Туризм: раскрывая творческий потенциал

Министерство сельского хозяйства Российской Федерации

Департамент научно-технологической политики и образования

Федеральное государственное бюджетное образовательное 

учреждение высшего образования

«Волгоградский государственный аграрный университет»

Факультет сервиса и туризма

Кафедра «Иностранные языки»

О. А. Тамочкина
Е. Г. Шахнубарян

ТУРИЗМ: РАСКРЫВАЯ 

ТВОРЧЕСКИЙ ПОТЕНЦИАЛ

Учебно-методическое пособие

Волгоград

Волгоградский ГАУ

2018

УДК 811.111
ББК 81.2 Англ
Т-17

Рецензенты:

доктор педагогических наук, профессор кафедры теории английского 
языка, директор Института иностранных языков ФГБОУ ВО 
«ВГСПУ» Л. А. Милованова; кандидат филологических наук, доцент 
кафедры «Иностранные языки» ФГБОУ ВО Волгоградский ГАУ 
Е.А. Сухова

Тамочкина, Оксана Александровна

Т-17 Туризм: раскрывая творческий потенциал: учебно-методическое 
пособие / О. А. Тамочкина, Е. Г. Шахнубарян. – Волгоград: ФГБОУ 
ВО Волгоградский ГАУ, 2018. – 76. с.

Данное учебно-методическое пособие содержит профессио
нально ориентированные оригинальные тексты на английском языке, 
а также задания и упражнения к ним. В пособии использованы оригинальные тексты из сети Интернет, прессы, энциклопедий и других 
справочных изданий.

Цель пособия – формирование профессионально ориентирован
ной иноязычной компетенции, формирование профессионально ориентированного иноязычного тезауруса, развитие навыков анализа текста и навыка дискуссии на заданную тему с использованием проработанного лексико-грамматического материала, словаря специальных 
терминов, правил написания личных и деловых писем. 

Учебно-методическое пособие предназначено для аудиторной и 

самостоятельной работы бакалавров по направлению подготовки 
43.03.02 «Туризм» профиль «Технология и организация туроператорских и турагентских услуг», специалистов среднего профессионального 
образования по направлению подготовки 43.02.10 «Туризм» дисциплина «Иностранный язык в сфере профессиональной коммуникации».

УДК 811.111
ББК 81.2

© ФГБОУ ВО Волгоградский государственный 

аграрный университет, 2018

© Тамочкина О. А., Шахнубарян Е. Г., 2018 

PART 1

LESSON 1

TYPES OF HOLIDAY

1. Read the text and choose the right answers to the questions:
1) What does the word “holiday” mean here?
a) A business travel
b) A fest
c) A break from work
d) A period of recreation

2) What is the main criterion for holiday?
a) Tourists’ age
b) The aim of holiday
c) Value for money
d) Seasons

3) What kind of tourism is popular in our region?
a) Holidays relative to sport activities
b) Travelling for recreation
c) Adventure holiday
d) Ecotourism

4) Which of these activities can’t be added to the list of types of 

holidays?

a) Scuba – diving
b) Shopping
c) Hunting
d) Recreation

Holiday is an extended period of recreation, especially spent away 

from home or travelling. A break from work or a day of festivity or recreation when no work is done is also called the same way.

This means that holiday is a kind of tourist activity that is not con
nected with work or business. Therefore, to make out which types of tourist 
activity refer to holiday one should exclude all kinds of business travelling 
and then it’s quite possible to compose a list of types of holiday according 
to different criteria.

Such criteria might be duration of holiday, its geography, tourists’ 

mobility, their age, transportation, seasons, value for money, etc.

But the main criterion is the aim of holiday. Different people take 

holidays on various purposes. Some go hunting, others prefer to climb 
mountains. A lot of people have holidays relative to sport activities, such as 
hiking, cycling, horse-back riding, rowing and canoeing, as well as scubadiving or even bungee jumping. There are also such purposes as recreation, 
treatment and medical care. In this case people can choose resort or a spa. 
Tourism for recreation is very popular in our region. The local nature is 
perfectly suitable not only for treatment but also for various kinds of adventure holiday. Today a great attention is paid to ecological tourism and 
Krasnodar territory is the very place to develop it in.

I think shop-tourism and business travelling cannot be added to the 

list of types of holiday, for they are related to work.

No less important criterion in this classification is how a holiday can 

be organized. It may be done with the help of some travel agencies, tour 
operator companies, or one can organise his rest himself, that is, selfcatering type of holiday takes place here.

One of the tourist activities is studying. I’m not sure if it is a type of 

holiday, but one should not forget that for some people studying is more 
recreating and relaxing than for example hunting or climbing mountains.

Nowadays there are many kinds of work and each of them requires its 

own type of holiday. So the number of types of holiday is steadily growing.

2. Choose the word or phrase that is closest in meaning to the 

underlined word. Make sentences based on the text using them.

1. Holiday is an extended period of recreation, especially spent away 

from home or travelling.

a) long 
b) wide 
c) late

2. One should exclude all kinds of business travelling.
a) decide 
b) not include 
c) admit

3. Such criteria might be duration of holiday.
a) length of  time 
b) period 
c) shortage

4. Different people take holidays on various purposes.
a) many criteria 
b) different reasons 
c) different aims

5. Tourism for recreation is very popular in our region.
a) medical care 
b) relaxation 
c) vacation
6. The local nature is perfectly suitable not only for treatment but al
so for various kinds of adventure holiday.

a) business trip 
b) tourism for recreation
c) exciting journey

3. Fill in the table using the information from the text:

Criteria of defining 

types of holidays

Purposes of taking 

a holiday

Organization 

of holidays

4. Ask 10 questions to the text.

5. Put the sentences in the right order to make up a plan of the 

text. Retell the text according to the plan.

 Shop tourism and business travel cannot be added to the list of 

types of holiday.

 A lot of people have holidays relative to sport activities
 There are various criteria of describing types of holiday.
 No less important criterion is how a holiday can be organized.
 Different people take holidays on various purposes.
 One of the tourist activities is studying.
 There are also such purposes as recreation, treatment and medical care.
 Holiday is a kind of tourist activity that is not connected with work 

or business.

 Nowadays the number of types of holiday is steadily growing.
 Today a great attention is paid to ecological tourism.

LESSON 2

1. Before you read the passage, talk about these questions:
1) What countries are the most popular tourists’ destinations, do you 

think? Why?

2) What makes a country popular for tourists?
3) Can the tourists’ popularity of a particular country be increased? 

Which way? 

2. Read the text and say:
a) how tourism is defined;
b) what travel was like in its earliest days;
c) what place the industry of tourism is on nowadays;

HISTORY OF TOURISM

Tourism is defined as the act of travel with the intentions of recrea
tional pleasure. The World Tourism Organization defines a tourist is someone who travels at least 50 miles or 80 kilometers away from their home, 
for the purpose of entertainment and pleasure. 

The terms tourist and tourism were first recognized in 1937 by the 

League of Nations, whose definition involved a person who traveled abroad 
for more than 24 hours. Tourism is the act of paying money to go from one 

place to another to see different and unique sights, has been a fact of civilized life since approximately the 12th century. Of course, back in those 
days it was basically the upper class that had the time, the money, and the 
interest in travelling from one spot to another.

The word "travel" by the way comes from the medieval English word 

"travail" which means suffering great hardship, and that is a very good description of travel in its earliest days. Much has been written about the 
journeys of Marco Polo, who until recently was considered the world's first 
tourist. 

The advent of air travel in the 1930's heralded the true beginnings of 

what is called "tourism" today. People move from all around the country, 
whether by plane, boat, car, bus or train. Today's Travel for the Masses Data from the American Society of Travel Agents (ASTA) suggests that at 
any given moment of any given day, more than 2 million people around the 
world are in the process of traveling from one place to another. The world 
tourism organization claims that tourism is currently the world`s largest industry. With annual revenues of almost 3 trillion, its economic impact is 
second to that of only the weapons industry.

