ENG - Unit 1 201600321

Subsecretaría de Calidad Turística Dirección de Formación en Turismo CICLO DE FORMACIÓN VIRTUAL CONTINUA

CICLO DE FORMACIÓN VIRTUAL CURSO AUTOGESTIONADO

INGLÉS TURÍSTICO

UNIT 1: TOURISM!

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Índice 1. Welcome............................................................................................................... 3 2. Personal Pronouns.................................................................................................. 5 3. Possessive Adjectives ............................................................................................. 6 4. 5W ....................................................................................................................... 8 5. Present Simple ...................................................................................................... 8 6. Family members .................................................................................................... 9 7. Greetings and introductions..................................................................................... 9 7.1. Informal............................................................................................................. 9 7.2. Formal ............................................................................................................. 10 7.3. Every day......................................................................................................... 10 7.4. Special days ..................................................................................................... 11 8. Numbers, days, months and seasons...................................................................... 11 9. Present Continuous .............................................................................................. 12 9.1. What are you doing?.......................................................................................... 12 10. Jobs in tourism ................................................................................................. 14 10.1. Qualities for the job ........................................................................................ 14 11. Preview of Unit 2............................................................................................... 15 11.1. Vocabulary: Industry sectors ........................................................................... 15 12. Bibliography ..................................................................................................... 16

OBJETIVOS: herramientas idiomáticas básicas necesarias para los profesionales y trabajadores de la actividad turística , cualquiera sea el Proporcionar

campo donde desarrollen su carrera, desde la información turística hasta la gestión y promoción de destinos y actividades turísticas, pasando por empresas de intermediación, alojamiento y transporte. Por este motivo, se tratarán distintos temas afines teniendo en cuenta situaciones comunicativas reales ampliando así su habilidad de comprensión mediante las destrezas comunicativas de escucha, lectura y escritura.

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Welcome to the first unit of the English Course Hello! & ¡Hola! Una de las formas más usuales de iniciar una conversación es saludando con un “Hola”. Pero si queremos dirigirnos a un interlocutor anglosajón, debemos recurrir al “Hello”. La primera vez que aparece escrito el término hello es en el año 1833, mientras que la palabra hola data de 1552.

Let’ s start! Personal pronouns, possessive adjectives and verb to be.

HELLO, I AM MIKE.

SHE IS MY FRIEND. HER NAME IS LISA.

HI, HOW ARE YOU?

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HE IS MY FRIEND. HIS NAME IS

HELLO, NICE TO MEET YOU!

MIAOWWWWW

IT IS BOB. IT IS A CAT

THEY ARE LISA and STEVE. BOB IS THEIR CAT

WE ARE FRIENDS. WHO ARE YOU? WHAT IS YOUR NAME?

Complete: I AM……………………….. = MY NAME IS……………………

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Personal Pronouns Personal pronouns I--- We - - -  You - - -  He - - -  She - - -  They - - -

Possessive adjectives My Our Your His Her Their

Examples I like my house. We like our house. You like your house. He likes his house. She likes her house. They like their house.



It - - -  Its

Ciudad Universitaria (= it) is famous for its university.

OUR HOUSE

MY HOUSE

YOUR HOUSE HIS HOUSE

HER HOUSE

THEIR HOUSE

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Possessive Adjectives We use possessive adjectives + noun.

MIKE

HIS CAR

His car = Mike’ s car.

HIS PLANE

His plane = Mike’ s plane.

Her burger = Lisa’ s burger

His vehicles = Mike’ s vehicles

HER FOOD

LISA

HER BURGER

HIS VEHICLES

HER CAKE

Her cake = Lisa’ s cake

Her food = Lisa’ s food.

MIKE AND LISA

THEIR LUGGAGE

Their luggage = Mike and Lisa’ s luggage

THEIR FLIGHT

Their flight = Mike and Lisa’s flight

THEIR HOLIDAY

Their holidays = Mike and Lisa

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1. Verb to be My name is Mike. I’ m 35 years old.

I’ m interested in tourism.

I’ m from Buenos Aires.

My favourite sports are football and swimming.

I’ m a travel agent.

My favourite color is blue.

My father is a doctor and my mother is a journalist.

Positive I am

 (I’m

not)  (he’ s) He Is  (she’ s) She  (it’ s) It We are  (we’ re)  (you’ re) you They  (they’ re)

Negative I am  (I’ m not) He is She It We are you They

Short form

’ s not or he isn’ t)  (she’ s not or she isn’ t)  (it’ s not or it isn’ t)  (we’ re not or we aren’ t )  (you’ re not or you aren’ t )  (they’ re not or they aren’ t)  (he

Question Am I? Is

he? she?

Are we? you? They?

Short form

Examples: I’ m 35 years old. My sister is 30. My sister is ill. She’ s in bed. I’ m tired, but I’ m not hungry. Mike isn’t interested in art. He’s in interested in tourism.

Those people aren’ t English. They’re Argentinian. It’ s sunny today, but it isn’ t warm. It’s ten o’clock. You’ re late again. My sister and Lisa are good friends.

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5W WHERE? -Where are you from?

WHY?

-I'm from Ar entina.

-This hotel isn’ t very ood.

WHAT? -What colour is your

WHEN? -When is winter in

5W

car?

HOW?

Ar entina?

WHO? -Who is she?

-These postcards are nice. How much are

-She is my sister.

Short forms

Where’ s = Where is

What’ s = What is

Who’ s = Who is

How’ s = How is

Present Simple We use the present simple to talk about things in general. We use it to say something happens all the time or repeatedly, or that something is true in general. We use do/does to make questions and negative sentences.

