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1.- Subject details
Código
Asignatura
29123
Inglés III
Titulación
Grado en Turismo
Carácter
Obligatoria
Curso
3º
Créditos
P NP Total
2.4 3.6
6
Idioma
Semestre
1º
Estudios
Grado
Inglés
Profesor
Sra Karin Karlsson
Correo-e
kkarlson@etb-baleares.es
P: Presenciales
Despacho
Teléfono
971-721133
NP: No Presenciales
2.- Rationale
English III features in the plan of studies of the Degree in Tourism within the
‘instrumental’ group of subjects. The subject deepens the knowledge and command of
English at a B2 level applied to the field of tourism. English is a vital tool in the
international and intercultural world of today, especially in tourism management.
3.- Requisites
3.1 Advisable prerequisites
None
3.2 Advisable prerequisites
 Have intermediate command of English in order to follow the classes
comfortably,
 have command of the Internet and virtual environments,
 have an interest in other languages and cultures,
 are willing to work in teams,
 are punctual.
4.- Skills
The subject focuses on the acquisition of the following…
4.1.
CG2
General skills:
Capacity to apply and integrate the skilled knowledge obtained in a
professional way within the tourism sector.
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4.2.
Specific skills:
CE1
Achieve enough command of the English language to perform communicative
skills and apply specific tourism-related terminology at an intermediate level.
CE8
Show knowledge and command of foreign languages, and achieve command of
tourism-related technologies, such as collecting and analysing data, carrying out
statistics, making online bookings, or conducting qualitative analyses.
5.- Course contents
Unit 1 Tourism today
1.1
Changes in tourism
1.2
Skills and challenges
Unit 2 NTOs
2.1
The importance of NTOs
2.2
Meetings: agenda, memos and minutes
2.3
A SWOT-analysis
Unit 3 Managing tour operations
3.1
Operations and contracts
3.2
Meetings & Negotiating
Unit 4 Hotel Management
4.1
The structure of the accommodation market
4.2
Managing a hotel
4.3
Human resources
Unit 5 Sustainable tourism
5.1
Concepts and definitions
5.2
Ecotourism in practice
Unit 6 Social Tourism
6.1
Social Tourism
6.2
Awareness, access and opportunity
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6.- Teaching method
6.1. In-class activities
Modality
Name
Grouping
Description
Presentation of specific lexical,
grammatical and pragmatic listed
in the subject’s contents.
Theory classes
Practical classes
Content presentation
Listening, reading, lang.
work
Large group
Large group
Introduction of professional skills
featured in the subject’s contents.
Exposure to language by
maintaining English as the
language of instruction
Development of communicative
activities at a B2 level in English
for Tourism.
Class work will include specific
activities focused on the four
communicative skills, with
special emphasis put on oral and
written skills within the field of
Tourism.
Practical classes will be
completed with class exercises
intended to develop the command
of a wider range of grammatical
and syntactic resources.
Assessment
Assessment
Assessment
6.2.
Progress-assessment
tests
Oral exam
Final exam
Large group
Small group
Large group
Formal assessment of grammar and
lexical acquisition.
Students will take assessment tests on
completion of the units.
Oral exam consisting of the
following three parts:
a) reading
b) guided practice (role
play)
c) free practice
(interview)
Formal assessment of written
skills (writing and reading) and
listening comprehension under
exam conditions.
Distance / self-study activities
Modality
Individual selfstudy
Individual selfstudy
Individual selfstudy
Name
Description
Individual completion of exercises and
cases set as homework on a daily basis.
Daily coursework/task completion
Preparation for progress assessment
tests
Study of lexical and grammatical
contents for end-of-unit progress
assessment tests
Written production of range of written
assignments.
Written assignments
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Group self-study
Individual selfstudy
Preparation for oral exam
Study and practice of oral skills in order
to role play a public relations situation
proposed under exam conditions.
Preparation for final exam
Individual work on communicative
skills to be assessed under final
exam conditions.
