HOL-CHolidaying, Travel and the Arts

Writing Travel: Art Shows, Festivals and Space Tourism Debates

Idée directrice

Module 1 links holidaying with art shows and even space tourism: festivals, venues, booking seats, and the debate about expensive space trips for the well-to-do. Writing tasks set a clear addressee and ask for reasoned opinion, not a list of rocket names.

Signature de reconnaissance — l'énoncé se trahit ainsi

art show

space tourism

holiday

travel

book

festival

Sujet principal

Writing: recommend a cultural trip or discuss space tourism

1 questionCorrigé masqué

Writing — one paragraph (12–15 lines). Choose ONE task.

Task A — Cultural holiday. Your Irish penfriend is visiting Tunisia for one week. Recommend a short travel plan that mixes tourism and the arts: one city or region, one museum or show to book, and one free outdoor activity. Explain why this trip suits a first visit.

Task B — Space tourism opinion. Some billionaires buy tickets for space tourism while many families cannot afford an ordinary vacation. Write a short opinion paragraph for your school magazine: give one argument for space travel as adventure/science and two arguments against (cost, risk, fairness), then state your view.

Use holiday/travel vocabulary and at least three linkers. State the addressee clearly at the start.

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Model — Task A

Dear Aoife, for your first holiday in Tunisia I suggest a short trip based in Tunis with one day in Sidi Bou Said. Firstly, you can book a guided visit to the Bardo Museum to see mosaics that explain our history better than any postcard. Moreover, in the evening you might attend a small music performance or art show if a festival is on the calendar. In addition, a free walk along the Sidi Bou Said cliffs gives you tourism without high costs and lovely sightseeing photos. This plan mixes culture and rest, so your travel week will feel full but not exhausting.

Model — Task B

Space tourism fascinates many students, yet it raises hard questions for society. On the one hand, a trip beyond Earth can support scientific research and satisfy the human desire for adventure. On the other hand, tickets remain exorbitant, so only the well-to-do enjoy the experience while ordinary families struggle to pay for a simple seaside vacation. Moreover, flights are still risky, and money spent on rockets could improve education or health on our planet. Therefore, I respect scientific curiosity, but I cannot defend space tourism as a fair form of holidaying today.

Rewards: clear choice of task; concrete details; unit words (holiday, travel, trip, tourism, vacation).
Trap for B: Do not drift into pure technology vocabulary (digital apps, robots) without travel/tourism words — this unit is holidaying and travel.

Exercices d'entraînement — une nuance à la fois

Entraînement 01 / 02

Language: art shows during a trip

1 questionCorrigé masqué

Language. Gap-fill (tourism + arts). One extra word.

`book · venue · festival · tourist · travel · performance`

During the summer (1) __________, many visitors (2) __________ seats for an evening (3) __________. The main (4) __________ is a renovated theatre in the city centre. A careful (5) __________ reads the leaflet before choosing a show, because some tickets are costly.

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Answers: (1) festival · (2) book · (3) performance · (4) venue · (5) tourist · (extra: travel)

How to find them: Summer festival is the event frame. Visitors book seats. An evening performance is the show itself. The main venue is the renovated theatre. A careful tourist reads the leaflet before paying. Travel is the general industry word and fits no blank tightly.

Trap: Venue is the place, not the ticket. Keep arts vocabulary inside a trip so the unit stays holidaying/travel.

Entraînement 02 / 02

Reading: space tourism — who can travel?

3 questionsCorrigé masqué

Reading.

Space tourism is no longer pure science fiction. A few companies sell tickets for short suborbital flights, and wealthy customers dream of looking at Earth from a spaceship window. Supporters say such travel extends human knowledge and may one day create new jobs in the tourism industry. Critics answer that prices are exorbitant: only the well-to-do can afford a seat, while millions of children never take an ordinary holiday plane trip. They also underline the danger of experimental rockets and the gap between brochure promises and real safety.

For bac students, the debate is useful practice: can you separate adventure from fairness when you discuss a new form of vacation?

Questions

True or false? The text says space tickets are cheap enough for most families. Justify.
Give one argument of supporters and one argument of critics.
Which ordinary tourism word in the last sentence links space flights to classic holidays?

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1. F — prices are exorbitant; only the well-to-do can afford a seat.
2. For: extends knowledge / may create jobs in tourism. Against: cost/unfairness; danger of rockets; brochure vs safety (any clear pair).
3. vacation (also accept holiday if the learner quotes the critics’ ordinary holiday plane trip).

Method: Opinion texts need both camps. Do not invent “robots colonise Mars” if it is not written.

Méthode / Automatismes

If you pick Task A, name places and one booking action. If you pick Task B, keep the fairness contrast between luxury space trips and ordinary holidays.

Pièges classiques

Writing a general essay on “technology” without travel, holiday or tourism will fail the unit congruence check and miss the module focus.