Hochschule Luzern - Ausbildung - HFT Höhere Fachschule für Tourismus - Studienplan

English Communication
Course Description	The course is designed to enable students to communicate effectively in tourism settings at the upper intermediate level, to strengthen their ability to write and comprehend a wide range of relevant business texts, and to present material confidently in front of an audience.
Learning Objectives	Upon completion of the course students will be able to: give a formal presentation and lead a discussion on a tourism topic actively participate in a discussion on a tourism topic demonstrate accurate and appropriate use of idioms, vocabulary, and grammar understand and discuss a tourism article recently sourced from an English newspaper correctly apply and pronounce the specific tourism and management vocabulary, idioms, and expressions encountered in the course materials and other media apply the correct grammatical forms write standard texts encountered in the travel industry
Content	Written skills Students will develop their technical writing skills: spelling, sentence structure, punctuation, and style write letters, faxes, e-mails suitable for a range of settings encountered at the workplace write promotion and marketing texts for specific tourism products gain an introductory understanding of legal writing write a cover letter, CV and reference Spoken skills Students will give a 10-minute presentation on a tourism topic participate in class discussions Vocabulary Students will develop tourism-specific vocabulary management vocabulary General skills Students will attain a upper intermediate level of grammar listen to tourism articles and answer questions about the content read tourism articles sourced from newspapers or journals
Prerequisites	Cambridge First Certificate (A, B, C), or an equivalent level
Teaching Methods	Lecture and discussions; pair, group, and class activities; role plays; presentations; homework; self study
Resources	English Grammar in Use (4^th ed.) by Raymond Murphy ISBN978-0-521-53289-1 Additional grammar exercises Business Spotlight: English for International Communication Tourism and English communication books, current articles Handouts
Assessments	Students will complete a written exam covering material from the class, including writing, comprehension, vocabulary and grammar an oral exam that includes delivering a prepared presentation and answering questions on an article
Proficiency and/or Advanced Students	Students who have a Proficiency and/or Advanced certificate have the choice of submitting a project of 2,000 words. This means they would not need to attend classes – except the first and last class. They must obtain the instructor’s approval and discuss the topic. By submitting a project at the last class, they would be exempted them from the written part of the final exam, but not from the presentation.