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- Greg Malivuk
- http://www.pastebin.com/u/gmalivuk
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- Homework: read p. 63 and do parts 3, 4, and 5 on p. 62 (also circle words you don’t understand)
- Vocabulary:
- But for decades, ... = However, for many years, …
- green = environmentally friendly
- greener way of getting around = a method of travel that is better for the environment
- spiraling out of control = becoming more and more uncontrolled; getting worse faster than we can control it
- harmful = dangerous; causing harm
- an almost unbroken line = there are almost no parts of the coast that don’t have beach resorts
- p. 63 part 3 - c - It looks at the negative impact of tourism.
- part 4
- 1 cruise
- 2 wildlife (and makes the population go down)
- 3 trash/waste
- 4 construction
- 5 low-cost flights
- 6 climate change
- part 5
- 1 They visit the same place over and over again, and they dump waste into the ocean.
- 2 expeditions to pick up the waste
- 3 People can take several short vacations throughout the year.
- 4 traveling by train and ecotourism (and other low-impact tourism)
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- part 6 - use the words in the box to complete the sentences
- 1 impact
- 2 trash / waste
- 3 population
- 4 habitats
- 5 greener
- 6 pollute
- noun: effect = impact
- verb: affect = impact
- pollute (verb), pollution (noun), polluted (adjective), polluting (adjective)
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- part 9 - decide how “green” each of these activities is (you could rank them from most green to least green, for example)
- then judge how green your own life is
- economy (about money)
- ecology (about the environment)
- eco-friendly = ecologically friendly = environmentally friendly = green
- (Usually “econ” means “economics”, and “eco” means “ecology”.)
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- “There is no ethical consumerism.” - You can’t improve the world just by buying different things.
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- BREAK
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- p. 64 - Dealing with travel problems
- motion sickness = feeling sick because of movement (seasick, airsick, carsick)
- travel documents = passport, visa, boarding pass, customs form, and possibly a letter from someone in the country if you need that to enter
- altitude sickness
- part 1 - Have you had any of these problems? Tell your group what happened, and what you did to fix it.
- I forgot to bring my driver’s license to the airport, but I lucked out because I still had my passport in my bag.
- (“luck” is just a noun, but “luck out” is a phrasal verb, which means to get out of a bad situation because you were lucky)
- discuss = talk about something in detail, try to understand the issues, understand why the other person has their opinion, etc.
- argue = verbally fight, when you disagree with someone and use words to try to convince them that you are correct
- debate = argue in a more formal, organized way (e.g. presidential debate)
- dispute = verbally disagree with a specific thing (but possibly there is no debate or argument about it)
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- p. 64 part 2 - listen to the conversations and mark which problem each one is about
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- p. 64 part 3 - listen again and mark who says each statement (T or G) (also: what about Beijing?)
- toiletries = the typical things you bring with you to use in the bathroom (toothbrush, toothpaste, deodorant, shaving supplies, etc.)
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- Homework: p. 163 practice 2, and write (2 or 3) sentences describing “possible” travel problems
- Example: I arrive in Paris and realize the airport is very far from the city, and the buses and trains have stopped running.
- (The examples on my curriculum are: double booking, lost passport, zombie infestation, etc.)
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