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• 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

1. BLOCK 1: ENGLISH FOR TOURISM & FIRST CERTIFICATE PRACTICE

2. Defining tourism • Defining tourists and other types of travellers • Travel words often confused: travel, trip, journey, way, etc. • Adventure tourism. Verb collocation with sporting activities • Word focus 1 • Exercises from a First Certificate Examination (1) • Writing test 1: An FCE exam task

3. Jobs in tourism • Vocabulary of tourism jobs and skills • Job-related words often confused • Countable and uncountable nouns • Writing test 2: Writing a CV • Word focus 2 • Exercises from a First Certificate Examination (2)

4. Tourist attractions • Terminology of tourist attractions • Latest developments in tourist attractions • –ed/-ing adjectives • Word focus 3 • Exercises from a First Certificate Examination (2)

5. Hotels • Vocabulary of hotel facilities • Describing hotels • Front office terminology • Making comparisons • Word focus 4 • Exercises from a First Certificate Examination (4)

6. Brochure language • Descriptive adjectives • Writing test 4: A brochure description • Word focus 5 • Exercises from a First Certificate Examination (5)

7. Working in a travel agency • Making suggestions • Advising customers on destinations: travel agency terminology • Infinitives and verbs with –ing • Collocations with make and do • Word focus 6 • Exercises from a First Certificate Examination (6)

8. BLOCK 2: COMMUNICATION & CULTURE

9. Professional language 1: Telephone

10. Pronunciation 1: Introduction to sounds &phonemic alphabet

11. Series 1: Fresh meat(2011)

12. Reading 1: an article: How to Get and Keep the Attention of Travel, Tourism and Hospitality Professionals

13. Professional language 2: Hotel check-in & check-out

14. Series 2: Game of Thrones : Winter is coming (2011) • Writing test 3: Review of Winter is coming

15. Pronunciation 2: Vowel sounds

16. Reading 2: Short story: The Bookseller, by Roald Dahl

17. BLOCK 3: SELF-LEARNING WORK The teacher will ask students to do a number of self-learning activities from the program called Tell me More ® from the Rosetta Stone Company. At the onset of the 2nd term, the teacher will establish the number of hours students will have to dedicate to activities from this programme. Tell me More® will evaluate the work done and will generate a final report according to the work load done in terms of hours spent on the various activities. Doing the amount of work requested will grant the student a percentage of the final grade.

• Peter Strutt (2013). English for International Tourism. Intermediate. Edinburgh: Pearson.
• Peter Strutt (2013). English for International Tourism. Upper-intermediate. Edinburgh: Pearson.
• Robin Walker, Keith Harding (2006). Tourism 1 (1ª). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Walker, Robin & Keith Harding (2007). Tourism 2. Oxford University Press.
• Pohl, Alison (1996). Test your Business English. Hotel and Catering. . London: Penguin Books.
• Riley, David (1995). Check your Vocabulary for Hotels, Tourism and Catering Management. Great Britain: Peter Colin Publishing.
• Kenna Bourke (2006). Test It, Fix It. FCE:Use of English.(Upper-intermediate) (2ª). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Guy Brook-Hart (2014). Complete First (2ª). Madrid: Cambridge University Press.
• Nick kenny, Lucrecia Luque-Mortimer (2014). Practice Tests Plus 2. Harlow: Pearson.
• Promodrou, Luke (2012). Grammar and Vocabulary for Cambridge First. Harlow: Pearson Education Limited..
• Harrison, Mark (2008). Use of English. First Certificate Skills for Cambridge . Oxford University Press.

Activitats d'avaluació:

The assessment criteria listed above are for those student who choose formative assessment. These learners will have to take into account the following considerations:

1)At re-sits, students will only recover the exams they have failed, i.e., those who have passed the competence exam but failed the oral will only have to re-sit the oral exam, and vice versa.
2)If a student fails the oral exam of the first semester, passing the oral exam of the 2nd semester will be enough to recover that mark, but the mark of the first semester will be maintained when it comes to establishing the student’s final mark.
3)Students who do not show up for the writing tests will have to do these writing tasks on the day of the corresponding competence exam. No tasks will be accepted from home.
4) If a student fails a writing test, or scores a low mark in it, this mark will remain. There are no alternative tests to catch up or raise that low grade. What students are advised to do in that case is to aim at getting a higher mark in the next writing test in order to improve the mean grade.
5) Students will have a deadline to show the teacher they have done the number of self-learning work required. After that date, students will have no chances of gaining the percentage of points allocated to that activity.
6)The fact of not doing these self-learning tasks will just affect the final mark. In no way will a student fail for the fact of not having done this part. However, the final grade must be a 5. This means students have to be aware that if this part of the course is not done, the rest of examinations and activities must be passed with high marks to ensure the resulting grade is enough to reach a 5.



Students who choose summative assessment must fill in a form stating their decision and submit it to the academic secretary by 30th October. The percentages in their case work like this: 50% for a comprehensive written exam + 30% for an oral exam + 20% of self-learning work.

Criteris específics de la nota «No Presentat»:
Only no shows will get an NP (No presentat)

There will be three groups for English lessons with the aim to reinforce interaction between teacher and students and promote conversation and oral practice in class.
The level in the first year of the Degree in Tourism is at times B2.1 or B2.2, according to the General European Framework of Languages. The expected level by the end of the degree is a solid B2, enough to make them pass the First Certificate Examination.