This is an English for specific purposes course for second-year tourism students. Students will further their study of vocabulary by focusing on air transport, cruises, itineraries, phrasal verbs, human resources, and American and British English. Speaking and listening skills will be enhanced through in-class excercises based upon real life professional contexts. Finally, grammar and technical writing skills will be developed in the areas of explaining procedures and itineraries, brochure writing, and professional employment applications.
Contingency plan
1. Modifications to the contents: None.
2. Methodologies
*Teaching methodologies that are maintained: All teaching methodologies will be maintained.
*Teaching methodologies that are modified: None.
3. Mechanisms for personalized attention to students: Full and Part Time Students and Students Exempt from Class Participation: Tutorials will be scheduled as needed through Teams. Teams Chat will be available 24 hours a day and will be responded to in a timely manner. At the beginning of the course, all of the class materials will be made available via Teams Files, including the submission dates for hand-in assignments. In addition, a weekly planning of class activities will be placed on Teams Calandar and the programming of assignments and corrected exercises will be available through Teams Assignments. Supplemental material, like practice exams and exercises, will also be provided during the course. Likewise, all important notices will be communicated through Teams Posts.
4. Modifications in the evaluation: 1. The final course review activity representing 40% of the final grade will be administered through Teams to students in remote locations. 2. The final oral presentation representing 30% of the final grade will be public and recorded via Teams. All other activities will remain as is.
*Evaluation observations: None
5. Modifications to the bibliography or webgraphy: None.
(*)The teaching guide is the document in which the URV publishes the information about all its courses. It is a public document and cannot be modified. Only in exceptional cases can it be revised by the competent agent or duly revised so that it is in line with current legislation.
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