Listening Exercise: Tourism in Antarctica

Tourism in Antarctica

There is no place on earth like Antarctic, the 7th continent, one of the most untouched places on our wonderful planet. However, a growing tourism industry and a trend toward adventure tourism means that more and more tourists are visiting Antarctica (more than 40,000 per year compared to just 200 visitors in 1969), which is causing pollution problems and physical disturbances. 

One of the main points against tourists visiting Antarctica is that it has a very fragile ecosystem, and too many people will disrupt the delicate balance it has. And if larger ships start going there, tourist numbers will only increase.

In this listening exercise, we are going to listen to an excerpt from a comedy TV show, in which the host raises his concerns about the increasing number of tourists visiting Antarctica. He says that the authorities are going to have to come up with a very effective Anti-Tourism campaign, and offers his own (humorous) version of one for them. If you want to see impressive snow-scene, he says, you should go to Alaska and simply tell your friends that you went to Antarctica. They’ll never know the difference!

Listening Exercise:

Fill the blanks, and write your answers in the comments below. We will then reply with the answers!

Questions:

1. Tourists are ________ the Antarctic biodiversity with pollution and physical disturbances

2. … scientists say even walking on moss beds will leave footprints that could ______ for centuries.

3. Some of the freshest water you’ll probably ever taste, because it _____ ____ 400,000 years.

4. Tragically the antarctic ice shelf is rapidly diminishing, now if you’ll ______ _____….

5. I know we’re not ________  ___ go to Antarctica, but there are free penguins and snow cones there!

6. An __________ land of incredible ice formations that you simply have to see

7. It’s like you’re actually here, which, _________, you’re not!

8. Wanna impress your friends by going some place exotic? _____ ______ Belgium!

9. Hey guess which of these is Alaska? You don’t know, do you? It’s _______ ____ ______.

10. We don’t care where in the world you go, just ______ ______ as it’s in this general area.

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