Tourist Guide - Bilingual

Course Description

Welcome to GEOS! This course will help you expand and extend your knowledge of English and the tourism and hospitality industry. You will be given the opportunity to practice your skills in real-life situations through conversation and listening activities. You will learn common everyday expressions and idioms to help you work in four different areas: Greetings and introductions with hospitality industry staff, at the airport, the hotel stay, and sightseeing excursions.

TEXTBOOK:

High Season: English for the Hotel and Tourist Industry

Course Objectives

By the end of the course, we hope that you will be able to:

1. Communicate fluently and with confidence in most common guide situations.
2. Increase your tourism and guide vocabulary repertoire.
3. Develop increasing fluency and sophistication when using English for more specific purposes like trouble-shooting.
4. Refine and expand the use of grammatical functions.
5. Expand your reading skills necessary to interpret authentic and increasingly more technical articles written by English speakers.
6. Develop your critical thinking skills needed and required in the English speaking hospitality industry.
7. Develop effective listening skills when communicating and relating with people.

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