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Reading ‘Jo Work with a partner. Look at the photo below and talk about what you can see. Think! Then compare ideas with your class. = Why do you think tourist graffiti is a crime in most countries now? ‘Wb Read the title of the article. What do you think ‘the text is about? Read the article and check your answer in 1b. -_" Beene eed 5 Match the underlined words in the article with these definitions. 2 Answer the questions with information from the piecr mors. article. 1. anillegal ectivity 4. Where was Ding Jinhao's graffiti? 4 religious building Why was it easy to find Ding Jinhao? 2 E 3. an important or interesting historical building 3 Whats the attitude today to tourist graffiti in Egypt? . 5 6 7 have a good time Ding Jinhao's message is @ new example of tourist Biss ecunent ng csom oan fol nel lgrafiti. In the text, what isthe first example? 2 search to find something or someone important Who was Giovehni Belzoni? polite, reasonable, good & Whats there at the top of the Great Pyramid a why? 6 SSBKNG What about you? 7. What is the Chinese National Tourist 1. What do you think about Ding Jinhao’s actions? ‘Administration's message to tourists? 2. Whats your opinion of graft, either tourist graft orstreet graffiti? TOURIST GRAFFITI Anew problem? A Chinese tourist on holiday in Egypt was shocked to see graffiti in Chinese on a 3,500-year-old monument in Luxor. A photo of the graffiti was soon on his Some examples of ours graft log on the Internet. People in China Sin't believe it! It says: "Hadnakhie ... came to make an excursion and amuse himself on the west ofthe Memphis, together with his brother, Panakhti ey were angry and there was a big hunt to find the person responsible. They could find him “SSsly because the message wasn't very imaginative Be clever. It was basically “Ding Jinhao was here’ ‘Test was enough for Internet users to find this Sericular Ding Jinhao, a teenager in Nanjing. His SPerents were quick to tell a local newspaper that their See was very sorry for his actions Later, in the second half of the 19 century, Europeans could travel ‘Denes eraffiti was a terrible idea, tis a serious erime — aFOUnd the world thanks to the fist package holidays, In those era histsicraccairent in Fay days, tourists could climb to the top of the Great Pyramid. Soon Ros can goto prison fora year for doing it. But in the there was graft in just about every language up there. =, people could write on monuments and Luckily, it wasn't difficult to make Ding Jinhao’s graffiti disappear. Se-one was angry about it. At Giza there is But China's National Tourism Administration is right to advise all Sezample of grafiti on a temple wall from 1244BC. tourists to actin a civilised way, In Roman times, it was normal to write messages on ancient ‘monuments, to become part of the monument forever. One of the first Egyptologists, the Italian, Giovanni Belzoni, was the first ‘modern man to enter the pyramid of Khafre. Inside the pyramid {today you can read his text celebrating the discovery, with his ‘name and the date. Read the sentences and complete the table. 1 Bel Italian. 2k difficult. 3. They were on an excursion. 4 His parent ‘appy. 5 ita good idea? No, it | was in Egypt in 2013. He/She/l They Yo He/She/it Yo They Egypt ir youlwe/they in Egypt in 2 Yes, V/he/she/it No, Uhe/she/it Ye No, we/you/they Complete the dialogue with the correct past forms of to be. Hey! Where: you last week? Yo at basketball club. Why not? inthe US! My ad there on New York? Yes, we farm there? No, it Ie really cold! Flipped classroom: watch the grammar Look at the list of top 10 tourist destinations. Complete the sentences below with was, wasn't, were, weren't. 1 In 2013, Paris the number one tourist destination in the word, 2 One destination in the top ten inthe UK. 3. Prague number ten in the list. 4. Madrid and Milan in the top ten. 5. One of the top ten destinations in North ‘America or Europe & Three of the top ton tourist destinations in aly Berlin in the top ten 8 Two of the top ten destinations ‘American Write questions using the past of to be. 1 Where/you/this mornit st 6 am? Where/your parents/at 10 pm last night? Where/your family/last July? \Where/your best friend/yesterda \Where/you/in 2 KING Work with a partner. Ask and answer the questions 4. Then tell the class two of your partner's answers. | Whe gat 6 am? v

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