Prerequisites: to have relevant knowledge
of English for specific purposes
Aims
of the subject:
to acquire an adequate level of ESP oriented towards students field of study.
Annotation:
The aim of the course is to introduce students to English for specific purposes – Tourism. The development of diverse language-cultural settings, that is the Czech and Anglosaxon, will be analyse and compared. The students will master English for Tourism which will be applied to the study of foreign tourism literature and which will be used in the students´ own projects.
Subject
matter:
1. Unit 1 - Types of holiday
2. Unit 2 – Career in tourism industry
3. Unit 3 – Trends in tourism
4. Unit 4– Where people travel
5. Unit 5 – Travel agencies
6. Advising a client - scenario
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7. Unit 6 – Hoteliers
8. Unit 7 – Tourist
destinations
9. Unit 8 – Responsible tourism
10. Unit 8 – Safe tourism
11. Pros and cons in the
development of tourism
12. Czech Republic as a tourist
destination
13. Final consolidation
Assessment
strategy and method: three continuous assessments – reading comprehension, listening
comprehension, essay
Compulsory
reading:
English for International
Tourism. Miriam Jacobs, Peter Strutt. London:
Longman.1997.
Beaver, Alan (2002). A Dictionary of Travel and
Tourism Terminology.
CABI Publishing.
Recommended literature:
Harding.K.1998.
Going International. OUP.
Dictionary of Hotels,Tourism
and Catering Management. Peter
Collin Publishing. 1996
Test Your Business English: Hotel and Catering. Alison
Pohl. Penguin.1996.
Burns.P.M.
1999. An Introduction to Tourism and Anthropology.Routledge.
Harrison, David (ed) (2001) Tourism and the less
developed world : issues and
case studies.
London : CABI publishing.
Meethan, Kevin (2001) Tourism in Global Society:
place, culture, consumption. New
York: Palgrave.
Pásková, Martina a Josef
Zelenka (2002) Cestovní ruch. Výkladový slovník. Česká republika:
Ministerstvo pro místní rozvoj.
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Information on combined form of studies |
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Subjekt: Practical English
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Other
sources: -iExam
– applying for exam -syllabus
including literature - ISIT Consultation hours within 12 hours, plus granting
credits. Instructions
for individual study will be
disseminated during the first
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