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Below is a section of a candidate answ er from an IELTS essay task (W riting Task 2).
Com plete the spaces w ith the co rrect tenses.
"Discuss the positive and negative effects of to u ris m on people and the en viro n m en t.”
Regarding the environm ent, tourism (1 )___________ (
improve) people's understanding of
endangered species. P rior to mass tourism , many societies (2 )___________ (
disregard}
the natural life around them . However, due to to u rism many countries (3 )___________
[invest] in conservation program m es. Ecotourism is now a very popular and a lot of to u rists
(4 )____________
[visit] Africa, Asia and South Am erica and (5 )____________
[partake] in
projects which care fo r the environm ent. Although there are positive points, tourism
(6 ) __________ (a/so
have] a large num ber of negative effects on the environm ent. These
(7 ) __________ (
include] an increase in a ir pollution from plane travel, rubbish from
to u rists in parks and on beaches and the destruction of many of the w orld 's rain forests.
There are advantages and disadvantages fo r people too. During the 1990s in many