3. Vocabulary.
Match the English words with their translation:

1. ntention
2. entertainment 
3. definition
4. to involve
5. broad
6. sights
7. approximately
8. upper class

a) появление
b) приблизительно
c) годовой доход
d) средневековый
e) влияние
f) привлекать
g) намерение
h) достопримечательности

9. medieval
10. hardship
11. advent
12. herald
13. currently
14. annual revenue
15. impact
16. weapon 

i) развлечения
j) высший класс
k) определение
l) трудности
m) возвещать
n) оружие
o) за рубежом
p) в настоящее время

4. Fill in the table using the words below.

Active vocabulary
Synonyms
Antonyms

1. entertainment 
2. to involve
3. abroad
4. approximately
5. upper class
6. currently
7. annual revenue
8. at least
9. unique
10. medieval

Synonyms:
Income per year, at the present time, about (nearly), very special, not 

less than, amusement, to entail, of the middle ages, in a foreign country, of 
the highest social status.

Antonyms:
Modern, exactly, lower class, usual, at home, monthly income, to ex
clude, routine, in the past, the most that is possible.

5. Put the words in the right order to compose sentences:
1) The, great, “travel”, the, meant, word, suffering, medieval, hard
ship, in, English.

2) A, is, travels, someone, tourist, away, for, home, entertainment, 

who, from, pleasure, and.

3) Past, in, one, basically, the, to, time, the money, upper, and, had, 

the interest, in, from, class, place, the, another, the, travelling.

4) Move, train, today, all, the, whether, people, plane, boat, world, 

car, or, around, by, bus.

5) Largest, world’s, is, tourism, the, industry, currently.

6. Translate into English:
1) Туризм – это путешествие по разным местам с намерением 

развлечься и получить удовольствие.

2) На сегодняшний день туриндустрия является второй по вели
чине индустрией в мире, уступая лишь оружейной промышленности.

3) Существует много описаний путешествий Марко Поло, кото
рый до сих пор считается первым туристом в мире.

4) Ежегодный доход от туриндустрии составляет приблизитель
но три миллиарда евро.

5) В настоящий момент люди часто путешествуют по зарубежью, 

с целью увидеть разнообразные уникальные достопримечательности.

7. Write an E-mail to your friend. Describe three facts which you 

think are the most interesting for him or her to know. 

8. Make up a plan of the text and retell it.

LESSON 3

TYPES OF TOURISM

Today people are crazy about travelling. There are many different 

types of tourism and some of them are very strange. 

Look through the definitions of different forms of tourism and 

match the word with its description.

1. Extreme tourism or shock tourism  
2. Agritourism
3. Medical tourism
4. Cultural tourism
5. Ecotourism
6. Educational tourism  
7. Gambling tourism
8. Luxury tourism  
9. Private tourism
10. Event tourism

11. Disaster tourism
12. Virtual tourism
13. Dental tourism

_____ is patient movement from highly developed nations to other are
as of the world for medical care, usually to find treatment at a lower cost.

____ is traveling to such places as Atlantic City, Las Vegas or Monte 

Carlo for the purpose of gambling at the casinos there.

____ is traveling to a disaster scene not primarily for helping, but be
cause one finds it interesting to see. It can be a problem if it hinders rescue, 
relief and repair work.

____ goes beyond staying in the top suite of hotels. It is about seek
ing the rare experiences on our planet.

____ is farm based tourism, helping to support the local agricultural 

economy.

____ is traveling on your own with your own guide and vehicle or 

transportation. You can start and stop at your liking. You can stop and view 
the penguins and not be pressured to follow others.

____ is a type of niche tourism involving travel to dangerous places 

(mountains, jungles, deserts, caves, etc.) or participation in dangerous 
events.

____ is traveling to an education institution, a wooded retreat or 

some other destination in order to take personal-interest classes, including 
cooking classes with a famous chef or crafts classes.

____ involves visiting historical or interesting cities, such as Paris, 

Shanghai, Rome or Warsaw. This is when tourists engage in cultural experiences, like visiting an art museum, theater or opera.

____ is a subset of the sector known as medical tourism. It involves 

individuals seeking dental care outside of their local healthcare systems and 
may be accompanied by a vacation.

____ is a type of tourism when a particular event, e.g. the Olympics 

in London is "sold" to tourists. It seeks to maximize the tourist numbers by 
advertising and online promotions, and capitalize on the event by organiz