English for Tourism 2

Hawaiian families and communities who have lived for generations in a particular
valley or along a river are still forced out by a proposed golf course or hotel. Recently
this happened to families in Hanna and Maui, as well as to farming communities in
Maunawili and Waianae on Oahu. Displaced Hawaiians commonly find their way to
remote beaches only to be evicted later. Crowded beaches and commercial tourboating
threaten shoreline fishing through noise or chemical pollution. Tourism is
cutting the ties between native Hawaiians and our land, culture, tradition and lifestyle.
As it gets more difficult to continue out traditional ways of life Hawaii becomes more
and more dependent on an already uncertain and overdeveloped tourist industry.
(The new internationalist July 1993)
Comprehension
1- Write the number of the paragraph which contains the following information
a- A tourist resort has been built on a sacred Hawaiian burial ground
b- Tourism has forced Hawaiians to abandon their traditional ways of life
c- The host culture is presented to tourists in ways which degrade the country and its
people.
2- What is “hula marketing” why is the author critical of it?
3- In what ways have the religious beliefs of native Hawaiians been disregarded by
tourist development? How have some Hawaiians demonstrated the way they feel about
this disregard for their culture?
4- Select the collocations (multi-word expressions) in the text which are used instead
of the descriptions on the following page.
Description
A law passed by the Supreme Court
People representing different local communities
A project to build a resort composed of condominium
Collections of human remains which are untouched
Girls who are covered with flowers
An unreal representation of a particular culture
Boats used to take paying passengers on sight seeing
trips
Traditional local meals which are held at night in the
open air
Collocation
A Supreme Court ruling
VOCABULARY
(EXTRACTED FROM TOURISM – NEIL MCBURNEY)
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