January Week One

 
Welcome back everyone!  It's great to start off the new year with our resolutions, time to get back to your goals with English! 

This week we discussed the positive and negative aspects of tourism, exploring how trends have shifted over time.

Listening:
Learners can listen to an activity about the negative aspects of tourism in Goa or an article from Breaking News English about tourism.  For more practice, try a video quiz about Brighton Tourism.

For original version, you can watch the short documentary Crowded Out.  Or listen to a podcast episode, What Role can Tourism Play in Development?

Reading
Learners can try an article about the history of tourism from English Magazine.  Or tryReading lessons: Tourism: Upper intermediate - Reading text from One Stop English.

For original version read an article called Are We Losing the Grand Canyon?   For something more bizarre, try The Disaster Tourist: Inside the world of dark tourism, where for just $2,500 you too could be responsible for a geopolitical calamity.

Writing:
This week for writing, please write an essay about how tourism as both positively and negatively affected your region.  What policies would you put in place to curb some trends?
Best,
Kelly