3) After she had passed several months in the Tower,

ACTIVITY 1: CHUNKING

INTO CONSTITUENTS

(partly adapted from exercises

2.1 and 2.2 in Thompson 2014: 26-27)

The following clauses 10 have been divided into constituents by means of

slashes (//). Choose the best chunking among the two given in the options. Use

semantic criteria rather than merely syntactic ones to make your choice.

1) Elizabeth was the last sovereign of the house of Tudor.

6) It serves as a global forum for tourism policy

issues and a practical source of tourism know-how.

Task 5 – Writing a short tourism information text

Write a short section for a tourist leaflet about Venice based on the following pieces of information from the "At a Glance" section of Rick

Steves' website:

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St.

Mark's Square

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St.

Mark's Basilica Cathedral

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Rialto

Bridge

 Use syntactic structures and lexis that are appropriate for a promotional text.

Task 3.2 – Analysis

and comparison of two or more extracts from tourism and/or travelling texts

Please describe the register (Field, Tenor and Mode) of

the following extracts and compare them.

EXTRACT 1

The arrival of COVID-19 has been viewed as a watershed moment. In terms

of tourism, the unthinkable has happened. While previously the industry was

grappling with concerns of overtourism, we suddenly have been catapulted into a

collapse of the entire sector. This is because the tourism, hospitality and

events sectors have been crippled by government efforts to curtail and control

the pandemic. Borders have been shut, travel has been banned, social activities

have been curtailed, and people have been told to stay in their homes. However,

it is predictable that industries such as tourism will be keen to get back to

business as usual and are seeking shares of government stimulus packages and

interventions.

EXTRACT 2

Above the Atrium, and around the whole western arm of the inner church,

runs an outer gallery. On this gallery, over the Main Portal of the outer and

lower facade, stand Bronze Horses, forming a four magnificent quadriga, or team

of four, for a chariot. What makes these horses so important is the fact that

they help fix the date of various portions of the church. They are believed by

some antiquaries to be Greek works of the school of Lysippus, but others hold

that they are of Roman origin.

Task 4 – Open question

Discuss the concept of genre

with specific reference to tourism

and travelling writing.