Unit 10 Ecotourism Lesson 3 Reading

Welcome to our class!


Warm up
(Work in groups of four in two minutes)
Give your answer about Costa Rica
1. Where is Costa Rica?
A. In Southeast Asia B. In Central America
C. In South Africa
2. Tourists can see a lot of ______ in Costa Rica.
A. Monkeys
B. pandas
C. tigers
3. Costa Rica is famous for ____________.
A. Beautiful seas, marine national parks and volcanoes
B. deserts, high mountains and pollution
C. Waste land and dirty beaches.


UNIT 10 – ECOTOURISM
LESSON 3: READING
Go green (page 51)


ECOTOURISM IN COSTA RICA


I. Before you read
• Activity 1: (Pair-work in 2 mins)
+ What can tourists do and see in Costa Rica?
swim in the sea

visit marine national
parks
Tourists can

watch monkeys in national
parks
see volcanos


I. Before you read
• Vocabulary:
+ Pros and cons: (n) ưu điểm và nhược điểm
+ travel brochure (n): a book for travel
+ destination (n):
điểm đến
ex: Costa Rica is one of the destinations for tourists.

+ suit (v):
ex:

phù hợp với

We have a lot of food to suit the guests’ taste.

+ entertain (v):

make someone happy, pleased


I. Before you read

• Vocabulary:
+ Pros and cons: ưu điểm và nhược điểm
+ travel brochure (n): a book for travel
+ destination (n):
điểm đến
+ suit (v):
phù hợp với
+ entertain (v):
make someone happy, pleased


II. While you read
Activity 2: Skim the passage and choose the best
title( 4 mins)
a. Sustainable Ecotourism and jobs
b. Pros and cons of Ecotourism
c. Ecotourism – A solution to environmental
problems


II. While you read
• Activity 3: Matching (pair- work in 4 mins)
Words

Meanings

1. discharge (v) 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 a new
situation
e. release

5. adapt (v)


II. While you read

Activity 4: (Group – work in 5 mins)
Make a list of the positive and negative effects of
ecotourism according to the two speakers.

Positive effects
• More money for local
government to preserve nature
• Educate tourists about the
protection of the environment
• Help tourists know about the
culture and lifestyle of local
people
• More jobs and higher income
for local people

Negative effects
• Change local
people’s way of
life


II. While you read
Activity 5: Put a tick to the appropriate boxes (6 mins)
Put a tick to the appropriate boxes

Marco Pablo

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.

√

√
√


III. After you read
Activity 6: (in groups)
Do you agree with Marco that
ecotourism can truly solve the problem
of pollution? Think about what happens
to the environment when there are
more visitors to a destination.


more water, food

and energy needed

more

waste

More

visitors

more vehicles

more
noise


III. After you read
Activity 6: (in groups)
To some extent, the answer is yes. The money from
ecotourists may be used to preserve nature. However, the
local people have to use up their resources (such as energy
sources, food and water) to provide good service for
tourists. More tourists mean more vehicles, more water
and food consumption, and more waste. Even though the
discharge of waste and consumption of natural resources
by tourists are minimised, air, water and noise pollution is
unavoidable.


Thank you for your
attendance!


Extra activity: Complete this paragraph with the
words given.

benefits parks flora Ecotourism
nature

is a new
form
way money
of tourism. It has many (1)_________. The
(2)______ from ecotourism can go back to the
(3)________, such as to preserve national
_(4)_______and species of fauna and
__(5)_____. However, ecotourism has a bad side.
It can change local people’s (6)______ of life.


Extra activity: Complete this paragraph with the words
given.

way nature
benefits
money
flora
parks
Ecotourism is a new form of tourism. It has many
(1)_________. The _(2)______ from ecotourism
can go back to the ___(3)______, such as to
preserve national _(4)_______and species of
fauna and __(5)_____. However, ecotourism has a
bad side. It can change local people’s ___(6)___ of
life.