A Tourist TrapI. Introduction1. Reading: Quick dilemmas: Highlight your choices:

Do you choose….? Or…? Do you choose…? Or…?

sun snow New York New Zealand

Paris London skiing shopping

hotel camping bus underground

cycling swimming nature culture

Europe exotic places food shopping

beach mountains adventure relaxing

museum shopping trekking bus tour

plane car Italy Spain

organised tour discovery hidden temple shopping mall

countryside city hammock surfboard

walking driving hotel rented house

France Germany grilled grasshoppers hamburgers

spaghetti wok noodles spectacular views spectacular clubs

clubbing fine dining America Asia

cocktails wine discovery guided tour

Asia Africa meeting people enjoying nature

infinity pool a shack in a forest alone in nature meeting new people

2. Tourist Types

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Study the answers of your neighbour. Based on his/her answers, which type/ types of holidaymaker do you think your neighbour is?Could you indicate these types of people with the correct name?

foodie, naturist, backpacker/ drifter, party animal, fashionista, culture buff, mass tourist, sports enthusiast, thrill seeker, beach bum/ sun worshipper, jetsetter, anthropologist

beach bumsun worshipper

foodie backpackerdrifter

anthropologist thrill seeker

jetsetter mass tourist

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culture buff naturist fashionista

party animal sports enthusiast

Make your top three of holiday destinations. What are your recommendations?

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3. Strange places…

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a) Speaking: Mark the places that you have already visited in your lifetime. Now talk to your neighbour about your trips:

Which continents have you visited?In how many different countries have you been?What’s the furthest you have ever travelled?How many different seas and oceans did you see?Did you go to the same place more than once? What’s the smallest/ largest country you have been to?Do you prefer a warmer or a colder climate? What’ s the highest place (mountains) you’ve ever been to?What’s the most awesome thing you saw? How many times did you fly? Do you prefer a hotel, a holiday house or camping?What’s the closest to the equator (evenaar) you’ve ever been?Where did you have your best/ worst holiday experience?How many different means of transportation did you use?…

b) Writing: Postcards from around the world

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Write a postcard from a location that you don’t mention. From clues in your text people have to be able to guess where you are. Write in a casual and original style. Use at least five adjectives!

c) Why not go to Paris? … in China…!!

Preliminary questions…:Could you guess why this famous Parisian neighbourhood was built in China?What are the Chinese famous for in the world? How does this apply to this particular example?Do you think Paris in China is a nice place to live in? Are the inhabitants happy there?Watching: Now watch the video about Paris in China:Uncovering China’s empty ghost cities: (first 3 minutes): https://youtu.be/GpnoPhY1f70

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Answer these questions:

From which famous French palace will you find statues in this town? VersaillesIs the Eiffel tower an exact copy of the one in Paris, France?No, it is smaller, only 1/3 of the actual height.Do people speak French in Paris, China? No, they speak Chinese.What is another word for “a copy” of something? A cloneFor which kind of event is Paris in China popular? Which people does it attract?Many Chinese couples come here to have wedding photos taken, the setting isvery romantic.How many people were supposed to live there? 10 000How many do actually live in the town? Only 1000What problems do inhabitants of the city have? The city did not take off as supposed. People have trouble with public transport, there aren’t enough shops and employment, shops have a hard time surviving.

d) Reading: The Strangest Inhabited Places: Answer the text questions.

Manshiyat Naser: Cairo

Manshiyat Naser is a city with zero unemployment, extremely cheap housing and a populace that mostly describe themselves as "happy." It's an entire society based solely around trash. Manshiyat Naser is located right next to Cairo, one of the largest cities on the continent, and Manshiyat Naser is where Cairo dumps all of its garbage. The citizens of Manshiyat Naser aren't just incredibly forgiving neighbors: They make their living off of the refuse. They collect it from Cairo, sort it and recover all the valuables for themselves -- from scrap metal to spare electronics. Though the city isn't exactly a utopia (it has no running water, inherent infrastructure or electricity), it's not just a bunch of hobos squatting, either: There are several permanent shops, streets and apartment buildings. That's right: It's an entire society based on dumpster diving.

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Why is this town special? It has zero unemployment, cheap housing and a happy poulation. The city is a gigantic pile of garbage. Inhabitants make a living by sorting out the garbage.Is this article is written in formal/informal language?..............................Can you find an example of that?. Underline!........................................This is an informative/ diverting story BothCan you translate “enkel en alleen”? SolelyWhat is squatting? Hurken, zich ergens vestigen.What are hobos? Is this a positive or a negative term? zwerversIs this text written in British or American English? Prove by underlining.

Dwarf City: China

China hasn't figured out a way to pirate political correctness yet, so being a minority there isn't exactly all break-dance competitions and inspirational after-school specials. It's mostly just good old cruelty and discrimination. Well, one man decided to give little people a place where they could join together to escape the bullying they experienced in normal society. By living their entire lives on display in the world's first live-in theme park.The founder of China's very own Dwarf City is a 44 year-old entrepreneur named Chen Mingjing. He claims that he created the park to help the little people of China, and the park has created hundreds of jobs for dwarfs that didn't exist before. That fact that the job involves dressing up in pink tutus and performing a slapstick version of Swan Lake

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doesn't seem to bother him.

