ENGLISH FOR TOURISM AND HOSPITALITY COURSE
CONTENTS
Unit 1: What is tourism
Unit 2: What’s your kind of tourism?
Unit 3: Hospitality research (optional)
Unit 4: Careers in tourism and hospitality
Unit 5: Tourism marketing
Unit 6: The business of events tourism (optional)
Unit 7: The business of fun
Unit 8: Hospitality marketing
Unit 9: Tourism and culture (optional)
Unit 10: Managing people and money (optional)
Unit 11: External influences (optional)
Unit 12: Information, strategy and change (optional)
VOCABULARY & SKILLS
o Vocabulary: Tourism and Hospitality
o Listening:
 Making the most of lectures
 Making perfect lecture notes
 Using the Cornell note-taking system
o Speaking:
 Speaking from notes
 Signpost language in a lecture
 Seminar language
o Reading:
 Doing reading research
o Writing:
 Writing out notes in full
 Using topic sentences to summarize
 Developing ideas in a paragraph
 Choosing the correct writing plan (4 types)
 Writing introductions and conclusions
 Writing a bibliography/reference list
CLASS SCHEDULE:
Week 1: Introduction – Unit 1 (1.3)
Week 2: Unit 1 (cont.) & Unit 2
Week 3: Unit 4 – Reading 1 “Footprints in the sands of time”
(Going international – Unit 1, Section 2)
Week 4: Introduction to Marketing for Hospitality and
Tourism
Week 5: Unit 5 – Reading 2 “Marketing and Promotion”
(English for Careers Tourism 1 – Unit 8)
Week 6: Unit 7 – Reading 3 “Theme Parks” (English for
Careers Tourism 3 – Unit 8)
Week 7: Unit 8 & Sample Test
Week 8 & 9: Oral Presentation
MATERIALS
 English for Tourism and Hospitality in Higher
Education Studies
 Extra Readings (Going International, English for
Careers Tourism…)
ASSESSMENT
MIDTERM GRADE (50%)
1) Attendance (10%)
2) Group Project (20%)
3) Oral Presentation (15%)
FINAL-TERM TEST (50%)
1) Vocabulary: Multiple choice (50 questions) 50 marks
2) Reading: Matching, True/ False, Q&A (20 questions)
30 marks
3) Listening: Gap filling, Q&A (10 questions) 20 marks