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Task 10. Imagine you are working as a tour guide. Make up an excursion around your home town. Get ready to present it in class.

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Task 1. Make up lists of active vocabulary units you could use answering each of these questions. Write the final topic using questions from this task as a plan. Get ready to present your topic in class.

1. What images spring to your mind when you hear the word ‘tourism’? What are the reasons people travel? Why is it important to have holidays / to travel? Why people choose to travel with friends/family?
2. Do people in your country travel a lot? How important is tourism to your country? What are the major tourist attractions in your country?
3. What are the advantages and disadvantages of tourism? Has your country been spoilt by tourist developments?
4. Do tourists really get to see the real countries they visit? Is organised travel the best way of learning about the world? Do you think people can learn about a country from the TV and the Internet, rather than by traveling?
5. Do you like travelling? How many countries have you visited and which is your favourite country apart from your own? Explain why. What’s the best place you’ve ever been to?
6. Which is the longest journey you have ever made? How did you travel? What events do you remember on the way?
7. What are your favourite holiday activities? Which is your favourite journey for beautiful scenery? Describe what there is to see.Which capital city is your favourite? How do you like to spend your time there? Do you enjoy touring - travelling from place to place? Describe one of your itineraries.
8. Would you like to live permanently in another country? Why or why not?
9. Do you buy travel insurance before going to visit other countries? What worries would make you take out insurance? Do you suffer from travel sickness or anxiety in cars, boats or planes? If so, what do you do to overcome these problems?
10. What do you think about media influencing travel decisions? Do you prefer to book holidays through travel agents or to make your own arrangements?
11. What do you think of the idea of space tourism?
12. Would you like to work in the travel industry? Why/why not?
13. Imagine a friend wants to get to know your country and is planning a tour. What advice would you give about places to visit, travel, accommodation, eating out, shopping, sightseeing, things to bring and souvenirs to buy?
14. St. Augustine said: " The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page." What does this mean? Do you agree?

[1] mecca - here, it means the place everybody goes to.