Unit 3 A Taste of Travel
Places of Interest
Do you know the Quick Facts and Figures of China Tourism Industry?
Our country hosted 131 million foreign tourists in 2007.
Tourists from other Asian countries took up 61.5 percent of all international tourists.
China's tourism income reached $160 billion in 2007, up 22.6 percent year-on-year.
Beijing
Shanghai
Guilin
Lhasa
Tian’anmen Square
The Forbidden City
The Temple of Heaven
The Summer Palace
Bird’s Nest
Water Cube
The Great Wall
Name
Shape
Location
Length/Size
Brief history
Open time
Scan paragraph one and try to fill in the table:
the Great Wall
twists and turns along the top of mountain chains
in northern China
more than 4,000 kilometers long
began in the fifth century BC.
took shape in the third century BC.
at 6.30a.m and closes at 7p.m
The basic elements of
introducing
a place of interest
Beijing
Shanghai
Guilin
Lhasa
The Bund
Oriental Pearl TV Tower
Jinmao Tower
Yuyuan
zhiye
Yu Garden
Shanghai Grand Theatre
The Shanghai Museum
Match the following
1.sculpture 2.furniture gallery 3.seal
4.bronze ware 5.Chinese painting 6.calligraphy
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4
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