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Curs acadèmic:
2023
Descripció:
Crèdits ECTS:
3

Grups

Grup A

Durada:
Semestral, 2n semestre
Professorat:
Idioma de les classes:
Anglès (100%)

Competències

  • 4. Utilitzar la llengua anglesa i una altra llengua estrangera
  • 9. Tenir habilitat per a les relacions personals en qualsevol context i situació.
  • 17. Comunicar-se oralment i per escrit
  • 21. Utilitzar la terminologia i el llenguatge dels diversos àmbits turístics

Continguts

1. BLOCK 1: ENGLISH for TOURISM and CAE PRACTICE

2. PREPARATION for SKILLS TEST 1. Reading: multiple choice Listening: multiple choice, 3 situations (PART 1, LISTENING PAPER) Writing: informal letters

3. TOPIC 1, Leisure and entertainment. Practice of complex prepositions Participle clauses They’re rolling in money! Business words and expressions CAE multiple choice practice

4. TOPIC 2 (PART 1), Media matters. ESP tourism: Citizen journalism and its impact on tourism Word formation: prefixes

5. PREPARATION for SKILLS TEST 2. Reading: gapped texts Listening: word completion (PART 2, LISTENING PAPER) Writing: an essay

6. TOPIC 2 (PART 2), Media matters. Listening and reading tasks from the unit Reported speech revisited Vocabulary: talking verbs Word formation practice: miscellaneous tasks from CAE exams

7. TOPIC 3, At top speed. Listening and reading tasks from the unit Time clauses Vocabulary: action, activity, event and programme Practice of key-word transformation

8. PREPARATION for SKILLS TEST 3. Reading: multiple matching Listening: conversation with multiple choice questions, PART 3, Listening paper Writing: a report

9. TOPIC 4, A lifelong process. Listening and reading tasks from the unit Modals revisited: expressing ability, possibility and obligation. Vocabulary; occasion, opportunity, possibility and chance A life lesson: idiomatic expressions

10. TOPIC 5, Being somewhere else (PART 1). Listening and reading tasks from the unit Phrasal verbs At, in, on to express location

11. PREPARATION for SKILLS TEST 4. Reading: cross-text multiple matching Listening: multiple matching, PART 4, Listening paper Writing: an article

12. TOPIC 5 (PART 2): Being somewhere else. Vocabulary: travel words and expressions Conditionals revisited ESP tourism: travel writing

13. TOPIC 6, Health and lifestyle. Listening and reading tasks from the unit Vocabulary related to health and medicine Prepositions following adjectives Word formation practice ESP tourism: wellness vs. medical tourism

14. BLOCK 2: COMMUNICATION

15. Series: House of cards (S1, E1, 2017) 1.1 Writing test: a review of House of Cards

16. Professional language: Running meetings

17. CAE practice: Listening & Speaking

18. Reading 1: The good Immigrant, by Nikesh Shukla (extracts on the Classlife)

19. Professional language: Negotiations

20. Series: Modern Family (S1, 2009), s1 e1 and e2

21. CAE practice: Listening & Speaking

22. Reading:The top ten ways that culture can affect international negotiations

Activitats

Tipus d’activitat Hores amb professor Hores sense professor Hores virtuals amb professor Total
Altres 0 5,00 0 5,00
Anàlisi / estudi de casos 1,00 4,00 0 5,00
Exposició dels estudiants 1,00 4,00 0 5,00
Lectura / comentari de textos 1,00 2,00 0 3,00
Prova d'avaluació 4,00 12,00 3,00 19,00
Resolució d'exercicis 12,00 6,00 0 18,00
Sessió participativa 10,00 0 10,00 20,00
Total 29,00 33,00 13,00 75

Bibliografia

  • Walker, Robin & Harding, Keith (2007). Tourism 3. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • Peter Strutt (2013). English for International Tourism. Upper-intermediate. Pearson.
  • Powell, Debra (2005). Common Mistakes at CAE. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Brook-Hart, Guy and Simon Haynes (2014). Complete Advanced. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Mann, Malcolm & Steve Taylore-Knowles (2007). Destination C1 and C2. Grammar and Vocabulary. London: Macmillan.
  • Hewings Martin and Simon Haimes (2015). Grammar and Vocabulary for Advanced. . Cambridge: Cambridge UniversityPress.
  • Betsis, Andrew & Lawrence Mamas (2014). Successful CAE: Ten Practice Tests. Brighton: Global ELT.

