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• TRANSVERSAL COMPETENCES
• Gather and select useful information from different sources and formats to suit the specific objectives.
• Read, understand and analyse scientific texts.
• Communicate fluently both in oral and written expression.
• Analyse complex situations and design strategies to solve them individually or in groups.
• Work in teams to encourage and maintain long-term cooperation.
• Select and use the most adequate information technology for each situation in both personal and professional contexts.
• SPECIFIC COMPETENCES
• Achieve a good command of English Grammar
• Acquire the competences in written comprehension required for professional duties
• Acquire the competences in oral comprehension required for professional duties
• Acquire the competences in oral expression required for professional duties
• Acquire the competences in written expression required for professional duties

1. LEVEL A: The course consists of a series of units of a Student’s book that covers diverse topics related to tourism. Each unit introduces a topic area with vocabulary, real-life dialogues and activities to practice the language. The topics covered in Level A are the following:

          1.1. Careers in tourism

                    1.1.1. Jobs and duties

                    1.1.2. Writing a Curriculum vitae

                    1.1.3. Writing an application letter

                    1.1.4. Applying for a job

          1.2. Destinations

                    1.2.1. Describing a destination

          1.3. Preparing a presentation

                    1.3.1. Giving a short presentation

          1.4. Hotel facilities

                    1.4.1. Describing hotels

                    1.4.2. Writing a hotel description

          1.5. Tour operators

                    1.5.1. Package holidays

          1.6. Dealing with complaints

                    1.6.1. Letters of complaint

                    1.6.2. Letters of apology

                    1.6.3. Dealing with guests

                    1.6.4. Dealing with a complaint

                    1.6.5. Solving problems

          1.7. Travel agencies

                    1.7.1. Telephone language

                    1.7.2. Taking a telephone booking

                    1.7.3. Preparing an educational report

                    1.7.4. Letters of enquiry

                    1.7.5. Letters of reply

                    1.7.6. Hotel reservations

          1.8. Conferences and conventions

          1.9. Sending and taking messages

          1.10. Seeing the sights

                    1.10.1. Recommending sights

                    1.10.2. Describing an exhibition

                    1.10.3. Guiding for a famous sight

          1.11. Writing a brochure

          1.12. Eating out

                    1.12.1. Food preparation

                    1.12.2. Describing dishes

                    1.12.3. Recommending a restaurant

                    1.12.4. Preparing a menu

                    1.12.5. Taking an order

          1.13. Traditions

                    1.13.1. Describing a festival

                    1.13.2. Public holidays

                    1.13.3. Recommending a festival

2. LEVEL B: The course consists of a Student’s book which covers a wide range of topics related to Tourism. Each unit introduces a topic area with vocabulary, real-life dialogues and activities to practice the language. The topics covered in level B are the following:

          2.1. Tour operation

                    2.1.1. -The role of the tour operator

                    2.1.2. -Negotiations

                    2.1.3. -Complaints

          2.2. Air Travel

                    2.2.1. -Announcements and procedures

                    2.2.2. -Checking in

                    2.2.3. -Flight Attendants

          2.3. Travel by sea and river-cruises and ferries

                    2.3.1. -Cruise information

                    2.3.2. -Ticket information and itineraries

                    2.3.3. -On-board information

          2.4. Travel by road and rail

                    2.4.1. -The best way to travel

                    2.4.2. -Independent travel overland

          2.5. -Coach Tours

                    2.5.1. Guiding

                    2.5.2. -Working as a tour guide

                    2.5.3. -Information

                    2.5.4. -On Tour

          2.6. Promotion and marketing in Tourism

                    2.6.1. -Selling a holiday

                    2.6.2. -Specialist Holidays

                    2.6.3. -Promotion on the Internet

          2.7. Developments in Tourism

                    2.7.1. -The advantages and disadvantages

          2.8. -Tourism and the environment

          2.9. The students of level B are expected to improve and practice the following Grammar structures:

                    2.9.1. Future Tenses

                    2.9.2. Will

                    2.9.3. Going to

                    2.9.4. Present Continuous

                    2.9.5. Simple present to talk about the future

                    2.9.6. If and when

                    2.9.7. Future Progressive

                    2.9.8. Future Perfect

                    2.9.9. Future in the past

                    2.9.10. Adjectives and Adverbs

                    2.9.11. Confusing adjectives and adverbs

                    2.9.12. Word order

                    2.9.13. Adverbs at the end of a sentence

                    2.9.14. Still, yet and already

                    2.9.15. Comparatives and Superlatives

                    2.9.16. Irregular comparison

                    2.9.17. Comparative and superlative adverbs

                    2.9.18. Much with comparatives

                    2.9.19. Than, as, that

                    2.9.20. As….as

                    2.9.21. Like and as

                    2.9.22. So and such

                    2.9.23. Very and too

                    2.9.24. Modal Auxiliary verbs

                    2.9.25. Must/ have to

                    2.9.26. Can, Could and May

                    2.9.27. Will/Shall

                    2.9.28. Had better

                    2.9.29. Used to/to be used to/to get used to

                    2.9.30. Supposed to

                    2.9.31. Saxon Genitive

                    2.9.32. Possessive’s

                    2.9.33. Noun+noun

                    2.9.34. Noun+noun or preposition structure

                    2.9.35. Noun+noun and possessive ‘s

                    2.9.36. Possessive ‘s or the of structure

                    2.9.37. Phrasal verbs:Units 16-30 Exercises on Phrasal verbs

3. LEVEL C:

          3.1. GRAMMAR CONTENTS: All grammar units referred to will be found in ENGLISH GRAMMAR IN USE by Murphy

                    3.1.1. Conditional tenses (Types 1, 2, and 3) – (UNITS 37-40)

                    3.1.2. Passive voice- (UNITS 41-45)

                    3.1.3. Reported speech – (UNITS 46-47)

                    3.1.4. Relative clauses –(UNITS 91–96)

                    3.1.5. Compound nouns –(UNITS 79-80)

                    3.1.6. Phrasal verbs by Seidl –UNITS 32 onwards till the end of the course.

          3.2. TOPICS:

                    3.2.1. Types of holiday / Things to do / Marketing the past/ Promoting a destination/ Where people go (minimum)

          3.3. TYPES OF LANGUAGE ACTIVITIES

                    3.3.1. Aural comprehension, written comprehension, composition writing, reports, vocabulary search exercises, grammar exercises, projects, phrasal verb exercises (32-48), speech making, conversation topics, role play, videos, cassette listening texts etc.

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Tipus d'exàmens:
LEVELS A & B
The aim of continuous assessment is to evaluate the students’ progress throughout the course taking into account the level being achieved (proficiency) and effort made.
As well as determining the final grade for the course, this assessment should produce an ongoing record of each student’s progress, proficiency and effort.
This ongoing record:
-will enable students to see their progress
-will include 30% of tasks (homework + class work) and 70% of exams. This system applies to both the February and the June evaluation. In order to sit the exams (February and June), the student should attend a minimum of 80% of classes.

LEVEL C
The aim of continuous assessment is to evaluate the students’ progress throughout the course taking into account the level being achieved (proficiency) and effort made.
As well as determining the final grade, which includes 30% of tasks (class work + homework)and 70% of exams, this assessment should produce an ongoing record of each students progress, proficiency and effort.
This system applies both to February and June evaluations. In order to sit the exams (February / June) students should attend a minimum of 80% of the classes.