1. BLOCK 1: GRAMMAR
2. PREPARATION FOR SKILLS TEST 1.
Reading: multiple matching;
Listening: multiple choice, 8 situations (PART 1, LISTENING PAPER);
Writing: reports
3. TOPIC 1, HOLIDAYING
Listening and reading tasks from the unit;
Review of Present Perfect Tenses;
Words often confused: travel, trip, journey, way;
Comparing hotels (review of comparatives and superlatives)
4. TOPIC 2 (PART 1), THE CATERING INDUSTRY
Words often confused: food, dish & meal;
Intensifiers: SO & SUCH;
Food vocabulary. Restaurant menus
5. Word focus 1 and word formation 1 (adjective suffixes)
6. PREPARATION for SKILLS TEST 2
Reading: gapped texts;
Listening: word completion (PART 2, LISTENING PAPER);
Writing: articles
7. TOPIC 2 (PART 2), The catering industry
Listening and reading tasks from the unit;
TOO & ENOUGH;
Describing national dishes
8. TOPIC 3, Study time.
Listening and reading tasks from the unit
Vocabulary related to education
Phrasal verbs
Zero, first and second conditionals
9. Word focus 2 and word formation 2 (nouns derived from verbs)
10. PREPARATION for SKILLS TEST 3.
Reading: multiple choice;
Listening: multiple matching, PART 3, Listening paper;
Writing: cover letters
11. TOPIC 4, First jobs.
Listening and reading tasks from the unit;
Countable vs. uncountable nouns;
Words often confused: work/job, possibility/opportunity/occasion, fun/funny;
Jobs in the tourism industry;
Sell yourself for a job!
12. TOPIC 5 (PART 1), Adventure tourism.
Vocabulary of adventure sports;
Verbs that collocate with sports;
13. Word focus 3 and Word formation 3: suffixes to define agents and jobs
14. PREPARATION for SKILLS TEST 4.
Reading: gapped text;
Listening: multiple choice (a conversation), PART 4, Listening paper;
Writing: essays
15. TOPIC 5 (PART 2), Adventure tourism.
Listening and reading tasks from the unit;
to+INF or -ing;
Key-word transformation practice;
Words often confused: see, look, watch, hear, listen
16. UNIT 6, Celebrity travel.
Listening and reading tasks from the unit;
Reported speech;
Words often confused: Verb collocations with ambition, career, experience and job; play, performance & acting; audience, the public & spectators; scene & stage
17. Word focus 4 and word formation 4: miscellaneous tasks
18. BLOCK 2: COMMUNICATION & CULTURE
19. Professional language 1: Telephone
20. Series 1: Fresh meat(2011)
21. Reading 1: several authors (2015). Tourism stories -My story, my community, our future. Madrid: World Tourism Organization (WTO).
22. Professional language 2: Hotel check-in & check-out
23. Series 2: The OA, season 1, episode 1. Writing test 3: Review of Winter is coming
24. Reading 2: Short story: The Road Up to Heaven, by Roald Dahl
Important to remember:
1.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.
2.If the mean grade is lower than 5 because of the grammar block, they will have to re-sit only that part.
3.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.
4.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.
5.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 (No presentat)
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
To pass the subject, students must have a minimum grade of 5.