Foreign Language IV – English

Base Knowledge

N/A

Teaching Methodologies

The classes will have practical exercises – reading comprehension exercises, grammar exercises, written production exercises and oral production exercises. There will also be theoretical classes. The active participation in classes is encouraged and the students will have to elaborate an oral presentation (30%) . The students are given the choice between continuous evaluation (one written test 70% and an oral presentation 30%) and final evaluation (written examination 100%).

Learning Results

Consolidating the oral and written skills in English required to correctly and effectively communicating in a professional context; – Mastering advanced syntactic structures through the reading and comprehension of oral and written texts; – Increasing and mastering the use of monolingual and bilingual dictionaries when studying the contents and researching for information; – Expanding the specific lexicon of tourism with a view to communicating in a more specialised and fluent way; – Becoming familiar with UNESCO’s world heritage and being able to describe briefly some sites and monuments; – Researching tourist destinations and trends in the industry by using specialised magazines and websites; – Achieving level B2-C1 of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages.

Program

Creating an extensive lexical inventory and revising some grammar structures which students have previously learned. The vocabulary study and expansion will focus particularly on issues providing general knowledge directly and indirectly connected to tourism, such as national and international heritage and culture, geography, social and environmental issues, travelling, and world news and politics. Reading material taken from newspapers, magazines, websites and books will be provided to the students.
– Reading: Pronunciation, skimming, intensive reading, meaning in context.
– Speaking: Describing sites, interacting verbally, discussing given topics.
– Writing: Summarising, translating.
– Vocabulary expansion: employment, accommodation, transportation, political geography.
– Grammar: phrasal verbs; inversion; verb tenses; modal verbs; prepositions; if-clauses.

Curricular Unit Teachers

Grading Methods

Exam
  • - Exam - 100.0%
Continuing evaluation
  • - Frequency - 70.0%
  • - Individual and/or Group Work - 30.0%

Internship(s)

NAO

Bibliography

BERLITZ, Portugal, Pocket Guide, 2010.
BONNEVILLE, PATRICK and Philippe HEMONO – The World Heritage (UNESCO’s classified sites).
HARRAP’s English Thesaurus.
HEWINGS, Martin – Advanced Grammar in Use, CUP.
LONGMAN’s Dictionary of English Language and Culture.
MACMILLAN, Phrasal Verbs Plus, Cambridge University Press. MACMILLAN’s English Dictionary for Advanced Learners.
National Geographic Traveler.
UNESCO World Heritage List (unesco.org).
WYATT, Rawdon – Check Your English Vocabulary for Leisure, Travel and Tourism, A & C Black, 2012.