Tour guide English

Author: You Qiaorong, Editor-in-Chief
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Publish Date: 2006-08-01
Features: "Tour Guide English" is centered around tour guides, introducing the essential business knowledge and tourism cultural knowledge they must possess, such as an overview of travel agencies, traditional Chinese festivals, and traditional Chinese customs. It designs various scenarios that tour guides may encounter during the entire process of receiving tourists, such as greeting visitors, arranging food, accommodation, transportation, sightseeing, shopping, and entertainment for them, handling emergencies, and bidding farewell to tourists. These contents form 12 units in the book, each including texts, dialogues, supplementary readings, and post-lesson exercises. The text section systematically introduces the tourism cultural knowledge that tour guides must have; the dialogues focus on typicality and practicality, comprehensively presenting scenario dialogues throughout the tour guide's reception process, with each unit including 3 sets of dialogues. The supplementary readings aim to further enhance students' English language skills and increase their tourism cultural knowledge. The design of the exercises emphasizes diversity, including dictation, scenario short-play performances, and English-Chinese translation, among others. The English-Chinese translation provides English materials on world-famous attractions and cultural customs, as well as Chinese materials on famous Chinese attractions, for students to translate, thereby enriching their tourism cultural knowledge. In this way, each unit presents tourism knowledge in three relatively concentrated areas: the text, supplementary reading materials, and some exercises. The textbook's content and difficulty are moderate, suitable for use over one semester, with a recommended weekly teaching time of 4–6 sessions.