观光农业及生态旅游是以农村、农业、农民为载体的旅游活动，是旅游业的分支。本教材根据涉外导游工作对英语口语的需求而编写。《观光农业旅游英语》由十个单元组成，涉及九个话题：观光农业及生态旅游介绍、果园、菜园、酒庄、农家饭、森林游、少数民族村寨游、奶牛场以及教育农园。每个单元包括话题引入、听读理解、情景对话与角色扮演、练习和扩展阅读5个部分。内容的编排上既有场景介绍，又有游客参与体验农活的环节设计，以及学生充当地陪的角色练习。《观光农业旅游英语》重在训练学生“说”英语的能力，同时扩大相关背景知识。书后附有课文录音光盘。
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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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