Avaluació i qualificació

Activitats d'avaluació:

Descripció de l'activitat Avaluació de l'activitat % Recuperable
Interactive lessons Students will be given a mark based on how often they attend lessons and how much they participate in class. 5% is for attendance and 5% is from participation. 10 No
Writing test COMMUNICATION Students will have to write a review following CAE criteria for one of the series watched in the communication block. 5 No
Class presentation Students will have to give a class presentation about a topic related to travel and tourism. 10 No
Self-study work This 10% of mark is left open for the teacher to decide what activity students can do on their own to make them practise the language 10 No
Oral exams Two oral exams (one per semester, 10% the first and 15% the second). These exams will require students to show their ability to produce spontaneous language based on the activities covered in the block of English for Communication and culture. There is a minimum mark of 4.5 in the second oral test. 25
Written exams Four exams will be held in mid and late semester to test students on contents covered in the grammar and ESP block. These tests will have a format similar to CAE exams, including Use of English, listening, reading and writing. 10% each test. 40

Qualificació

Important to remember:

If a student has a mean grade of 5 or over 5 but has a mark lower than 4.5 in the 2nd oral exam (the one held in late May), they will have to re-sit only the ORAL EXAM in late June.

If the mean grade is lower than 5 because of the grammar block, they will have to re-sit only that part.

If the mean grade is lower than 5 because the student has had a poor performance in both blocks, they will have to re-sit both the grammar and the oral block.

If the mean grade is 4.8 or 4.9: The teacher will look at the mark from attendance and participation and will decide whether the student will have to re-sit exams in accordance with the students’ engagement in the course. If the mean grade is lower than 4.8, students will have to go to re-sits.

At re-sits (both written and oral), students will have to take a comprehensive exam of all the year. The marks accumulated throughout the course will count for nothing at re-sits. The maximum grade that can be obtained at re-sits is a 6.

Criteris específics de la nota «No Presentat»:
Only NO SHOWS will get an NP.

Avaluació única:
Students who finally do single evaluation will have to do the following tasks: 1) written exam first semester- 20%; oral exam first semester - 15%; written exam 2nd semester - 25%; oral exam 2nd semester - 20%; 4 writing tasks - 20% (5% each task, two tasks each semester).

Deadline to request single evaluation: 16 October 2020

Requisits mínims per aprovar:
Per considerar superada l’assignatura, caldrà obtenir una qualificació mínima de 5.0

Tutoria

Students will have some time for tutorials per week. They can book a fifteen or thirty-minute time slot to be with the teacher and make their consultations.

Students must book their tutorial beforehand by using the schools's booking system.

Faculty will get a message informing about time slots booked and by what students.

Tutorials can be held face-to-face in the centre or online through streaming as requested by students.

Students should go to these tutorials well-prepared with queries and questions; in no way are these tutorials meant to be repetition of lessons for those learners who failed to attend in due time.

Comunicacio i interacció amb l'estudiantat

Faculty and students can get in touch with each other through different channels. On a regular basis students use the email of our virtual campus or the gmail of the centre. We also communicate by writing side comments on GOOGLE shared documents.

If lessons are held on line, what can be used is the FORUM of the moodle or the chats of HANGOUTS or MEET.

For sessions on streaming we tend to use HANGOUTS or MEET.

Another channel of communication is the tutorials mentioned above.

Modificació del disseny

Modificació de les activitats:
Activities will be the same if lessons have to be held on line because of another hypothetical lockdown situation. In that case, the amount of hours counted in the face-to-face modality will be reverted to synchronous hours with a virtual teacher.

Modificació de l'avaluació:
Evaluation tasks and percentages will be maintained. The only thing that will differ is that exams will be held online through Google forms. If that happens, exams will be administered by means of different google forms, and timings will be tightened to avoid possible cheating.

Tutoria i comunicació:
Tutorials can be held online if the situation of a student requires it. The booking system will work as usual.

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