JUST GIVE ME A REASON (BY PINK & NATE RUESS)

Click on the image and practise listening with this song by Pink and Nate Ruess. It is the same song we have been listening to in class.

INTERVIEW AT BARAJAS AIRPORT 2013

This is a compulsory task for students of the formative cycle of Travel Agencies and Events Management and an optional task for students of the formative cycle of Tourist Accommodation Management.

Here you have the document with the guidelines you need to do the project.

Good luck and enjoy it!

PROJECT

A PASSENGER SURVEY AT BARAJAS AIRPORT

 

Assignment: This project should be carried out at Barajas airport. You (each student) must interview one person and ask for permission to video-record the interview. If not, at least ask permission to record the sound. I recommend you to do it in pairs but each student has to carry out an interview. Some interviews will be published on the blog http://www.agr8tourblog4u.blogspot.com/ for educational purposes.

Aim: To use English as a tool for communication and to get to know the people who visit our country (nationalities, reasons for travelling, accommodation, expectations…)

Assessment criteria: It will be graded from 1 to 10 and will be part of the mark of the oral skills.

Deadline: By Friday 15^th November. You will have to send me the files (with an extension I can see and listen to) and the transcription of the dialogues. We'll probably do it through the Moodle platform. The files have to be named as follows: yourname_surname_age_13_14. This assignment won't be corrected if it doesn't follow these rules.

You can begin like this:

Good morning/afternoon/evening. I’m a student of Travel Agencies and Events Management / Tourist Accommodation Management / Tourism at Hotel Escuela High School, Madrid. We are doing a project about why people travel. Would you mind answering a few questions? If you don’t mind, we would like to record the interview as a class practice. Thanks a lot.

POSSIBLE QUESTIONS: CHECK-IN/DEPARTURE AREA

1. Where are you from?
2. Where are you travelling to? What’s the name of the airport?
3. How long have you been here?
4. Have you been in Spain before?
5. Where did you stay? (Accommodation)
6. What’s a hotel for you?

a) A bed for the night	¨	c) A bit of luxury once in a while	¨
b) The office when away from the office	¨	d) Home far from home	¨

7. What is/was the purpose of your visit?
8. How often do you travel abroad?
9. Which countries have you visited?
10. What did you like most about Spain?

         Thanks for your help. Have a nice trip.

ORAL PRESENTATIONS: TIPS AND LINKERS

In this document you can see some tips and linkers which will help you when dealing with oral presentations.

GIVING DIRECTIONS

In order to practise giving directons, visit this page. There you will find an explanation with the main phrases, verbs of movement prepostions to use and some exercises. Do the exercises and check yourself.

Vocabulary: Synonyms

Have a look at the picture below and find seven synonyms related to Tourism. You can zoom it to see it better.

MAKING RESERVATIONS

Here you have a very useful video that will help you taking reservations on the phone when being at the front desk.

WAKE ME UP WHEN SEPTEMBER ENDS (by Green Day)

Here you have the video of the song "Wake Me Up When September Ends", by Green Day.



If you want to keep on practising listening skills with this song you can try lyricstraining. Remember you can choose the level of difficulty.

 I hope you learn and have fun!