3. Определите, являются ли предложения истинными или ложными.

a) Tourism hasn’t played an important role in the worldwide economy.

b) Tourism is a trip away from a person's usual place of residence for less than 24 hours.

c) International tourism means tourist travel in different countries.

d) Accommodations are places for relax.

e) Ecotourism is travel to pristine environment.

4. Соедините пары.

Internal отдых

recreation размещение, жильё

destination открытие

pleasure внутренний

excursion наследие

accommodation воздействие

discovery пункт назначения

exploration исследование

heritage экскурсия

impact удовольствие

customs экскурсия

excursion традиции

5. Дополните предложения, используя данные слова и словосочетания:

destination, recreation, internal, purposes

a) Tourism is travel for pleasure or ____.

b) ____ tourism is tourist travel within tourist’s native country.

c) Tourist ____ is a place or area to which tourists travel.

d) Different people have different ____ of travel.

6.Тема 2: Сохранение природы и культуры

CONSERVATION OF NATURE AND CULTURE

1. Прочитайте текст “Conservation of nature and culture”. Подберите заголовок к каждому абзацу. Один заголовок лишний.

a) List of the current international values

b) The most significant world event

c) Ecological disasters

d) Interrelation of the nature and culture

e) The idea of conservation of nature

2. Переведите текст, используя словарь.

Conservation of nature and culture

1) Mankind has long recognized the necessity to protect the territories of natural, historical and recreational values. The idea of conservation is probably as old as the human species. Conservation involves practices that preserve the resources of the Earth on which human beings depend and that maintain the diversity of living organisms that share the planet. This includes such activities as the protection and restoration of endangered species, the careful use or recycling of scarce mineral resources, the rational use of energy resources, and the sustainable use of soils and living recourses.

2) Preserving the planet's remaining natural areas is one of our most urgent responsibilities. There is no substitute for a stable hydrological cycle, healthy pollinator populations, or the general ecological stability that only natural areas can confer. Ecological health and cultural health are related. Environmental and cultural degradation are entangled in many places: the destruction of the forests and indigenous forest cultures in Indonesia, Canada, or Brazil; the ecological and social collapse of the Aral Sea basin; the flattening of North American life and landscapes into homogenous shopping malls. Thus the struggle to save wild places is also an act of economic and cultural self-preservation.

3) The most significant feature of the 1972 World Heritage Convention is that it links together in a single document the concepts of nature conservation and the preservation of cultural properties. The Convention recognizes the way in which people interact with nature, and the fundamental need to preserve the balance between the two. The Convention defines the kind of natural or cultural sites which can be considered for inscription on the World Heritage List. The idea of protecting the world's shared heritage emerged after World War II in response to growing concern about threats to important cultural and natural landmarks. UNESCO launched the first global campaign to save cultural heritage in 1960, when 50 countries raised money to rescue the ancient Egyptian temples of Abu Simbel from flooding due to construction of the Aswan High Dam. Other early campaigns focused on conserving Venice in Italy and the Buddhist temples in Indonesia.

4) In 1972 172 of the world's 192 nations have signed the treaty to collectively protect natural and cultural areas of "outstanding universal value" that transcend national boundaries and belong to all of humanity. The current list includes 563 cultural sites (buildings, monuments, and properties with aesthetic, anthropological, archaeological, ethnological, historical, or scientific value) with 15 among them in danger. Masterpiece buildings, such as the Versailles palace and the Taj Mahal, and monuments from past civilizations, the Great Wall and Stonehenge, headline the cultural list.