C) Summarize in one paragraph the essentials of the extract.

d) Confirm or refute:

1. ...tourism ... is a conventionalizing , a codification , of adventure and exploration... 2. How can there be any adventure, any explora­tion, if you let... a travel bureau — arrange устраивать everything beforehand? 3. It isn't seeing new and beautiful things which matters, it's seeing them for yourself. 4. Three hundred miles on foot in three weeks give you infinitely more sense of travel, ... than thirty thousand miles of mechanical transport .

e) Tell the class your opinion about tourism. Do you agree with Aldington's "horror of tourism"? Dwell both on the advantages and drawbacks of organized travel.

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2. a) The author of the article that follows seems to share Aldington's opinion at least in one point: