3.Match the following synonyms from the article “Protecting Antarctica from Tourism” you are going to listen to:

at hand	idea
sprung up	pure
ets under way	near
pristine	popped up
limit	starts
wilderness	achievable
delicate	talk to
proposal	great outdoors
workable	restrict
consult	fragile

4. Match the phrases from the article “Protecting Antarctica from Tourism” you are going to listen to. Sometimes more than one choice is possible. Listen and check if you were right:

A solution may be at	tourists
get off the beaten	environment
get away from	place on Earth
for those with the deepest	the frozen wilderness
a negative effect on the pristine	track
there is a need to protect	of tourist places
Antarctica is the last unspoiled	hand
hordes of	environmental damage
auction off a fixed number	it all
contain the amount of	pockets

5. Listen to the article “Protecting Antarctica from tourism”. Decide if the statements below are true (t) or false (f):

1. Antarctica is a good place for tourists who want to avoid the crowds.

2. You cannot go to Antarctica without lots of big pockets.

3. More and more people are going to Antarctica every year.

4. A major global tour company will soon buy Antarctica at an auction.

5. There are no more unspoiled places left on Earth.

6. Antarctica became a country more than two hundred years ago.

7. There is no government in Antarctica to make laws.

8. Money from auctioning tourist places might help Antarctica’s future.

6. Listen to the recording once again and reproduce how the words below were used in the article:

1. hand

2. away

3. pockets

4. negative

5. combat

6. bidders

7. frozen

8. delicate

9. difficulty

10. proposal

11. money

12. consult

6. Write five GOOD questions about tourism in the table. When you have finished, interview other students. Write down their answers:

	STUDENT 1 ANSWERS	STUDENT 2 ANSWERS
Q.1.
Q.2.
Q.3.
Q.4.
Q.5.

6. Now return to your original partner and share and talk about what you found out. Make mini-presentations to other groups on your findings.

Discussion

1. Discuss in pairs:

1. What springs to mind when you hear the word ‘tourism’?

2. Do you like to get off the beaten track?

3. What is the ‘all’ in ‘get away from it all’?

4. Where is your perfect holiday destination?

5. Do you think Antarctica should be set up as a holiday destination?

6. How long do you think it will be before there is serious environmental damage in Antarctica?

7. Are there any pristine parts of your country?

8. Is it a good idea to auction holiday places to the highest bidders?

9. What do you imagine vacationing in a frozen wilderness to be like?

10. Is modern tourism a force for good?

11. Should we now do what we can to keep Earth’s unspoiled places unspoiled?

12. Where are there usually hordes of tourists? Have you ever been part of the hordes?

13. Do you think Antarctica should become a country?

14. What does Antarctica mean to the world?

15. What delicate ecosystems are there in your country?

Writing

1. Write a magazine article about tourism in Antarctica. Include imaginary interviews with a tour company CEO who sees millions of dollars of profit and a penguin who wants Antarctica to be left alone. Read what you wrote to your classmates the next lesson. Write down any new words and expressions you hear from your partner(s).

   Unit 9. OPINIONS