UNIT 10: ECOTORISM
Lesson 3: Reading

What did you see?
1. City
2. Culture
3. Coffee
4. Adventure
5. Tours
6. Volcano

7. Rainforest
8. Eco- luxury
9. Rustic
10. Cloud forest
11. Nature
12. Beaches

13. National
park
14. Surfing
15. Yoga
16. Fishing
17. Nightlife

Activity 1: Discuss: What tourists can do or see in Costa Rica?
Tourists can swim
in the sea.
Visit marine
national parks.
See the volcanoes.
Watch the
monkeys in
national parks...
etc.

discharge (v) /dɪsˈtʃɑːdʒ/

rapidly /ˈræpɪdli/ = quickly

fauna (n) /ˈfɔːnə/:

brochure
(n)
/ˈbrəʊʃə(r)/:

destination (n)
/ˌdestɪˈneɪʃn/

adapt (v) /əˈdæpt/

pros (n) /proʊs/ >< cons (n) /ˈkɒns/ = advantages >< disadvantages

Vocabulary

discharge (v) /dɪsˈtʃɑːdʒ/ : thải ra
rapidly /ˈræpɪdli/ = quickly
fauna (n) /ˈfɔːnə/: quần thể động vật
flora (n) /ˈflɔːrə/: quần thể thực vật
brochure (n) /ˈbrəʊʃə(r)/: sách nhỏ thông tin
destination (n) /ˌdestɪˈneɪʃn/: nơi đến
exotic (adj) /ɪɡˈzɒtɪk/: đẹp kỳ lạ
adapt (v) /əˈdæpt/: sửa lại cho phù hợp, thích nghi
pros (n) /proʊs/ >< cons (n) /ˈkɒns/ = advantages >< disadvantages

Activity 2:
A. Sustainable Ecotourism and Jobs
B. Pros and Cons of Ecotourism
C. Ecotourism - A Solution to Environmental Problems

Activity 3: Match these words with their meaning
1. Discharge

a. All the plants of a particular area

2. Fauna (n)

b. Exciting and unusual

3. Flora (n)

c. All the animals living in an area

4. Exotic (a)

d. Change in order to be suitable for
new situations

5. Adapt (v)

e. release

Activity 4:
Positive effects
Negative effect
- more money for the local
government to preserve
nature
- tourists' awareness of how
to protect the environment
- more jobs and higher
income for local people

- changing local people's
way of life

Activity 5:

 Marco says
 Pablo says
 Both of them say

1. Ecotourism can be beneficial to local people.
2. Ecotourism can solve the problem of pollution.
3. Ecotourism can change local people's way of life.
4. To build hotels, people destroy forests.
5. Tourists learn how to protect the environment.
6. Ecotourism is something I don't understand very well.
7. I understand ecotourism and its benefits very well.

Marco Pablo

Activity 6:

Discuss in table groups.

1. Do you agree with Marco that ecotourism can truly solve the problem of
pollution?

 To some extent, the answer is yes.

2. Think about what happens to the environment when there are more visitors to
a destination.

 The money from eco- tourists may be used to preserve nature.
However, the local people have to use up their resource (such as
energy sources, food and water) to provide good service for
tourist. More tourists mean more vehicles, more water and food
consumption, and more waste. Even though the discharge of
waste and consumption of nature resources by tourists are
minimised, air, water and noise pollution is unavoidable.

Pros

Ecotourism

- more money for the local
government to preserve
nature
- tourists' awareness of how
to protect the environment
- more jobs and higher
income for local people

Cons

- changing local people's
way of life