| Educational guide Facultat de Turisme i Geografia |
english |
| Bachelor's Degree in Tourism (2009) |
 Subjects |
| ADVANCED ENGLISH |
| Continguts |
| IDENTIFYING DATA | 2021_22 |
| Subject | ADVANCED ENGLISH | Code | 21204114 | |||||
| Study programme |
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Cycle | 1st | |||||
| Descriptors | Credits | Type | Year | Period | ||||
| 6 | Compulsory | Third | 1Q |
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| Continguts | Atenció personalitzada | Avaluació |
| Fonts d'informació | ||
| Topic | Sub-topic |
| UNIT 1 – TOURISM TODAY | -Changes in Tourism in the last 30 years. -Describing the current state of tourism: the geographies of tourism and leisure economies -Giving opinions. Agreeing and Disagreeing -Graphs and Charts. Adjectives in guide books and brochures to describe places and nouns used in adjectival form. -Future trends with statistics -Presenting the future of tourism. -Your CV -Expressing future prediction, asking and answering hypothetical questions. |
| UNIT 2 - E-TRAVEL and TOURISM WEBSITES | -Countable and Uncountable words -Email replies -Web words and collocations -Online purchases of travel products -The language of advertising and publicity |
| UNIT 3 – HOTEL BRANDING | -Making predictions -Degrees of certainty -Hotels of the future |
| UNIT 4 – SUSTAINABLE TOURISM |
-Reporting verbs -Verb + Noun collocations -Ecotourism and eco-resorts -Describing the environmental impact of tourism -Sustainable tourism: concepts and definitions |
| UNIT 5 – QUALITY IN TOURISM | -Dealing with oral & written complaints: letters and e-mails -Responding to a complaint |
| UNIT 6 – HERITAGE AND TOUR GUIDES |
-Talking about the past. -Describing a heritage site -Working as a tour guide -Guiding expressions |
| UNIT 7 – EVENT MANAGEMENT | -Hypothetical situations -Collocations with "event". Compounds -Understanding contracts -The job of event organizer. -Briefing and clarifying arrangements |
| UNIT 8 - CAREERS | -Dependent prepositions -Adjectives describing personality -Applying for a job -Interviews |
| UNIT 9 - CULINARY TOURISM AND ADVENTURE SPORTS | -Relative clauses -Describing food -Gastronomy -Review of modal verbs -Risk prevention -Dealing with crises -Types of risk |
| UNIT 9 - ORAL PRESENTATION | Describe the variety of ways in which people can travel -Explain the disadvantages of different types of travel. -Describe the different types of travelers and tourists and explain their reasons for travelling. -Describe and explain the range of needs that different types of travelers and tourists may have. -Describe the facilities that different types of accommodation may offer (e.g. hotels, hostels, campsites, etc.) -Describe the range of holiday types that are available (e.g. package holidays, cruises, skiing holidays, etc.) -Describe the different job roles that occur in the hotel, catering, airline, ground transport and tourism industries. -Explain the skills, qualities and qualifications needed to work in those roles. |
