Parque de Europa 2013/2014: Tourist Accommodation Management

Hi, students,
I have created the following presentation with all the photos I had regarding this course.
I hope you like it!
Good luck!
Mary Sea

PARQUE DE EUROPA 2013/2014: Travel Agencies and Events Management

Hello, students,

With all the photos I had, I have created a presentation for all of us to remember the visit to Parque de Europa last February.

I hope you enjoy it.

GASTRONOMY

In order to study this topic and some popular types of fruit, vegetables, meat, fish, seafood, etc. I recommend you to do the following activities. You don't need to learn them all but you should know the most important ones as far as Spanish and English gastronomy are concerned.

How about practising vocabulary related to meat, poultry, game and offal? Click in here and have fun.

In order to practise vocabulary regarding vegetables, herbs and seasoning, you can practise by doing the following activities.









Click here to review vocabulary regarding fish and seafood.

Katy Perry: Roar

Listen to the following song and guess the lyrics.


 Now click here and practise with Lyrics Training.

Course satisfaction questionnaire

How have you felt this year regarding the English lessons?
Please fill in the following questionnaire.

British vs American English

Here you have another exercise in order to practise different vocabulary in both American and British English.

Conference equipment: Vocabulary

 

 Here you a have another vocabulary set regarding conference equipment. Remember you can also create your own set. I hope you find it useful in order to study this topic. Have fun!!!

Oral Presentations: Rubric

Have a look at the following rubric. It will help you to prepare your oral presentation as you will see the different items which will be taken into account when evaluating your presentation.

rubric_for_oral_presentation_blog.docx by dgmmm

Madrid: Tourist Attractions

From your point of view, which are the most important tourist attractions in Madrid?

Choose one, find out some information about it, write a short description and, when you are ready, click here to listen to the instructions, choose a picture which represents the attraction you have chosen and speak about it.

T:  click here.

A bit of practice

Once we have been practising relatives clauses quite a lot, you are ready to do the following test. This is the link to the test.

Free time activities and places: Vocabulary

In order to practise vocabulary related to free time
activities, different kinds of entertainment tourists can
carry out on holiday and the places where they are
practised, do the following exercises.

Travel-Deal Destinations for 2014

Please, read the following article from the Destinations Travel Magazine by next Monday so that we can speak about it in class (Click on the picture below).

• Which of the destinations mentioned would you like to visit? Why? 
• Would you add any others? Which ones?

Project: Tourist attractions 2014

Here you have the document with the guidelines you need to do the project, which is compulsory.
Good luck! =)

PROJECT

A TOURIST ATTRACTIONS QUESTIONNAIRE

Assignment: This project should be carried out at one of the top tourist attractions we can find in Madrid. You must interview a person and ask for permission to video-record the interview. If not, at least ask for permission to record the sound. I recommend you to do it in pairs but each student has to carry out an interview. Try to interact with the interviewee. Some interviews will be published on the blog 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 chosen, opinion about tourist attractions…)

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

Deadline: By Friday 7th February 2014. You will have to send me or hand in the files (with an extension I can see and listen to) and the transcription of the dialogues. The files have to be named as follows: 

• yourname_surname_tourist_attractions_age_13_14 (Students of Travel Agencies and Events Management). 
• yourname_surname_tourist_attractions_gatd_13_14 (Students of Tourist Accommodation Management).

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 Tourist Accommodation Management / Travel Agencies and Events Management / Tourism at Hotel Escuela High School, Madrid. We are doing a project about tourist attractions in Madrid. 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:

1. Where are you from?
2. How long are you staying in Madrid?
3. What is the purpose of your visit?
4. Where are you staying (type of accommodation)?
5. What monuments or places have you visited so far?
6. Which one did you like most? Why?
7. Could you give us a short description that summarises its main features?
8. Did it fulfil your expectations? If not, why not?
9. From you point of view, which are the top five visitor attractions in Madrid?

Student recommends one or two more places to visit (one of them has to be a ‘natural attraction’).

         Thanks for your help. Enjoy your stay.

Questionnaire: Oral production in the cloud I

Please, click here to answer a questionnaire regarding your thoughts about English language learning in order to provide you with some tools to practise your oral production.

Tourist attractions: Vocabulary

Click here to study and review vocabulary related to tourist attractions.

There are many different ways to do it. Test yourself! I'm sure you'll enjoy it.

Practise listening

As some of you asked me about some more material in order to improve your listening skills, here you have a couple of videos taken from BBC Learning English.

Both of them have to do with topics regarding tourism, they are short and easy to follow.

The first one deals with Venice and the second one is about floods in Europe, a natural disaster.

Protecting Venice

Floods in Europe

Merry Christmas!!!

Hi, students and friends, I wish you a very Merry Christmas and all the best for 2014!

Please click on here.

I hope you like this one too.

 Best wishes.

Applying for a job 2013 - Europass

Have you ever heard of the Curriculum Vitae Europass?

It is a EU initiative to increase transparency of qualification and mobility of citizens in Europe. It aims to be a Life Long Learning Portfolio of documents containing the descriptions of all learning achievements, official qualifications, work results, skills and competences, acquired over time, along with the related documentation. The aim is to make a person's skills and qualifications clearly understood throughout Europe.

 Once you know how it works you can either fill in yor CV now here or download  the template, instructions and examples here.

These documents can also be very useful:

For students of 'Tourist Accommodation Management':
EDS in Tourist Accommodation Management

For students of 'Travel Agencies and Events Management':
EDS in Travel Agencies & Events Management

When it is ready, send me your CV by email. The name of the file should be: 

• For Tourist Accommodation Management students: cv_tam_2013_yoursurnameinitialofyourname

• For Travel Agencies and Events Management students: cv_ttaaem_2013_yoursurnameinitialofyourname
 

Deadline: By Friday 15th November 2013

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.