7.- Estimated workload
English II for Public Relations counts with a 40% in-class activities’ percentage, which
represents a total of 60 class contact hours (i.e.4hrs. per week inclusive of assessment
activities). Work load is distributed as follows:
Modality
In-class activities
Theory classes
Practical classes
Assessment
Assessment
Assessment
Name
Content presentation
Listening, reading, lang. work
Progress-assessment tests
Oral exam
Final exam
Distance / self-study activities
Individual selfDaily coursework/task
completion
study
Individual selfPreparation for progress
assessment tests
study
Individual selfWritten assignments
study
Group self-study Preparation for oral exam
Individual self
Preparation for final exam
study
Total
Hours
60
15
41.5
1.5
0.25
1.75
ECTS
2.4
0.6
1.6
0.06
0.01
0.07
%
40
10
27.6
1
0.2
1.2
90
3.6
60
60
2.4
40
6
0.24
4
8
0.32
5.3
4
0.16
2.7
12
0.48
8
150
6
100
8.- 8.- Week-by-week plan
FIRST TERM
Week 1
In-class activities: 2 hours (Unit 1: Tourism today)
Theory classes: content presentation: 1 hr.
Practical classes: listening, reading, language work: 1 hrs.
Distance/self-study activities: 4 hours
Individual self-study: daily coursework/task completion: 4 hrs.
Week 2
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In-class activities: 4 hours (Unit 1: Tourism today)
Theory classes: content presentation: 1 hr.
Practical classes: listening, reading, language work: 3 hrs.
Distance/self-study activities: 4 hrs.
Individual self-study: daily coursework/task completion: 4 hrs.
Week 3
In-class activities: 4 hours (Unit 1: Tourism today)
Theory classes: content presentation: 1 hr.
Practical classes: listening, reading, language work: 3 hrs.
Distance/self-study activities: 4 hrs.
Individual self-study: daily coursework/task completion: 4 hrs.
Week 4
In-class activities: 4 hours (Unit 2:NTO’s)
Theory classes: content presentation: 1 hr.
Practical classes: listening, reading, language work: 3 hrs.
Distance/self-study activities: 4 hrs.
Individual self-study: daily coursework/task completion: 4 hrs.
Week 5
In-class activities: 4 hours (Unit 2:NTO’s)
Theory classes: content presentation: 1 hr.
Practical classes: listening, reading, language work: 3 hrs.
Distance/self-study activities: 7 hrs.
Individual self-study: daily coursework/task completion: 4 hrs.
Individual self-study: written assignment 1: 2 hrs.
Week 6
In-class activities: 4 hours (Unit 2:NTO’s)
Theory classes: content presentation: 1 hr.
Practical classes: listening, reading, language work: 3 hrs.
Distance/self-study activities: 8 hrs.
Individual self-study: daily coursework/task completion: 4 hrs.
Individual self-study: preparation for progress assessment test 1: 2 hrs.
Individual self-study: written assignment 1: 2 hrs.
Week 7
In-class activities: 4 hrs. (Unit 3:Managing tour operations)
Assessment: Progress assessment test 1: ½ hrs.
Theory classes: content presentation: 1 hr.
Practical classes: listening, reading, language work: 2.5 hrs.
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Distance/self-study activities: 4 hrs.
Individual self-study: daily coursework/task completion: 4 hrs.
Week 8
In-class activities: 4 hours (Unit 3: Managing tour operations)
Theory classes: content presentation: 1 hr.
Practical classes: listening, reading, language work: 3 hrs.
Distance/self-study activities: 4 hrs.
Individual self-study: daily coursework/task completion: 4 hrs.
Week 9
In-class activities: 4 hours (Unit 4: Hotel Management)
Theory classes: content presentation: 1 hr.
Practical classes: listening, reading, language work: 3 hrs.
Distance/self-study activities: 4 hrs.
Individual self-study: daily coursework/task completion: 4 hrs.
Week 10
In-class activities: 4 hours (Unit 4: Hotel Management)
Theory classes: content presentation: 1 hr.
