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前言

Unit 1 An Introduction to Agritourism and Ecotourism

 Part 1 Warming-up

 Part 2 Topic listening and reading: A Brief Introduction to Agritourism and Ecotourism

 Part 3 Learning how to communicate with people: Dialogue Role-play:In a tour guide training class

 Part 4 Building up your language stock: Translation exercises

 Part 5 Supplements for reference:

5.1 What makes a successful guide?

5.2 Reading: Passage A:Agritourism in the World

 Passage B: Fashionable Tourism

Unit 2 Visiting the Orchard

 Part 1 Warming-up

 Part 2 Topic listening and reading= The Pick-Your-Own Orchard

 Part 3 Learning how to communicate with people. Dialogue Role-play:In the Orchard

 Part 4 Building up your language stock: Translation exercises

 Part 5 Supplements for reference:

Reading: Passage A: Fruit Trees

Passage B: Why Holding Fruit on Trees May Limit Next Year's Crop

Unit 3 In the Kitchen Garden

 Part 1 Warming-up

 Part 2 Topic listening and reading: An Introduction to a Kitchen Garden

 Part 3 Learning how to communicate with people: Dialogue Role-play: In a vegetable garden

 Part 4 Building up your language stock: Translation exercises

 Part 5 Supplements for reference:

Reading: Passage A: The Countryside

Passage B: Let Us Plant Lettuce

Unit 4 Visiting the Chateau (1)

 Part 1 Warming-up

 Part 2 Topic listening and reading: Welcome to Chateau AFIP

 Part 3 Learning how to communicate with people: Dialogue Role-play: In a chateau

 Part 4 Building up your language stock: Translation exercises

 Part 5 Supplements for reference:

Reading: Passage A: A Brief Introduction to the World Famous Wine

Passage B: New Understanding of How Plants Use Water

Unit 5 Visiting the Chateau (2)

 Part 1 Warming-up

 Part 2 Topic listening and reading: The Pairing of Wine and Food

 Part 3 Learning how to communicate with people: Dialogue Role-play:At the Wine House

 Part 4 Building up your language stock: Translation exercises

 Part 5 Supplements for reference:

Reading: Passage A: Wine Appreciation ABC

Passage B: Why Grafting Still Fits Nicely into Agriculture

Unit 6 In the Farm Food Restaurant

 Part 1 Warming-up

 Part 2 Topic listening and reading: Farm Food

 Part 3 Learning how to communicate with people:Dialogue Role-play: In a farm food restaurant

 Part 4 Building up your language stock: Translation exercises

 Part 5 Supplements for reference:

Reading: Passage A: Chinese Food

Passage B: Welcome to the Vegetable Garden!

Unit 7 Forest Recreation

 Part 1 Warming-up

 Part 2 Topic listening and reading: A Brief Introduction to

 Forest Recreation

 Part 3 Learning how to communicate with people:

 Dialogue Role-play: In the lounge of a hotel

 Part 4 Building up your language stock: Translation exercises

 Part 5 Supplements for reference:

Reading: Passage A: Forests

Passage B: Deforestation Decreased Over the Past 10 Years 

Unit 8 Visiting Ethnic Minority Village

 Part 1 Warming-up

 Part 2 Topic listening and reading: The Chinese Ethnic Minorities

 Part 3 Learning how to communicate with people:Dialogue Role-play: On the bus to a Miao ethnic village

 Part 4 Building up your language stock: Translation exercises

 Part 5 Supplements for reference.

Reading: Passage A: Instructions for Tourists in Ethnic Minority Areas

Passage B:China's Five Ethnic Minority Autonomous Regions

Unit 9 Visiting the Diary Farm

 Part 1 Warming-up

 Part 2 Topic listening and reading: Diary Farm

 Part 3 Learning how to communicate with people:Dialogue Role-play: On a diary farm

 Part 4 Building up your language stock: Translation exercises

 Part 5 Supplements for reference:

Reading: Passage A: Milking by Machines

Passage B: New Alliance to Study Greenhouse Gases in Agriculture

Unit 10 Visiting the Educational Farm

 Part 1 Warming-up

 Part 2 Topic listening and reading: An Introduction to an

 Educational Farm

 Part 3 Learning how to communicate with people:Dialogue Role-play: On an educational farm

 Part 4 Building up your language stock: Translation exercises

 Part 5 Supplements for reference.

Reading: Passage A: Soilless Cultivation

Passage B: Understanding Farm Animals Begins with a Name

Keys to the exercises

 Unit 1 Introduction to Agritourism and Ecotourism

 Unit 2 Visiting the Orchard

 Unit 3 In the Kitchen Garden

 Unit 4 Visiting the Chateau(1)

 Unit 5 Visiting the Chatean(2)

 Unit 6 In the Farm Food Restaurant

 Unit 7 Forest Recreation

 Unit 8 Visiting the Ethnic Minority Village

 Unit 9 Visiting the Diary Farm

 Unit 10 Visiting the Educational Farm

Glossary 1 (按课文顺序)

Glossary 2 (总词汇表)

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