Compose a second part of the story "Anthony in Blue Alsatia" with the view of showing how the newspaper article influenced Anthony's further life, behaviour or psychology.
Make a round-table discussion of the story in which one part of the partic ipants will criticize the story pointing out its weak points, and the other will de fend it enlarging on its merits.
PROFESSION-ORIENTED QUESTIONS AND ACTIVITIES
I. Listen to your fellow-students' reading of Ex. 2, detect their mistakes and cor rect them.
II. Analyse your fellow-students' reading of Ex. 3 by demonstrating the correct way of pronouncing the word combinations.
III. Read out Ex. 4 to your fellow-student; ask him to analyse your mistakes and correct them.
IV. a) Adapt the text for the 10th form level, b) Make up 10 questions covering the adapted text. (Lay emphasis on the beautiful nature that fascinated Anthony.)
V. a) Make a list of possible talking points on the topic "Man and Nature" that would be of particular interest for teen-agers, b) Work out topical vocabulary lists on some of them.
VI. Conduct a part of the lesson. Test the members of the class on their home work (check on their spelling, vocabulary or the content of the text). Use the fol lowing for prevention and analysis of their mistakes:
1. Open your books at...; 2. Your wording is wrong. 3. You've mispronounced the word. 4. I've lost the gist because of the bad wording. 5. You don't keep up with class. 6. It's too fragmentary to be pieced together. 7. That was a glaring error! 8. We could gain lit-tle information from your answer. 9. This is a troublesome letter/ sound/word. 10. A bad/good choice of words! 11. You don't seem to have prepared anything.
VII. Take up problem-solving situations 16-20 (See the Appendix). Discuss them in class.
CONVERSATION AND DISCUSSION
TRAVELLING. HOLIDAY-MAKING.
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
Topical Vocabulary
air travel beauty spots
be swarming with tourists
bird's-eye view cable railways camping equipment camp site
chemical waste (to treat chemical waste)
cut down forests
discharge sewage into rivers (lakes, etc.) do sightseeing
environment n (environmental a; - protection) get a tan
get back to nature
in the middle of nowhere
laze around
litter n, v (to drop -) off the beaten track
package tour pitch/put up the tent play it off the cuff pollute v
pollution n (discharge of -; - controls) sea travel
see the sights
ski-lifts n
sleep rough
snorkel v (i.e. to go in for underwater swimming)
soak up the sun sunbathe v
take a chance with the weather throw-away products
tourism n; tourist n travel agency/bureau
travel for pleasure
wind-surf v
I. I am sure we'll all agree that travelling is one of the most fascinating pas-times. Seeing new places, probably new countries (and why not?!), meeting new people what could be more interesting? Besides, travel immensely enlarges one's scope and so forms an essential part of a person's education.
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Yet, different people have different views as to the best ways of travelling. Let us see first what Richard Aldington, the prominent English twentieth-century writ-er, has to say on the point.
1. a) Read the following:
He also discovered the real meaning of travel. It sounds absurd to speak of a fifteen-mile walk as "travel". But you may go thousands of miles by train and boat between one international hotel and an-other, and not have the sensation of travelling at all. Travel means the consciousness of adventure and exploration, the sense of cover-ing the miles, the ability to seize indefatigably upon every new or familiar source of delight. Hence the horror of tourism, which is a conventionalising, a codification, of adventure and exploration which is absurd. Adventure is allowing the unexpected to happen to you. Exploration is experiencing what you have not experienced before. How can there be any adventure, any exploration, if you let somebody else above all, a travel bureau arrange everything beforehand? It isn't seeing new and beautiful things which matters, it's seeing them for yourself. And if you want the sensation of cover-ing the miles, go on foot. Three hundred miles on foot in three weeks give you infinitely more sense of travel, show you infinitely more surprising and beautiful experiences, than thirty thousand miles of mechanical transport.
(From: "Death of a Hero" by R. Aldington)
Explain the following:
Travel means the consciousness of adventure and exploration...
Hence the horror of tourism, which is a conventionalising, a codification, of adventure and exploration...
