Degree | Type | Year | Semester |
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2500894 Tourism | OB | 3 | A |
There are no prerequisites.
Knowledge-based objectives
Students acquire the language content described in section 5 of this document. They also develop communicative competences in oral and written interaction, being able to do the following at the end of the course.
Skills objectives
At the end of the course students should have achieved the following.
As a result of the nature of the learning process, in which all the abilities and skills are constantly related to one another, the objectives listed in section 3 are constantly combined together in the learning process. The language content that is subdivided below into functions, grammatical content, lexical content and phonetic and prosodic content.
Language functions
The following list includes both general language functions and functions specific to the tourism field.
a) Socialising function
b) Informational function
c) Expressive function (feelings and moods)
d) Evaluating function
e) Inductive function
f) Metalinguistic function
Grammar
Students must be able to recognise and appropriately use the following grammatical structures.
The clause
- Coordination and subordination.
- Subordinate clauses: temporal (al), indirect questions (wie, was, wo, ob...), causal clauses (weil), conditional clauses (wenn), relative clauses, clauses with “dass”.
- Order of the components of the clause: Satzklammer, Mittelfeld.
- Coordinate clauses.
Determiners
- Declination of determinate articles: nominative, accusative, dative.
- Declinationof negative articles: nominative, accusative, dative.
- Declination of indeterminate articles: nominative, accusative, dative.
- Declination of possessive articles: nominative, accusative, dative.
Interrogative articles: Was für ein...
Ordinal numbers.
Pronouns
- Indefinite: einem, einem, einer; jedem, jedem, jeder.
- Demonstrative: dem, dem, der; diesem, diesem, dieser.
- Interrogative: welchem, welchem, welche; wem, was.
- Dative personal pronouns: mir, dir, ihm, ihr...
- Reflexives: mich, dich, sich, uns, euch...
Adjectives
- Declination of adjectives: nominative, accusative, dative.
- Comparatives and superlatives.
- Genitive constructions, attributes and adverbial complements.
Verbs
- Verb tenses: simple past (participles), past of modal verbs.
- Reflexive verbs: sich ärgern, sich freuen, sich waschen...
- The verb lassen: most usual meanings.
- Prepositional verbs: denken an, danken für...
- Modal verbs: sollen, müssen, dürfen, können, wollen...
Adverbs
- Deshalb, trotzdem.
- Pronominal adverbs: darüber, damit, daran.
Prepositions
- Accusative prepositions.
- Dative prepositions.
- Other prepositions.
Conjunctions
- Weil, wenn, dass, ob.
Vocabulary
Students mustbe able to recognise, name, recall, explain and choose the appropriate term and use it in the communicative situation where it is required. They must also know how to make correct use of a dictionary and be able to establishsemantic relations between the different categories. The vocabulary content falls mainly into the following areas:
1. Educational system and systems of learning.
2. Everyday environment: home, school, neighbourhood, town.
3. Organising leisure time: journeys.
4. Accommodation: hotel, campsite, boat (cruise ship), rural tourism, etc.
5. Transport: air, sea, river, road.
6. Professional profiles in tourism: travel agent, receptionist, tourist information officer, guide, customer service, entertainer.
7. Client or traveller profile.
8. Job profile and tasks: reception, information, organisation, etc., in agencies, hotels, campsites, tourist offices, transport companies and others.
9. Feelings.
10. Others: daily life (biography).
Phonetics and prosody
Students must recognise and appropriately use the prosodic features (intonation, rhythm, etc.) of the language. They must also recognise and appropriately use the basic sounds and sound symbols of German, as specified below.
1. Sentence stress.
2. Connecting consonants.
3. The stress in composite words.
4. Syllable separation.
5. The musicality of the clause.
Students are encouraged to use the language actively in class and when practicing outside the classroom, to carry out communication tasks similar to those we engage in in real life, in a wide range of situations. Teachers will encourage students to use the language actively to learn; so teachers design and offer activities for students to participate in class and be the centre of their own learning process.
The methodology is basically interactive. The students put all their knowledge of the language into practice in order to accomplish a set of oral and written tasks, both of a general nature and specifically related to tourism. In other words, the emphasis is placed on the learning process rather than on theoretical input from the teachers.
(1) Teacher-directed activities include problem solving, exercises, writing tasks and case studies.
(2) Online tutorials comprise not only email exchanges between teachers and students but also the compulsory viewing of the assessment documents that the teachers post in a virtual environment throughout the semester.
(3) Self-directed study involves learning the theory corresponding to the subject plus the (teacher-directed) practical work on problem solving, exercises, case studies and projects (information search, writing, presentation to an audience).
