someone happy, pleased

I Before you read

• Vocabulary:

+ Pros and cons: ưu điểm và nhược điểm

+ travel brochure (n): a book for travel

+ destination (n): điểm đến

+ suit (v): phù hợp với

+ entertain (v): make someone happy, pleased

I Before you read

Activity 2: Skim the passage and choose the best

title( 4 mins)

a Sustainable Ecotourism and jobs

b Pros and cons of Ecotourism

c Ecotourism – A solution to environmental

problems

II While you read

• Activity 3: Matching (pair- work in 4 mins)

1 discharge (v) a all the plants of a particular area

2 fauna (n) b exciting and unusual

3 flora (n) c all the animals living in an area

4 exotic (a) d change in order to be suitable for a new

situation

5 adapt (v) e release

II While you read

Activity 4: (Group – work in 5 mins)

Make a list of the positive and negative effects of

ecotourism according to the two speakers

Positive effects

• More money for local

government to preserve nature

• Educate tourists about the

protection of the environment

• Help tourists know about the

culture and lifestyle of local

people

• More jobs and higher income

for local people

Negative effects

• Change local

people’s way of life

II While you read

Activity 5: Put a tick to the appropriate boxes (6 mins)

Put a tick to the appropriate boxes Marco Pablo

1 Ecotourism can be beneficial to local people.

2 Ecotourism can solve the problem of pollution.

3 Ecotourism can change local people’s way of life.

4 To build hotels, people destroy forests.

5 Tourists learn how to protect the environment.

6 Ecotourism is something I don’t understand very well.

7 I understand ecotourism and its benefits very well.

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II While you read

III After you read

Do you agree with Marco that ecotourism can truly solve the problem

of pollution? Think about what happens

to the environment when there are more visitors to a destination

Activity 6: (in groups)

More visitors

m ore water, food and energy needed

more noise

more

waste

III After you read

To some extent, the answer is yes The money from ecotourists may be used to preserve nature However, the local people have to use up their resources (such as energy sources, food and water) to provide good service for tourists More tourists mean more vehicles, more water and food consumption, and more waste Even though the discharge of waste and consumption of natural resources

by tourists are minimised, air, water and noise pollution is unavoidable.

Activity 6: (in groups)

Thank you for your

attendance!

Extra activity: Complete this paragraph with the words given.

of tourism It has many (1) _ The (2) from ecotourism can go back to the (3) , such as to preserve national _(4) _and species of fauna and (5) _ However, ecotourism has a bad side

It can change local people’s (6) of life

Extra activity: Complete this paragraph with the words given.

way nature benefits money flora parks

Ecotourism is a new form of tourism It has many (1) _ The _(2) from ecotourism can go back to the _(3) , such as to preserve national _(4) _and species of fauna and (5) _ However, ecotourism has a bad side It can change local people’s _(6) _ of life