Roughly 120 little people live in the city sized park in the mountains of Kunming, China. The one requirement for citizenship: You can't be taller than 4'3".

The citizens of Dwarf City live in houses shaped like mushrooms, dress up in fairy tale outfits and make their living off of souvenirs and tourism. While you might find this offensive, Dwarf City citizens find it slightly more offensive to starve to death. Minjing might be exploiting them, but the employees the New York Times spoke with seemed to be happy to finally be the ones reaping the benefits of the exploitation.Whether you agree with human rights groups that call it a callous gimmick, or the fun-sized employees who make it run, it does at least appear to have all of the trappings of a city, complete with a miniature police force, fire brigade and political system.

As much as we know we're going to hell for even thinking it, it's hard to get too mad about something that's just so damn adorable.

Why is his town special? The city is a theme-park that employs little people. The little people are inhabiting the town.Why is this not entirely politically correct? Is this surprising for China?It can be seen as discriminating towards little people. China is a country that has been on the news more than once for violating human rights.Find another word for “beledigend”. offensiveWhy do the inhabitants choose to live there? At least they can earn a living and they have a roof over their heads. It’s better than starving.Seek a translation for “ondernemer”. entrepreneurWhat is the correct term for “dwarfs”? little people

Kowloon Walled City: Hong Kong

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Located just outside of Hong Kong, Kowloon Walled City is where Chinese laws went to die. It all started toward the tail end of WWII, when China retook Kowloon from the Japanese. Thousands of squatters took advantage of the newfound Chinese protectorate and moved in with complete governmental protection.

Then, in 1948, the British went to clear the area, but failed so spectacularly that everybody, both English and Chinese alike, issued an official decree of "Screw that place." They agreed to let Kowloon be, but cut it off from all government services, which in communist China was pretty much everything: police, water, electricity, road maintenance, postal services and so on.They basically Thunderdomed a whole city, and then just walked away. And to everybody's mutual surprise, Kowloon absolutely thrived on the anarchy.

For 30 years, the city experienced explosive growth in terms of population and square footage: The city was only .01 square miles, yet housed roughly 33,000 people, making it the most densely populated area in world history. Unlicensed 12-story buildings shot up with no planning, untaxed businesses cropped up everywhere and a private legion of often unaccredited doctors tended to the populace. Kowloon citizens even jury-rigged up their own water and electric grids, and though it looked like Tim Burton was their city planner... it mostly worked. Since there was no law to speak of in Kowloon Walled City, opium bars could be found everywhere, prostitution rings operated openly, gambling dens were commonplace and anybody wanting to avoid the cops had a landlocked Tortuga to retreat to whenever they felt like it.In Kowloon Walled City, everything was handled by the individual, not the government, and astoundingly, the whole thing didn't implode on itself. But after 30 years, the Chinese finally got it in their heads that Crime Fortress might not be a good thing to have right next to Hong Kong, so they tore it down and built a park.

Why is his town special? Tere are no laws in this city. As an individual, you can do whatever you like and make your own laws.

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Why did the English and Chinese government decide to “Screw that place?” They could not control the place and the squatters that inhabited it so they decided to leave the city to its own. They cut it off from the government.What does “thrive on anarchy” mean? The chaos is what makes the city successful.How can you tell that there are no laws in Kowloon? There are unlicensed buildings, untaxed businesses, unaccredited doctors, … Citizens constructed their own water and electricity services. Drugs, prositution and gambling are all around. Who is Tim Burton? What is his occupation? Name one of his works. He is a director. His films are always a bit dark and surreal. He created Alice in Wonderland, Sweeney Todd, …Why is the city being compared to a Tim Burton creation?The city looks like a movie by Tim Burton. There is something gloomy and fantastical about the city.

4. Holiday experiences:

a) Watching: Introduction: Little Britain AbroadLou and Andy at the motel:

https://youtu.be/9uzU9EgYuUE?list=PLA-W4pA7rxvfszZcCX40NEfu_O1hn9Xij

Have you ever experienced rude people when you were on holiday?

b) Reading: Holiday Horror Stories

Introduction: Skydiving Grandma Talks About Her Scary Leap:

https://youtu.be/XWoOCmGq38w

In your own words, describe how the jump of this 80-year old woman developed:

A sky-diving pensioner who refused to get out of the plane was left hanging precariously from her instructor as a tandem dive went dangerously wrong.The 80-year-old desperately tried to cling onto the door after apparently deciding she no longer wanted to do the jump.As her harness came loose the woman, named Laverne, was left dangling from her instructor as she hurtled towards the ground at 125mph.

