Web Vocabulary & Questions

The internet will only continue to be used more and more in the future. If you plan on having a career in tourism, or any career at all, it is not only important to be able to speak some English, but to familiarize yourself with the language used when discussing websites and web marketing. This lesson aims to help you discuss websites better. All vocabulary you are expected to know is in green.

BASICS

Web Browser – (navigateur) There are four common browsers, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, & Apple Safari.

The Web Browser is a software with a window composed of a Title Bar, Address Bar (Lien), Search Bar (Recherer), Favorites (Favoris), Tool Bars (bar des utils), a Scroll Bar (défilement de dialogue) and RSS Feeds (flux). Can you locate these in your browser? There is also, the Back (retour) and Forward (suivant) buttons, Refresh/ Reload (actualiser), Stop (arrêter), and Home (acceuil) buttons. Click that arrow and a menu will drop down, this is a drop-down menu, which there are many kinds. Hit the stop button to stop the process of loading a web page.

The link provided here is an in-depth look at the parts and pieces of a browser. It is a good reference for more English regarding surfing the web.

WEB LANGUAGES

Before building a website, you have to have content that you want to publish to the internet. What you read, look at, or watch on the site is known as the main content. It is the subject matter of the website. You can have some websites that are concerned with a variety of content, and it is usually separated and organized within the navigation or menus.

There is usually a Main Header – or usually the top of the site, that has the name of the website inside it. For example, Google has one of the most famous headers which doubles as its logo (even if it is freauently changing on certain days). Also, even though it appears as though it is floating, it is still a header. After that you will sometimes have a search bar, like with Google or Youtube, but with other sites you will have a Main Navigation, Menu or Links, and sometimes Secondary Navigation, Menu or Links. At the bottom of most pages you will also find a footer, which acts as an index and another set of navigational links for the site.

When in the process of designing a cite, there are four main things that are considered. General Layout, Colors, Text Hierarchy (how big is each title, or the text you read, or the text of links and buttons), and Imagery – background images, moving or static, photographs or drawings.

Websites are like houses. You can build them out of different Web Languages, for example: HTML, XHTML, CSS, Java, Flash, XML, jQuery, PHP, Sql, and some others. Each language works differently to achieve different things. All websites use the basic HTML language. Once you have the basic building materials, you can construct many different parts of the website, and not every website has exactly the same things.

MORE...

After the basic and standard website, there are many things you can add to a website for advertising purposes. A basic type of advertising is banner ads, which can appear horizontally or vertically anywhere in the site. Another type is known as rich media. It is advertising such as videos or moving parts which react to the user’s cursor or mouse movements.

Multimedia campaigns or cross-media campaigns are when advertising firms decide to use more than one area of the web for the campaign, or choose to incoporate printed ads, like in magazines. This includes launching a website, with a Youtube video, and a corresponding Facebook page, and even Twitter pages. Frequently, firms will release one of the pieces of the campaign in advance of the others in order to build hype, or excitement leading up to the launch of the full (finished, complete) campaign.

QUESTIONS

What do you use the internet for mostly aside from e-mail, social networking, and media (such as music, movies, and television)?

How many hours a day do you honestly use the internet, including listening to music, watching streaming or downloaded videos, and using the internet from your phone?

How many hours per day/week do you spend on the internet?

Could any of you live without the internet and would you want to?

Do you think we spend too much time on the internet? Why?

What is the best/worst thing about the internet,? Be specific, ex. favorite site or pop-ups;

Is the internet dangerous? Why?

Do you ever meet people from the internet? Is this dangerous?

What sites do you use to plan trips or vacations?

What parts of your vacation do you use the internet to plan? Do you plan just the flights, or accomodations as well?

How do you plan your trips meals? Do you search for stores online, on your phone, or do you wander around?

Do you plan restaurants online? Do you often look for the menu to a place online?

LINKS -
There are many free sites for creating blogs, which could be useful for your presentations, including:
blogspot.com
wordpress.org
tumbler

Sites regarding tourism:
For transportation and/or places to stay-
hostelbookers.com
booking.com
lastminute.com
covoiturage.fr
couchsurfing.org

For organizing things to do on your trip:
lonelyplanet.com - general site for travel planning
atlasobsura.org - Strange and urious travel desitinations
nft.com - Not For Tourists, a website providing reviews to many frequently visitied cities.
yelp.com - an American site that allows users to review restaurants, bars, and more and give ratings, similar to la fute & routard

Wine Lesson - Level 4B

Here is the link to the first article we listened to and read along:

http://eslseveneight.blogspot.com/2010/11/business-of-wine-making-part-one-from.html

I also read this article to you, and followed with questions which you can find downloadable at the end of the article:

http://www.headsupenglish.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=100&Itemid=50

We watched this clip of Conan O'Brian, from the TV show, Late Night with Conan O'Brian:

http://www.eatmedaily.com/2009/02/conan-visits-a-vineyard-in-napa-valley-classic-late-night-with-conan-obrien-video/

And here you have a large vocabulary list:

picked ripe grapes – fraichement cueille; choisir des raisins fraiche
crushed together – s’écraser ensemble
broke open – caisser ouvert; se crever
yeasts on the skins – levure sur les marcs (?)
offerings – des offres
Middles Ages – Les Moyen Ages
stored for future use –garder pour utiliser plus tard
better storage method – meilleur stockage method
wood, clay or leather – bois, terre, ou cuir
tight seal - fermature
tannin – acid digallique

Ecotourism Level 4A

Here are the links to the videos we watched in class about the Kerala territory and its Ecotourism.

