WORLD TOURISM

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• Mt. Everest

• The Alps

• Nevado del Ruiz

• Etna

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• Paris

• The Eiffel Tower

• London

• Rome

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• Paris

• New York City

• London

• The Eiffel Tower

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• Paris

• Ayers Rock (Uluru)

• London

• Rome

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• Venezuela

• Venice

• Bogota

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• London (UK)

• Venice (Italy)

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It’s incredible, burning, often over 40

degrees Celsius in the summer months. Part of the United

Arab Emirates (UAE), Dubai is a city in the middle of the

desert. Where the pavement ends, sand begins and it

stretches for kilometres and kilometres into the distance.

Despite this harsh climate, the people of Dubai have

turned their city into one of the world’s most popular

tourist resorts.

A good title for this paragraph could be:

• Extreme hot in Dubai

• Wealth in the desert

• Pavement vs. Sand

• All for nothing

On the one hand, we want to make pleasant places for people to live and exciting locations for tourists to enjoy. This creates jobs for people where there is no other work. On the other hand, development often equals destruction and the environment suffers as a result.

A good title for this paragraph could be:

• Advantages and disadvantages in tourism.

• Problems in the modern world.

• Huge construction projects.

• Environmental problems.

There are five-star hotels that you need special permission to visit. If you want to buy souvenirs, you can buy gold jewellery from a vending machine. The shopping malls are enormous palaces with every luxury product you could think of.

A good title for this paragraph could be:

• Huge construction projects

• Wealth is everywhere

• The hotel sector in Dubai

• Shopping in Dubai

A vending machine is:

• A coin-operated machine for selling small articles.

• A small inexpensive article given as a reminder of a place one has visited.

• A material object or service that brings physical comfort.

• Objects that are worn for personal adornment such as bracelets, rings, necklaces.