Overall objectives:

1 - This course aims at consolidating and expanding the lexical and syntactic structures acquired in English language courses (Levels B1/B2 - CEFR) by drawing on a corpus of texts related to travel, tourism, leisure and hospitality to promote the use of a variety of techniques in written and oral communication particularly regarding skilled interpersonal and professional communication in English. It entails the study of topic-related texts in different professional discursive practices which students are likely to meet in the job market in interdiscursive domains and segments so as to: (i) develop students? awareness of diverse discursive practices; (ii) sensitise students to a variety registers and uses of the English language, including its varieties, both written and oral; (iii) build on students? creative use of adequate linguistic structures and specific domains in order to create coherent and cohesive texts.

Syllabus:

1 - Tourism and Leisure Industries: Destination / Sites; Transportation; Accommodation; Food & Beverage; Reservations & Sales; Events & Recreation;
2 - Professional Communication : Giving Holiday / Leisure Information; Taking Bookings and Filling in Forms; Planning and Organising Activities (Conference Venues, Meetings, Designing a Programme of Excursions and an Itinerary; Planning a Package Tour / guided tour); Contacting Regional, National, International Tourist Boards;
3 - Socio-Cultural Exchanges (Local Traditions, Cultures and Communities; Key Historical and Natural Attractions; Regional Routes and Walking Trails). English Grammar: Nouns; Nominal Groups: Pre-modification, Post-modification; Adjectives (Degrees, Formation, Compounding with Numbers, Order); Adverbs; Verb (Two-part Verbs; Time, Tense, Aspect, Mood and Voice; Finites; Infinitive, Past Participle and ?-ing? Form); Modal Verbs; Phrasal Verbs; Inversion and Emphasis.

Literature/Sources:

Strutt, P., Dubicka, I, O?Keefe, M. , 2016 , English for International Tourism (Upper-intermediate Level) , Harlow: Pearson Longman
Beaver, A. , 2012 , Dictionary of Travel and Tourism Terminology , Oxford: OUP
Biber, D. et al. , 2004 , Longman Grammar of Spoken and Written English , Essex: Longman
Collins Cobuild , English Language Dictionary for Advanced Learners , London: Collins.
Greenbaum, S., Quirk, R. , 1991 , A Students? Grammar of the English Language , London: Longman
- , Dictionary of English Phrasal Verbs and their Idioms , London: HarperCollins
- , Longman Dictionary of English Language and Culture , London: Longman
Meddik, S. , 2012 , Dictionary of Travel, Tourism and Hospitality , Taylor and Francis
- , Peter Collin Specialist Dictionary ? Hotels, Tourism, Catering / Culinary Terms , Collins
- , 1985 , The Oxford-Duden Pictorial English Dictionary , Oxford: Oxford University Press

Assesssment methods and criteria:

Classification Type: Quantitativa (0-20)

Evaluation Methodology:
Student-centred and task-oriented methodology of a reflective and collaborative ESP teaching / learning instruction and underpinned by short oral and written assignments, role-plays and presentations. Activity-based and integrative skills approach - practising language in ways that develop students? interpersonal and professional communication skills, also focusing on grammar, vocabulary (specialised language) and prosody. Listening comprehension tasks; intensive oral practice; role-play; Internet-based tasks; audio-visual resources. Linguistic analysis in context of authentic sources forwarded by the production of oral and written texts in use in real life, such as: contracts, reports, forms, invoices, letters, minutes, notices, leaflets, messages and faxes. Student?s assessment comprises one written exam (50%) and an oral presentation (50%). All the work assigned during the semester is exam-relevant and home assignments are compulsory. The resit exam corresponds to 100%.