Part 1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Us5OWd6gy3Q
Part 2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKp1Y0O6eo4&feature=channel
Part 3 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7qzOV4G7JM&feature=channel
Part 4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7qzOV4G7JM&feature=channel

While watching the videos, pay attention to the use of vocabulary, but also the marketing techniques that makes these videos effective advertising.

• Repetitive use of the world map to enforce location
• repetitive use of the same type face for different areas of Kerala
• Each area has different slogan
• The use of tranquil world music to reiiterate the calming effects of nature
• repetitive descriptions of activities alongside activities special to each area
• The editing of the video to show as much in a short amount of time of each region

Notes from the video and terms to listen for:

tranquil backwaters: calm rivers
variety of terrains: different landscapes
world's best tourism with a variety of different landscapes
conservationists
eco-development
ex-poachers : people who used to kill endangered and lawfully protected animals
wildlife sanctuary
national park
plantation tours
enivironmental education
river crossing
mother nature enthusiasts
panoramic views
bird watching
chief attractions
leaves you "spell-bound" : when you are so amazed you are speechless
uninhibited : can mean no one lives there, OR that you have no shame
"teeming" with exotic wildlife : overflowing
nature lovers
awe inspiring experience : it gives you a feeling of amazement
visual feast : food for your eyes; your eyes have plenty of enjoyment and things to see

Here is a contrasting view of India:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNBBDelwSCw

Eco - Tourism : Niveau 2

Green Tourism graces ITB Berlin Travel Fair
http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,5338973,00.html

ITB Berlin Trade Show 2011
http://www1.messe-berlin.de/vip8_1/website/Internet/Internet/www.itb-berlin/englisch/index.html

EDEN - The European Destinations of Excellence
http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/sectors/tourism/eden/index_en.htm

Federal Agency for Nature Conservation
http://www.bfn.de/?L=1

Vocabulary, Know the following terms

Cruise packages
overseas getaways
trekking tours
Sustainable travel
Carbon Footprints
CO2 emissions
natural landscapes
trendy topic
broad-reaching
abroad
protected areas
tourism and leisure packages
untouched natural preserves

Notes from the Desk - Tourist Sites

In the Regional Lesson I gave, in the Level 4 class, I talked about several Touristic Sites, they are listed here.



















Statue of Liberty - www.statueofliberty.org
A gift from France.


















Hollywood - located within Los Angeles - http://www.latourist.com/index.php?page=hollywood-links



















Yosemite National Park - http://www.nps.gov/yose/


































Disney World - http://disneyworld.disney.go.com/
Disney Land is in California.

Grand Canyon - www.nps.gov/grca























Smithsonian Institute - www.si.edu
The Smithsonian Institution was founded for the "increase and diffusion" of knowledge from a bequest to the United States by the British scientist James Smithson (1765–1829), who never visited the new nation.






















Mount Rushmore - www.nps.gov/moru/
Sculpted by Gutzon Borglum and later by his son Lincoln Borglum. It was originally concived to promote tourism in South Dakato.The presidents were originally to be sculpted from head to waist, but lack of funding called the project quits after 1941.


















Mardi Gras - www.mardigrasneworleans.com/
Self explanatory.

Yellowstone National Park - www.nps.gov/yell
The first national park in the world, and Native Americans have occupied this territory for 11,000 years. It is mostly located in Wyoming, but also extends into Idaho and Montana as well. It's most famous attraction is Old Faithful, which is a geyser that explodes every 60 to 90 minutes, and the explosion lasts anywhere from 1.5 minutes to 5 minutes each time.
Colonial Williamsburg - www.history.org
Located in Virginia, it includes buildings dating from 1699 to 1780.Re-enactors try to emulate the Revolutionary mentality of the people living here at the time. It was a center for the molding of the American Government and its use of Democracy.















Gettysburg, Pennsylvania - www.gettysburg.com
The changing point of the Civil War, which took place from 1861 - 1865. Prior to this Battle and the Gettysburg Address given by Abraham Lincoln, the South was winning the war. After this Battle, the Northern States (the Union) made significant strides to securing a victory.





















The Alamo - www.alamo.org
Texan-Americans troops were settled in a Fort named the Alamo in what was previously Mexican Territory during the 1800s. The Mexicans threatened to take back their land by force, and they did. This became known as the Battle of the Alamo, known for the cry "Remember the Alamo". This helped to trigger the Mexican War, in which the U.S. eventually won, and took significant amounts of territory from Mexico, and rejoined Texas with the Union.

























Golden Gate Bridge - www.goldengatebridge.org/visitors/

A prefect example of a 'suspension' style bridge. The second longest of its kind in the U.S., the first longest being the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge in New York City, which connects Brooklyn and Staten Island.






















Willis Tower - (Formerly known as the Sears Tower) - www.willistower.com
The site of the tallest building in North America.