Vocabularies

Unit 3 “A Hotel with a Difference”

Websites Reference

Green Magic Tree House, India http://www.palmlandtours.net/kerala/treehouse/treehouse.htm

The Ice Hotel

http://www.scantours.com/ice_hotel.htm

Jules Underwater Lodge in Florida

    http://www.elitechoice.org/2007/11/30/underwater-lodge-living-inside-aquarium/

Burj Al Arab, Dubai

http://www.burj-al-arab.com/

Vocabularies

A bridge helps you to cross from one high place to another.

A plantation is an estate where crops are grown on a large scale, usually in a tropical country. Typical collocations are tea/coffee/banana/rubber plantation.

A reindeer is a large mammal that lives in the Arctic and North America, where it also called caribou.

amazing: surprising

An architect is a person who designs buildings.

balloon: a big bag that is filled with air so that it can fly

butler: a person who looks after guests in a hotel

chauffeur: a person who drives a car for you

court: a place where you play ball games like tennis or squash

curtains: pieces of cloth that you move to cover a window

impressive: exciting

Jungle: an area with a lot of trees in a hot country

limousine: a long and very luxurious car

Lodge has various meanings. It can mean a small house used for a seasonal activity, like hunting. It is often used, as in the text, as part of the name of a large house or hotel.

sail: the part of a ship that the wind catches to push it along

Scuba diving (水肺潛水) is the activity of swimming underwater using special breathing equipment. The equipment consists of cylinders of air which you carry on your back and which are connected to your mouth by rubber tubes.

sight: something that you see