Title | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
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Type: Directed | |||
Classroom-based | 56.5 | 2.26 | 5, 1, 7, 2, 4, 3, 8, 6 |
Non-classroom based | 56 | 2.24 | 5, 1, 7, 2, 4, 3, 6 |
Type: Supervised | |||
On line | 5 | 0.2 | 3 |
Tutorials classroom-based | 2 | 0.08 | 3 |
Type: Autonomous | |||
Activities | 10 | 0.4 | 5, 1, 7, 2, 4, 3, 6 |
Theory | 10 | 0.4 | 5, 1, 7, 2, 4, 3, 6 |
Continuous assessment
Students must have attended at least 80% of their classes in order to be included in the continuous assessment process.
Continuous assessment activities
Writing and speaking activities
Between three and seven activities are performed. Students may be asked to rewrite their texts to improve on the first version. Speaking activities may be individual or in group, and may take place in the classroom or be recorded and sent in. Depending on the level and the number of students in the class, they could be monologues, dialogues, presentations, etc.
Portfolio
The portfolio contains between six and eight tasks, covering the four language skills. These may be done at home or in class.
The following are examples of these tasks.
Reading worksheets
Transformation exercises
Mini-tests
Self-assessment sheets
Information search
Production of documents
The days allocated to mid-course exams can be used to work on portfolio activities, such as the listening and reading mini-tests.
Mid-course tests
One or more mid-course tests are held on the days set aside for this purpose, consisting of a writing test (one or two tasks) and/or a speaking test. These tests are in the same format as the final exam.
Attitude and participation
Students' degree of effort, attitude, and participation are assessed.
Final continuous assessment test
This test assesses the four skills (reading, writing, listening and speaking) in accordance with the general exam specifications established by the Language Service.
Students must obtain a minimum of 50% in each of the four parts to pass the test and an overall average of 60%. Failure to pass this test means a fail for the course. A pass in this test has a weighting of 40% of the total continuous assessment grade.
The final continual evaluation test takes place on the same day as the final exam.
Final exam
Students who have failed or not taken the continuous assessment are entitled to take a final exam that tests the four language skills. In order to pass the exam, and therefore the course itself, a minimum mark of 50% must be obtained in each skill (each part of the exam) and a minimum 60% overall.
Exam resits
Students with an average score between 3.5 and 4.999 in the final exam or the final continuous assessment test are entitled to a resit.
Resits involve retaking the parts of the exam on which their scores were below the overall average mark, in other words, the parts in which they obtained scores below 60%.
Changing the exam date
Students who cannot take the exam on the set dates due to health, work (trips or other similar obligations) or on compassionate grounds may ask their teacher for a change of date, supplying any necessary documents, and giving notice of at least seven calendar days except in extreme cases such as accidents. If the request is accepted, the exams must still be taken within the period set by the School of Tourism and Hotel Management.
Further points regarding assessment
Students who pass the final exam or the final continuous assessment test are entitled to a Level A2 certificate issued by the Language Service and recognised by the Government of Catalonia.
Students who attend the resit exam are not entitled to the Level A2 certificate in French from the Language Service.
*To pass, students must obtain a pass in the final test. Students must obtain a minimum of 50% in each of the four parts to pass the test and an overall average of 60% to pass.
Title | Weighting | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
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Attitude and participation | 10% | 0 | 0 | 5, 1, 7, 2, 4, 3, 8, 6 |
Final exam* | 40% | 2.5 | 0.1 | 5, 7, 2, 4, 6 |
Mid-course tests | 12% | 1 | 0.04 | 5, 7, 2, 4, 6 |
Portfolio | 14% | 5 | 0.2 | 5, 1, 7, 2, 4, 3, 8, 6 |
Writing and speaking activities | 24% | 2 | 0.08 | 5, 1, 7, 2, 4, 3, 8, 6 |
Grammar
Level A1 – B1
Andreu Castell, Brigitte Braucek: Gramàtica bàsica de la llengua alemanya – con exercicis, Editorial Idiomas - Hueber
Level A1 – C2
Brigitte Corcoll, Roberto Corcoll: Programm – Gramática A1-C2. Alemán para hispanohablantes - Herder
Brigitte Corcoll, Roberto Corcoll: Programm – Ejercicios A1-C2. Alemán para hispanohablantes - Herder
On line
Networked multimedia materials for learning.
Websites recommended by the teachers.
Dictionary
Langenscheidts Universalwörterbuch: Diccionario Moderno Alemán Spanisch-Deutsch/Deutsch-Spanisch – Langenscheidt
Langenscheidts Universalwörterbuch: Katalanisch: Katalanisch-Deutsch / Deutsch-Katalanisch - Langenscheidt