Practical classes: listening, reading, language work: 3 hrs.
Distance/self-study activities: 4 hrs.
Individual self-study: daily coursework/task completion: 4 hrs.
Week 11
In-class activities: 4 hours (Unit 4: Hotel Management)
Theory classes: content presentation: 1 hr.
Practical classes: listening, reading, language work: 3 hrs.
Distance/self-study activities: 6 hrs.
Individual self-study: daily coursework/task completion: 4 hrs.
Individual self-study: preparation for progress assessment test 2: 2 hrs.
Week 12
In-class activities: 4 hrs. (Unit 5: Sustainable tourism)
Assessment: Progress assessment test 2: ½ hrs.
Theory classes: content presentation: 1 hr.
Practical classes: listening, reading, language work: 2.5 hrs.
Distance/self-study activities: 6 hrs.
Individual self-study: daily coursework/task completion: 4 hrs.
Individual self-study: written assignment 2: 2 hrs.
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Week 13
In-class activities: 4 hrs. (Unit 5: Sustainable tourism )
Theory classes: content presentation: 1 hr.
Practical classes: listening, reading, language work: 3 hrs.
Distance/self-study activities: 6 hrs.
Individual self-study: daily coursework/task completion: 4 hrs.
Individual self-study: written assignment 1: 2 hrs.
Week 14
In-class activities: 4 hrs. (Unit 6: Social tourism)
Theory classes: content presentation: 1 hr.
Practical classes: listening, reading, language work: 3 hrs.
Distance/self-study activities: 10 hrs.
Individual self-study: daily coursework/task completion: 4 hrs.
Individual self-study: preparation for progress assessment test 2: 1 hr.
Individual self-study: preparation for final exam: 4 hrs.
Week 15
In-class activities: 4 hrs. (Unit 6: Social tourism)
Assessment: Progress assessment test 3: ½ hrs.
Theory classes: content presentation: 1 hr.
Practical classes: listening, reading, language work: 2.5 hrs.
Distance/self-study activities: 12 hrs.
Individual self-study: daily coursework/task completion: 4 hrs.
Individual self-study: preparation for progress assessment test 2: 1 hr.
Individual self-study: preparation for final exam: 4 hrs.
Group self-study: preparation for oral exam: 2 hrs.
Week 16 (scheduled assessment week)
In-class activities: 2 hrs.
Assessment: oral exam: (15 mins.)
Assessment: final exam (1.45 hrs).
Distance/self-study activities: 9 hrs.
Individual self-study: preparation for final exam: 4 hrs.
Individual self-study: preparation for oral exam: 2 hrs.
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9. Assessment
Type
Assessment procedure
Written assignments (*)
NR
Progress-assessment tests
NR
Oral exams
Final
exam
R
Use of English
R
Listening comprehension
R
Reading comprehension
R
Weight
Assessment criteria
(pathways)
Variables to be assessed at a B2 level:
- Language correctness
- Lexical accuracy
- Fulfilment of communicative task
Degree of acquisition of
Language structures and specific
vocabulary introduced.
Variables to be assessed at a B2 level:
- Pronunciation
- Fluency and interaction
-Vocabulary range
-Adequate register and style
- Fulfilment of communicative task.
-Acquisition of specific language
structures and vocabulary introduced.
-Understanding of two tourism oral
texts, from various speakers at B2 level
- Ability to skim (identifying main
ideas) and to scan (finding specific
information quickly) tourism related
text at a B2 level.
Total 100
R: Retrievable
A
B
20
20
30
--
18
18
--
30
16
16
16
16
100
100
NR: Not retrievable
(*) NOTICE: Without prejudice to the provisions of Art. 33 of the UIB Academic Regulation (ACORD
NORMATIU del dia 18 de març de 2016 pel qual es modifica l'Acord normatiu 10959/2014, de 18 de
març, pel qual s'aprova el Reglament acadèmic de la Universitat) any form of fraud in the evaluation or,
in particular, plagiarism (i.e. the deliberate use of someone else’s text without acknowledging its source)
in the written assignments will be penalized with a ‘fail’ in the assignment where plagiarized text had
been detected.
