Module test 3 (4th year) reading (Variant I)

Read the article about the tourism industry in Sierra Leone and answer if the sentences are true or false.

SIERRA LEONE

With a long stretch of coastline on the Atlantic Ocean, Sierra Leone is bordered by Guinea to the north and Liberia to the south. Its natural features are varied: the coastal region is low-lying and sandy, whereas inland the terrain is more mountainous. The country has a population of about four million, and 7,000 people are currently employed in the tourism industry.

Sierra Leone is a late arrival on the tourist scene. In 1989, the foreign exchange earned from tourism was $17.4 million, or just 2 per cent of Gross National Product. In that year, most of the 25,000 holidaymakers who arrived in the country by air came from France, followed by North America and the United Kingdom.

At the moment, the country has just eight hotels, concentrated on the 38km of coastline around the capital, Freetown. With funding from the European Union, the government is expanding the limited telephone system and hopes to build a network of hotels, roads, and service stations across the country. Plans are also under way to develop safari-type holidays, together with forest explorations, game-hunting, and bird-watching.

But the tourism industry in Sierra Leone has a number of problems to overcome.

Like other developing countries, it does not yet have the resources to provide the kind of facilities Western tourists expect, such as good roads, modern hotels, and airports.

Roads linking the airport to the capital and the surrounding beaches are poor, pitted with holes, and dangerous to drive along at night. There is also an acute shortage of petrol and the country's postal service remains basic.

To develop better facilities, a country like Sierra Leone needs to attract foreign investors, and provide incentives in the form of tax relief or exemption from customs duties. Recently, the government passed a Tourism Development Bill to encourage the expansion of tourism. The Bill identifies particular areas which might be developed for tourism, provides much-needed incentives for foreign investment, and introduces controls on the number and quality of new buildings.

1. Sierra Leone has a short coastline on the Atlantic Ocean

2. The coastal region is mountainous whereas inland the terrain is sandy.

3. The population is 7 000 people.

4. First holidaymakers came from France.

5. Sierra Leone has just eight hotels across the country.

6. Tourism industry has a number of problems.

7. They need resources to provide facilities Western tourist expect.

8. It’s dangerous to drive along the night.

9. The government doesn’t do anything to attract foreign investors.

10. Tourism Development Bill introduces controls on the number and quality of new building.

Listening (variant I) Listen to the tape and determine if the following statements are true or false.

	True		False
1. Holiday prices fell in May.
2. Three million holidays were sold half-price.
3. Last year tour operators sold 9.5 mln holidays.
4. This year more holidays will be sold.
5. Over a third of British families go on package holidays.
6. Travel agents only sold this year’s holidays to people
who hadn’t had a holiday.
7. Accommodation prices are rising faster than inflation.
8. Each of the big tour operators has 17 per cent of the

market.

(Variant I)

Task 1. Give definitions for:

free-lancers;

amusement park;

sightseeing excursion;

salary;

wages.

Task 2. Translate into English:

нанимать на работу;

1. следить за событиями в области туризма;

2. отвечать за работу какого-либо подразделения;

3. быть осведомленным о чем-либо;

4. дорогой, для состоятельных людей.

Task 3. Choose an appropriate form of the verb in each sentence:

1. Please, phone the airport and ask what time the first flight to Amsterdam shall leave / leaves?

2. The Antarctic will certainly become / will certainly be becoming an important tourist destination.

3. It’s not surprising he won’t do / is not to do any work for you – you don’t pay him.

4. I won’t have / am not having time to see you. I’ll have finished / ‘ll be finishing the report on Monday morning.

5. The Prince of Wales is to open / will have been opening the new theme park on April 1^st.

6. The coffee tastes / is tasting delicious.

7. If you will be free / are free tomorrow night, you will go / are going to the concert.

8. I will tell / tell you as soon as I will know / know.

9. My father has worked / worked for the company for 5 years. Then he gave it up.

10. How often did you fall / have you fallen in love?