B. Keywords.
footpath, fresco, floor, stonework, tree.
Vocabulary.
trench, erode, Lake District, Sistine Chapel. Notre Dame, Alpine.
You're going to hear an extract from the novel Paradise News by David Lodge. Listen carefully and complete the following chart.
The footpaths in the Lake District have become trenches.
The frescoes in the Sistine Chapel are being damaged by the breath and body heat of spectators. 180 people enter Notre Dame every minute.
Their feet are eroding the floor, and buses that bring them there are rotting the stonework with exhausted fumes.
Pollution from cars queuing to get to the Alpine resorts is killing the trees and causing landslides.
In 1987, they had to close Venice one day because it was too full.
In 1963, 44 people went down the Colorado River on a raft, now there are thousand trips a day.