9.1
Retakes
Candidates who do not pass the subject in the ordinary period of assessment will sit for
a retake exam covering the activities designated as ‘retrievable’ (R). The final grade will
result from averaging the grade obtained with the grades obtained during the ordinary
period of assessment in the ‘not retrievable’ (NR) activities. Unless otherwise specified,
the retake exam will include the following papers:
Assessment
procedure
Oral exam
Use of English
Listening
comprehension
Reading
comprehension
Assessment criteria
Variables to be assessed at a B2 level:
- Pronunciation
- Fluency and interaction
-Vocabulary range
-Adequate register and style
- Fulfilment of communicative task.
-Acquisition of specific language structures
and vocabulary introduced.
-Understanding of two tourism oral texts, from
various speakers at B2 level
- Ability to skim (identifying main ideas) and
to scan (finding specific information quickly)
tourism related text at a B2 level.
Total
Weight
18
-16
16
100
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10.
Recommended bibliography, resources and additional materials.
10.1. Basic bibliography
Walker, R. (2009) Oxford English for Careers: Tourism 3: student’s book, Oxford:
Oxford University Press.
http://www.oup.com/elt/global/products/oefc/
10.2.
Complementary bibliography
Ashley, A. (2003) The Oxford Handbook of Commercial Correspondence, Oxford:
Oxford University Press.
Downes, C. (2008) Cambridge English for Job-hunting. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press.
Duckworth, M. (2003): Business Grammar & Practice. Oxford, Oxford
University Press.
Goodale, M. (2005) The language of meetings. Boston: Thomson Heinle
Handford, M (2010) The Language of Business Meetings Cambridge:
Cambridge Univerity Press
10.2.2 Dictionaries
Alcaráz Varó, E. et al. (2006) Diccionario de términos de turismo y de ocio.
Inglés-Español/Spanish-English. Barcelona: Ariel Referencia.
Collins COBUILD English Dictionary for Advanced Learners (3rd edition),
Glasgow: Harper Collins.
Diccionario Oxford Study (Spanish-English, English-Spanish), Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 2006
Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary, Sixth Edition, Oxford: Oxford
University Press ,2012.
Smith, Collins et al. (2014) Collin's English Dictionary, Collins Publishers,
Glasgow: Collins Publishers.
10.2.3 Dicctionaries online
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http://dictionary.cambridge.org/
http://travelfurther.net/dictionaries (American-English/ English-American dictionary)
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/Oxford+English+Dictionary+Online
www.diccionario.com
www.dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/business-english
www.foreignword.com/dictionary/business (English-Spanish; Spanish–English)
www.macmillandictionaryonline.com
www.wordreference.con
10.2.3. Grammar
Eastwood, J. (2002) Oxford Practice Grammar, Oxford: Oxford University
Press.
Hewing, Martin (2013) Advanced Grammar in Use Third edition, Cambridge
University Press
Murphy, R. (2012) English Grammar in Use. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press.
Swan, M. (2005) Practical English Usage, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Oxford English Grammar Course: Advanced (with answers cd-rom pack)
(2011). Oxford University press.
10.2.4 Grammar online
http://www.edufind.com/english-grammar/english-grammar-guide/
http://www.englishpage.com/grammar/
www.better-english.com/grammar.htm (Business English Grammar Exercises)
10.3
Otros recursos
10.3.1 Aula virtual EUTFM
Esquemas y apuntes complementarios
Hipervínculos a sitios web recomendados.
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Asignatura __________________________________________ Código ____________
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Assessment procedure
Type
Written assignments
Progress-assessment tests
Oral exams
Use of English
Listening comprehension
Final
exam
Reading comprehension
NR
NR
R
R
R
R
Total
Weight
(pathways)
A
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30
18
-16
16
100
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30
16
16
100
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