Listen to the benefits of ecotourism and complete the following sentences with ONE or TWO words

1. With ecotourism, the communities get financial rewards without__________  on the environment.

2. The__________and those people who are dependent upon it have to pay a high price for tourism.

3. Ecotourism can be the chance to__________in a unique, hands-on capacity.

4. The actual needs of various rural__________worldwide may be different from what people see in pictures and films.

5. If the government gives__________to ecosystems, they are far more likely to survive.

Write a short paragraph (120 -150 words) about problems of ecotourism.

You can answer the following questions as cues:

• What are the problems of ecotourism?

• Why are there these problems?

• What should be done to control it?

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Talk about measures to develop sustainable ecotourism in Viet Nam.

You can answer the following questions as cues:

* What are the measures?

* What can these measures help?

Useful languages:

Complete the notes:

Now you try!

Give your answer using the following cues. You should speak for 1-2 minutes.

1. ... so measures must be applied to develop ecotourism.

2. The first and most important measure is ...

3. .. issue laws to regulate ecotourism-related matters.

4. ... fine tourists who violate the rules.

5. As a result, ... protect and preserve original and clean beauty of the nature.     

Now you tick!

Did you ...

q answer all the questions in the task?

q give some details to each main point?

q speak slowly and fluently with only some hesitation?

q use vocabulary wide enough to talk about the topic?

q use various sentence structures (simple, compound, complex) accurately?

q pronounce correctly (vowels, consonants, stress, intonation)?

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Read the following passage and do the tasks below.

Friendlier Footprints

Providing five-star luxury in the middle of a treasured wilderness without damaging the environment might not be easy, but it is far from impossible. The King Pacific Lodge in British Columbia’s Great Bear Rainforest proves that if enough care and attention is taken, the task is within the reach of any tourist provider.

Unlike many other hotel building projects no trees were cut down and no land was wasted in order to build it. The Lodge does not have a permanent location but sits on a floating barge towed into the sea bay in May, where it anchors till September. Those wishing to stay in one of its seventeen rooms must access it by boat or seaplane. Each guest staying at the Lodge is charged 3 % conservation tax, but is rewarded by the chance to sight whales and bears. And since these are the main attractions of the area and of the Lodge, the management is well aware that in order to stay in business they must leave the area untouched.

In 2000, the Lodge management signed an agreement with the native Gitga’at people by whom they were later adopted. Together they work for the benefit of the area. The Lodge recognises the native tribe as the owners of the land, pays the tribe for the use of their land and even supports the native youth and employs the tribe’s people. They, in turn, teach the newcomers about the local culture.

The King Pacific Lodge is one of a growing number of tourism companies that go beyond purely minimising their environmental impact to win the approval of the local community where they establish their business. These companies use eco-friendly solutions to problems, and are careful to restrict their use of resources and protect threatened species. Realising how destructive tourism can be, they want to avoid the love-it-to-death effect of tourism and leave a lighter environmental footprint.

(Solutions Intermediate - Student’s Book)

Choose the best answer to each of the following questions.

1. According to the text, luxury hotels___________.

Put the verbs in brackets in the correct forms of Conditional Sentence Type 1.

E.g.: If I am busy tomorrow, I (be)__won’t be__able to help you.

1. If I am thirsty, I (find)_________something to drink.

Put the following given words into correct column according to their primary stress.

Tourists/ may not/ review/ service/ correctly/ positively.

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Michael doesn’t get more pocket money. He can’t ask Doris out for dinner.       

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Put the verbs in brackets into the correct form.

E.g.: If you work hard, you (win)__will win__the prize.

1. You (be) _________so tired if you went to bed earlier.

She would spend a year in the USA if it (be) _________easier to get a green card.

My brother would buy a sports car if he (have) _________money.