Find the picture that could accompany this newspaper article.For each story, make your own newspaper headline:

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A 3 B 2 C 1 D 4

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British youth worker Keith Brown was traveling to London from Ethiopia with his wife when he was detained by customs officers while connecting in Dubai. He was found to have cannabis on his person, was arrested on drug possession charges, and was sentenced to four years in prison. He had 0.003 grams (0.0001 oz) of cannabis stuck to the bottom of his shoe. This is about the size of a grain of sugar—not nearly enough to have any psychotropic effect. Fortunately for the 43-year-old father of three, he was pardoned and released early on in his sentence. The UAE is notoriously tough and unyielding on drug crime—a German national was imprisoned for carrying over-the-counter jet lag pills that are legal in Dubai, and a Swiss traveler was reportedly jailed for having poppy seeds on his clothing after eating a bread roll at Heathrow Airport.

Find words with these meanings:

opsluiten: to jail vasthouden: to detainvergeven: to pardon naar verluidt: reportedlyvrijlaten: to release de onderkant: the bottomberucht: notorious onverzettelijk: unyielding

What is a psychotropic effect, do you think? affecting mental activity, behavior, or perception, as a mood-altering drug.Why were the poppy seeds seen as dangerous? Poppy seeds are associated with drugs. They are used in opium and can create a false morphine effect.

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British tourist Rochelle Harris was on a flight back from a holiday in Peru in 2013 when she began experiencing a powerful headache and shooting pains in her face. She also began hearing strange scratching noises and had a discharge from her ear. On returning home, 27-year-old Harris paid a visit to a doctor. After initially blaming an ear infection, doctors soon discovered eight large maggots wriggling around inside Harris’s ear canal. She remembered walking through a swarm of flies while hiking on her vacation and one had been buzzing in her ear, but once she waved the fly away, she thought nothing more of it. The insect was a “new world screw-worm fly,” which generally lay their larvae in the wounds of warm-blooded animals. Once they hatched 24 hours later, the maggots chewed a 12-millimeter (half inch) hole in Rochelle Harris’s ear canal. The ordeal didn’t cause any permanent damage to Harris and, surprisingly, the incident made her less squeamish about bugs.

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Which symptoms did Rochelle suffer? Headaches, shotting pains in the face, scratching noises in her earHow did she catch the infection? She walked through a swarm of flies on a hiking trip.Find another word for these terms:

scared: squeamish insects: bugsto feel: to experience at first:initially

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Visiting Victoria Falls in southern Africa is a dream for many, but for 22-year-old Erin Langworthy, it turned into a nightmare. The Australian was bungee jumping off the Victoria Falls Bridge while visiting Zambia in 2012 when the cord snapped and she plunged 111 meters (364 ft) into the crocodile-infested Zambesi River below. She was swept down the swollen river, her feet still bound together by 10 meters (30 ft) of rope, and spent 40 minutes in the water, until she finally managed to grab onto some rocks and an employee of the bungee company pulled her onto the river bank.Langworthy was taken to Victoria Falls Clinic in Zimbabwe, but didn’t reach the clinic until five and a half hours after her jump. Though her lungs were partially collapsed and her body was covered in bruises, Langworthy didn’t suffer any serious injuries and returned home two weeks later. She had been the 106th person to jump off the bridge that day.

What’s the difference between “of” and “off”? of = van, bezittelijk, off= eraf, ervan, ervanaf, ver van.Why is the Zambesi river dangerous? It is inhabited by crocodiles.

gedeeltelijk: partially ingeklapt: collapsedverwondingen: injuries breken: to snap

From what verb is “bound” derived? bindWhat’s the difference between a bruise and a wound? Bruises are superficial injuries, a wound is a deeper injury.

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A 26-year-old German tourist went missing this year while attempting to walk almost halfway across Australia alone. He survived by eating flies. Daniel Dudzisz had been homeless for two years and had taken to walking long distances on his own. He had planned to walk 3,860 kilometers (2,400 mi) from New South Wales to Uluru, but found himself lost and stranded between two flooded banks of a river for 10 days. News of his disappearance didn’t alarm those who had encountered Dudzisz; opal miner Andrew Plax

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said Dudzisz was a uniquely tough traveler who had walked enormous distances on other continents, drinking water from troughs and puddles, and “could live off the smell of an oily rag.” He had no doubt the missing hiker would be found alive.Dudzisz, who is diabetic, fortunately had enough insulin with him. He turned to eating flies for nutrients when his small supply of cereal and baked beans ran out, and he was eventually rescued by a passing motorist. Dudzisz refused medical treatment and was determined to finish his walk, though he promised to stick to main roads and only walk during daylight hours.

Translate “stranded”. Vast komen te zittenWhich sound is the “oo” in “flooded”? /u:/ or / ʊ /? Find a synonym:

a try: an attempt saved: rescuedluckily: fortunately to meet: to encounter

How did Daniel find drinking water and food on his hikes? He drank from puddles (plassen) and troughs (troggen)How was he found? A passing motorist found him.What is a diabetic? Een persoon met suikerziekte.

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