Tourism English Listening and Speaking Changsha Social Work
College Tourism English
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Period 1 & 2 Unit 1 Touring Beijing (Period 1 & 2)
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Objectives By the end of this unit, Students will: This part
aims to help students to: 1. be familiar with important words and
expressions 2. to let students grasp some useful expressions about
Beijing City 3. to master main relative information about Beijing
Opera
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1. New words and useful expressions 2. The brief Introduction
of this unit 3. Dialogue A Tourism and Tourism Industry
Contents
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. 1. the Meridian Gate 2. the Five-Phoenix Towers 3.
benevolence, righteousness, rite intelligence, and fidelity 4. the
Hall of Supreme Harmony 5. the Hall of Complete Harmony 6. the Hall
of Preserving Harmony 7. the Palace of Heavenly Purity 8. the Hall
of Union 9. the Palace of Earthly Tranquility New words
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1 ) Tourism has been defined in various ways but may be thought
of as the relationships and phenomena arising out of the journeys
and temporary stays of people travel primarily for leisure or
recreational purposes. (P1) 2) On march 4,1993 the World Tourism
Organization recommended that Tourism comprises 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 purpose. Lead-in: Introduction
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The.Palace.Museum What strikes one first in a bird's -eye view
of Beijing proper is a vast tract of golden roofs flashing
brilliantly in the sun with purple walls occasionally emerging amid
them and a stretch of luxuriant tree leaves flanking on each side.
That is the former Imperial Palace, popularly known as the
Forbidden City, from which twenty- four emperors of the Ming and
Qing Dynasties ruled China for some 500 years--from1420 to 1911.
The Ming Emperor Yong Le, who usurped the throne from his nephew
and made Beijing the capital, ordered its construction, on which
approximately 10,000 artists and a million workmen toiled for 14
years from 1406 to 1420. At present, the Palace is an elaborate
museum that presents the largest and most complete ensemble of
traditional architecture complex and more than 900,000 pieces of
court treasures in all dynasties in China.
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Now the Forbidden City is no longer forbidding, but inviting. A
visit to the Palace Museum will enrich the visitors' knowledge of
history, economy, politics, arts as well as architecture in ancient
China.
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the Great Wall In the north of China there lies a 6 700-
kilometer-long (4 161-mile-long) ancient wall. Now well-known as
the Great Wall of China it starts at the Jiayuguan Pass of Gansu
Province in the west and ends at the Shanhaiguan Pass of Hebei
Province in the east. As one of the Eight Wonders in the world the
Great Wall of China has become the symbol of the Chinese nation and
its culture.
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In addition to the above-mentioned stories about the
construction of the Great Wall there are also plenty of stories
about current scenic spots. A famous one is the legend of the
Beacon Tower. This story happened during the Western Zhou Dynasty
(11th century BC-711 BC). King You had a queen named Bao Si who was
very pretty. King You liked her very much however Bao Si never
smiled. An official gave a suggestion that setting the beacon tower
on fire would frighten the Kings subjects and might make the queen
smile. King You liked the idea.
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The subjects were fooled and Bao Si smiled at the sight of the
chaos. Later enemies invaded Western Zhou King You set the beacon
tower on fire to ask for help. No subjects came to help because
they had been fooled once before. Thus King Zhou was killed by the
enemy and Western Zhou came to an end.
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Dialogue A Tourism and Tourism Industry 1.people usually regard
tourism as an umbrella concept. 2.This is because what constitutes
a tourists and the tourism industry is still a matter of debate.
what constitutes a tourist and the tourism industry what
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Practice Give a brief introduction of the Museum Palace
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Homework Translation: Tourism can be classified in different
ways, such as recreational tour, cultural tour, business tour,
ethnic tour etc according to the purposes; Camping tour, adventure
tour, bicycle tour, hike tourism etc according to the ways of
transportation; International tourism, domestic tourism according
to the range of tour; Individual tour, group tour, package tour etc
according to the forms of organizing group.
