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Summative Assessment for Unit 8 «Travel and tourism»

Learning objectives9.4.5.1 Deduce meaning from context in extended texts on a

range of familiar general and curricular topics

9.5.3.1 write with moderate grammatical accuracy on a wide range of familiar general and curricular topics;

9.5.7.1.Use independently appropriate layout at text level ona growing range of general and curricular topics

Assessment criteria Identify the meaning and details of the reading texts on

familiar topics and draw conclusion by reasoning

Develop coherent paragraphs at text level using grammar structures If only/I wish

Use an appropriate layout in writing

Level of thinking skills Application

Duration 20 minutes

Reading Read the article about travel and tourism.

Travel and tourism

What’s the difference between travel and tourism? Well, being a traveler is more than just being a holidaymaker. A holiday is just a short time away, and it normally involves relaxation. Tourists stay in holiday resorts, not travelers. Travelers go for the experience and their journeys are usually much longer and more challenging. For example, travelers tend to avoid tourist traps and like to go off the beaten track to discover new places. Travel is an age-old phenomenon, but tourism is a relatively recent invention. Thomas Cook is often described as the first travel agent because he arranged the “package tour”: a 19-kilometre trip for 500 people, in 1841.

Going overseas in order to experience a different way of life is what many people think of as travel, but travel does not necessarily mean going abroad. How many people can say they have visited every part of their own country? Many people who live in vast countries such as Russia and the USA have only visited a small part of their own country, and so domestic travel is also very exciting. It’s a surprising fact that about 75 percent of US citizens do not own a passport, so travelling does not mean leaving the country for them.

Some people can’t travel or don’t like the physical reality of travelling to faraway destinations. These days it is easy to be an “armchair traveler”. People can visit distant corners of the world or even little known parts of their own country without leaving their living rooms. Television documentaries make the world a small place and some people argue that travel is no longer necessary. Perhaps soon people will use interactive computer programmes and virtual travel…