English 10 unit 10 ecotourism lesson 3 reading

Activity 1: Discuss: What tourists can do or see in Costa Rica?Tourists can swim in the sea.. Positive effects Negative effect- more money for the local government to preserve nature

UNIT 10: ECOTORISM

Lesson 3: Reading

What did you see?

1 City

2 Culture

3 Coffee

4 Adventure

5 Tours

6 Volcano

13 National park

14 Surfing

15 Yoga

16 Fishing

17 Nightlife

7 Rainforest

8 Eco- luxury

9 Rustic

10 Cloud forest

11 Nature

12 Beaches

Activity 1: Discuss: What tourists can do or see in Costa Rica?

Tourists can swim

in the sea.

Visit marine

national parks.

See the volcanoes

Watch the

monkeys in

national parks

etc.

discharge (v) /dɪsˈtʃɑːdʒ/

rapidly /ˈræpɪdli/ = quickly

fauna (n) /ˈfɔːnə/ :

brochure

(n)

/ˈbrəʊʃə(r)/ :

destination (n)

/ˌdestɪˈneɪʃn/

adapt (v) /əˈdæpt/

pros (n) /proʊs/ >< cons (n) /ˈkɒns/ = advantages >< disadvantages

discharge (v) /dɪsˈtʃɑːdʒ/ : thải ra

rapidly /ˈræpɪdli/ = quickly

fauna (n) /ˈfɔːnə/ :

flora (n) /ˈflɔːrə/ :

brochure (n) /ˈbrəʊʃə(r)/ :

destination (n) /ˌdestɪˈneɪʃn/ :

exotic (adj) /ɪɡˈzɒtɪk/ :

adapt (v) /əˈdæpt/ :

pros (n) /proʊs/ >< cons (n) /ˈkɒns/ = advantages >< disadvantages

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Vocabulary

Activity 2:

A Sustainable Ecotourism and Jobs

B Pros and Cons of Ecotourism

C Ecotourism - A Solution to Environmental Problems

1 Discharge

b Exciting and unusual

2 Fauna (n)

3 Flora (n)

4 Exotic (a)

5 Adapt (v)

a All the plants of a particular area

c All the animals living in an area

d Change in order to be suitable for

new situations

e release

Activity 3: Match these words with their meaning

Positive effects Negative effect

- more money for the local

government to preserve

nature

- tourists’ awareness of how

to protect the environment

- more jobs and higher

income for local people

- changing local people’s way of life

Activity 4:

 Marco says

 Pablo says

 Both of them say

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

Activity 5:

Activity 6: Discuss in table groups

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

pollution?

2 Think about what happens to the environment when there are more visitors to

a destination.

However , the local people have to use up their resource (such as

consumption , and more waste Even though the discharge of

waste and consumption of nature resources by tourists are

 To some extent , the answer is yes

Pros Cons

- more money for the local

government to preserve

nature

- tourists’ awareness of how

to protect the environment

- more jobs and higher

income for local people

- changing local people’s way of life

Ecotourism