syria
Tourist guide from Palmyra
Hussein from Palmyra talks about tourism and globalization.
Vocabulary
| live | proud/pride | desert |
| dessert | the most | beautiful |
| city | whole | Mediterranean |
| tour | guide | tourism |
| season | seasonal | high |
| low | something | like (2) |
| something like | month | corruption (2) |
| morals | past | in the past |
| before | make | live |
| make their living | used to | pension |
| globalization | now | start |
| fire (2) | part | part of |
| difficult | impose | belief |
| one way (2) | think (2) | kind (2) |
| so | here | variety |
| society | color | colorful (2) |
| eliminate | all | other |
| culture | idea | ideal |
| ideals | that’s why | happy |
| faith (2) | place | life |
| social life | town | also |
| quite | relax | harmony/harmonious |
| could be | in fact | because |
| practice | much | forget |
| lots of | learn | what I have learned |
Video
Questions
1. Who is this person?
2. What is his profession or occupation?
3. How much does he earn? It is the same throughout the year. Yes or no?
4. What does he say about globalization?
5. Does he like the past or the present better?
6. What makes him happy?
7. What country would he like to visit? Why?
8. Name ten things and seven activities from the video.
A. Do you live in Syria? Are you from Syria? Have you been to Syria?
B. Have you met people from Syria? Who were they? Were they students, tourists, business people?
C. Describe the climate and geography of Syria.
D. Describe the economy of Syria. What does it import and export?
E. Does Syria have any difficulties or challenges?
F. What is Syrian food like? Describe the cuisine of Syria.
G. What are some tourist attractions (cultural, historic, natural)?
H. What do you associate with Syria? What comes to mind when you think of Syria?
