COURSE UNIT TITLE

: BUSINESS ENGLISH I

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
TUR 3015 BUSINESS ENGLISH I ELECTIVE 3 0 0 3

Offered By

Tourism and Hotel Management

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR CEYLAN ALKAN

Offered to

Tourism Management
Tourism and Hotel Management

Course Objective

The course aims to increase knowledge and competences of students concerning spoken and written communication.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Increasing vocabulary related to different fields of tourism sector (accomodation, travel etc.)
2   Ability to read and understand basic documents related to work life
3   Ability to know and apply fundamental expressions related to daily life and professional life
4   Ability to use terms specific to tourism in oral and written communication
5   Ability to know and use fundamental grammar rules

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Introduction
2 Question forms- Professions in tourism sector and their duties
3 Tenses in English: Simple Present Tense and Present Continous Tense
4 Tourism sector: Fundamental concepts and words
5 Hospitality sector: Fundamental concepts and words (Description of a hotel, facilities at a hotel, activities at a hotel etc.)
6 Hospitality sector: Fundamental concepts and words (Making reservation)
7 Midterm exam
8 Midterm exam
9 Speaking on the phone, taking notes
10 CV preparation, application for a job
11 Past Tense
12 Tour operators and travel agencies: Fundamental concepts and words
13 Giving and taking destination information
14 Destinations: reading exercices

Recomended or Required Reading

Rod Revell & Trish Stott, English for Hotel and Catering Industry, Oxford University Press.
BBC Learn English, http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Lecture and assignment

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 FIN FINAL EXAM
3 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.40 + FIN * 0.60
4 RST RESIT
5 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.40 + RST * 0.60


*** Resit Exam is Not Administered in Institutions Where Resit is not Applicable.

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

To be announced.

Language of Instruction

English

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

ilkay.tas@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

Tuesday, 16.00-17.00

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 12 3 36
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 12 1 12
Preparation for midterm exam 1 15 15
Preparation for final exam 1 20 20
Midterm 1 1 1
Midterm 1 1 1
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 85

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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