B1 LEVEL

Social Media Tourism

B1 Worksheet

Vocabulary

  1. Scroll through
    To move up or down on a screen to look at posts, messages, or pictures.

  2. Intrusive
    Making someone feel uncomfortable by getting too close or involved in their personal space.

  3. Compelled
    Feeling like you have to do something, even if you don’t want to.

  4. Privacy
    The right to keep your personal life and space free from other people.

  5. Overtourism
    When too many people visit a place and it causes problems for the area or the people who live there.

  6. Influencer
    A person on social media who has many followers and can affect what people buy or do.

  7. Rescue
    To help someone out of danger.

  8. Selfie
    A photo you take of yourself, often with a phone or camera.

  9. Discover
    To find or learn about something for the first time.

  10. Attract
    To make people want to go somewhere or do something.

Grammar Points

  1. Past Simple
    Talk about completed past actions (e.g., “I saw it on Instagram.”)

  2. Present Perfect
    Actions at an unspecified past time or with present relevance (e.g., “I’ve had many visitors.”)

  3. Passive Voice
    Focus on the action, not who does it (e.g., “It was posted online.”)

  4. First Conditional
    Real future possibilities (e.g., “If too many people visit, it causes problems.”)

  5. Modal Verbs (should, must, could)
    Advice or criticism (e.g., “They should plan carefully.”)

  6. Relative Clauses
    Extra information about people or things (e.g., “People who follow me on Instagram.”)

Activities

Activity 1
Relative Clauses

Instructions
Complete the sentences using the correct relative pronoun (who, which, that). Use who when you talk about people and use which or that when you talk about things.

1. An influencer is a person ________ has many followers on social media.

2. Social media posts ________ show beautiful places attract many visitors.

3. People ________ visit without planning carefully may need help from the rescue team.

4. The pictures________ people share online often show beautiful places.

Activity 2
Write a Review

Instructions
Write a short review of a place you discovered online. Use vocabulary from the lesson and try to include relative clauses and modal verbs if possible. Write 5–7 sentences.

Include in your review:

  1. What the place looks like

  2. Why you want to visit it

  3. How you found it (e.g., Instagram, TikTok)

  4. Any advice for someone visiting

Activity 3
True or False

Instructions
Read the statements below and write True or False. If the statement is false, correct it.

  1. Castle Combe is a very busy village because of social media.

  2. Overtourism means that not enough people visit a place.

  3. An influencer helped a business get more bookings by posting online.

  4. The rescue team says that most rescue calls happen because people plan carefully.

  5. Some tourists take selfies in dangerous places.

  6. Social media never changes the places people visit.

Questions

  1. What is the name of the village that became busy because of social media?

  2. What does the rescue team say is the reason for many emergency calls?

  3. Do you think social media has a positive or negative effect on tourism? Why?