Positive I  work He She  It drives We you  drive They

Question Do I? Does Do

He? She? It? We? You? They?

Negative  work I don’ t He She doesn’ It t We You don’ t

drive

drive

They

Remember: I work … but He works … They drive … My sister drives. Examples: Where do you come from? What does this mean?

I get up at 8 o’ clock every morning. Julie usually goes away 2 or 3 times a year. He doesn’ t do anything to help. I don’ t go away often.

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Family members

Grandfather

Grandmother

Uncle

Father

Mother

Sister-in-law

Brother

You

Niece

Nephew

Son

Aunt

Uncle

Sister

Cousin

Cousin

Daughter

Son-in-law

Grandson

Granddaughte r

Greetings and introductions 1. Informal Hello, I’ m Susan Collins.

Hi, Susan. I’ m Lauren Nash.

When we leave someone we usually both say Goodbye and perhaps,

See you soon!

See you soon is quite informal.

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2. Formal Hello, my name is Gregory Stone.

I’ m Lauren Sanders .

Nice to meet you, Lauren. Nice to meet you.

3. Every day

Good morning.

Goodnight!

Thank you

Good afternoon.

Good evening.

When someone goes to bed, we usually say Goodnight . We sometimes also say Sleep well. Don’ t say Goodnight when you arrive somewhere, only when you leave.

If you ask for something, you usually say Please. If someone does something nice for you, you say Thank you.

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4. Special days Happy Birthday!

Merry Christmas!

Happy New Year!

Happy Christmas! When it is someone’ s birthday.

On (or near) December 25th.

On (or near) January 1st.

If someone is going to do something difficult (for example, take an exam or have an interview for a job), we say GOOD LUCK! If someone has done something special (for example, one well in an exam, got a new job, had a baby), we say CONGRATULATIONS! or WELL DONE!

Numbers, days, months and seasons Months: January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November December.

Days Numbers:

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Numbers 1: one – 2: two - 3: three – 4: four – 5: five - 6: six - 7: seven - 8: eight 9: nine - 10: ten - 11: eleven – 12: twelve - 13: thirteen - 14: fourteen 15: fifteen - 16: sixteen - 17: seventeen - 18: eighteen - 19: nineteen - 20: twenty – 21: twenty-one - 22: twenty-two – 23: twenty-three – 24: twenty-four – 25: twenty-five – 26: twenty-six - 27: twenty-seven – 28: twenty-eight – 29: twenty-nine -30: thirty - 31: thirty-one … 40: forty – 41: forty-one … 50: fifty – 51: fifty-one … 60: sixty - 61: sixty-one … 70: seventy – 71:seventy-one … 80:eighty – 81: eighty-one… 90: ninety– 91: ninety-one… 100: one hundred.

Seasons

SUMMER

WINTER

AUTUMN

SPRING

Present Continuous 1) What are you doing?

“Mike is in his car. He is driving to the airport.” This means: he is driving now , at the time of speaking. The action is not finished.

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Present continuous

Present simple

We use the continuous for things happening at or around the time of speaking. The action is not complete.

We use the simple for things in general or things that happen repeatedly.

I am doing now

I do now

I am doing

past future

Example

I do

past future

Example

Kate wants to visit Italy, so she’ s learning Italian.

Most people learn to swim when they are children.

Listen to those people. What language are they speaking?

Excuse me, do you speak English?

Let's go out. It

isn't raining now.

It doesn’t rain very much in summer.

The population of the world is increasing very fast.

Every day the population of the world increases by about 200,000 people.

We use the continuous for temporary situations:

We use the simple for permanent situations:

I’ m living with some friends until I find a place of my own.

My parents live in London.

PRESENT CONTINUOUS: Am / is / are + ing am I driving. is He / She / It is doing. are We / you / they speaking.

IMPORTANT! The action is not necessary happening at the same time of speaking. I’ m reading a really good book at the moment.

Mike is not reading the book at the same time of speaking. He means that he has started it, but has not finished it yet. He is in the middle of reading it.

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PRESENT CONTINUOUS: periods around now (today, this year, this week, etc.) Example You’ re working hard today . The company I work for isn’ t

doing so well this year .

Jobs in tourism

Pilot

Flight attendant

Airline check-in clerk

Hotel manager

Tour guide

Waiter

Chef

Resort rep

Porter (UK)/ Bellboy (US)

Tourism information officer

Travel agent

Receptionist

Qualities for the job + Positive Calm Organized Friendly Good at languages Creative Extrovert Practical Flexible Good at explaining things Good at dealing with people Know how to use computers Punctual Hardworking

� Negative Nervous Disorganized Unfriendly Bad at languages Lazy Shy Careless

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Preview of Unit 2: Vocabulary: Industry sectors The travel and tourism industry has different sectors.

Places that tourists want to visit. Ways of travelling between different places, such as trains and airplanes. Places to stay, such as hotels, and the food and services that are provided there. People or companies that organize and assemble the different parts of holiday or tour. People or companies that sell the holiday or tour to customers. Government organizations that promote and develop tourism.

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Bibliografía: Walker, Robin and Harding, Keith: Oxford English for Careers: TOURISM 1, Oxford University Press. Jones, Leo: WELCOME! English for the travel and tourism industry, Cambridge University Press. Warshawsky, Diane and Byrd, Donald: Spectrum 1: A Communicative English Course, Prentice Hall Regents. Naylor, Helen and Murphy, Raymond: Essential Grammar in Us e, Second Edition, Cambridge University Press. Murphy, Raymond: English Grammar in Use, Third Edition, Cambridge University Press.

Practice English with Listening ♫♪

Complete the test on the online course, then go to Part 2!

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