Oral English Tourism Week 2 ppt.ppt

Anthony (Tony) Friend
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Introducing Tourism – Answers 1
Tourism is: the activities of persons traveling to and staying in places outside their usual environment for not more than one consecutive year for leisure, business, and other purposes.
Different types of tourism: domestic, inbound and outbound.
Impact of Tourism: economic, environmental and socio-cultural.
Vocabulary
Safari park, festival, amusement park, historic building, place of natural beauty.
10 mins.
In pairs.
Write a sentence with each of these vocabulary words.
Which of these would be of most interest to your partner and why?
Useful Expressions
Is everybody on the bus?
Shall we go now?
Let me introduce me and my team to you first.
We will do out best to make your trip more enjoyable and memorable.
It’s one of the best four-star hotels in the city.
I hope you will enjoy your stay here.
Next, I’d like to introduce something about this city.
There are many famous scenic spots and historical sites in Beijing.
You might like to consider a good rest first.
Let’s get off and go to the reception desk.
Introducing China: A Country with an Ancient Civilisation
The major theme of this course is oral English for tourism and is thus directed towards you, as future tour guides, showing foreigners, like me, around China.
Vocabulary: Ancient; civilisation; political
In pairs.
10 mins.
What do foreigners, generally, already know about China?
Why is it important that you do pletely contradict foreigners pre-conceived notions of China?
How can you, in a sensitive way, introduce China to a foreigner?
Hotels
Vocabulary: reserve; hotel; inn; star-hotel; single, double deluxe; bath; shower.
In pairs.
10 mins.
What is the difference between a: single; double deluxe; presidential room?
How do 1*; 3*; 5*; or 7*hotels vary? What can I expect from each?
My story – One time in Hangzhou, my wife and I stupidly booked a hotel room off of one of the old women outside the railway station. It was late, we were