Tourism and local communities

C1 Advanced · Speaking Collaborative · Cambridge Ready original exercise

Talk with your partner for about two minutes about the question in the middle, using the ideas around it. Then you have about a minute to reach a decision together.

Now I'd like the two of you to have a conversation for around two minutes. Here are some areas of local life that tourism can affect, along with a question for you to discuss. Take a few seconds to read through them.

Tourism and local communities

local businesses

the natural environment

the cost of housing

everyday life for residents

roads and public transport

Now spend about a minute agreeing on which effect local people would care about most.

Now, talk it through together: how might tourism affect the places that visitors go to?

How might tourism affect the places that visitors go to?

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