NCHU Course Outline
Course Name (中) 旅遊英語(0950)
(Eng.) English for Travel
Offering Dept Language Center
Course Type Elective Credits 2 Teacher CHEN LI HENG
Department General Language 中/英文 Semester 2024-FALL
Course Description The course features some introductions to travel contexts, including preparing some documents, making reservations for tickets, hotels, or restaurants, departure procedure, in the air, hotel checking-in and checking out, exchange currency, some travel problems, some terminologies, etc.
It also introduces speaking strategies, such as introducing some tourist attractions to visitors, talking about food, etc. Students are supposed to practice conversations or make presentations on some travel topics in class.
Prerequisites
self-directed learning in the course Y
Relevance of Course Objectives and Core Learning Outcomes(%) Teaching and Assessment Methods for Course Objectives
Course Objectives Competency Indicators Ratio(%) Teaching Methods Assessment Methods
1.Build up their vocabulary and phrase banks for traveling
2.Make them confident of using English to express their own ideas
3.Communicate with others while traveling.
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Discussion
Other
Lecturing
Attendance
Oral Presentation
Assignment
Course Content and Homework/Schedule/Tests Schedule
Week Course Content
Week 1 Week 1 (09.10): Class Orientation
Week 2 Week 2 (09.17): Mid-Autumn Festival!
Week 3 Week 3 (09.24): Find Your Partner & Group Members+ Select your Seat
Week 4 Week 4 (10.01): Get to Know Famous Tourist Attractions Around the World+Different Types of Holiday+Before The Trip: Documents Preparation
Week 5 Week 5 (10.08): Before The Trip: Documents Preparation +Group Visa Introduction
Week 6 Week 6 (10.15): Before The Trip: Planning Your Trip & Confirming Your Flight
Week 7 Week 7 (10.22): At the Airport: Departure Procedure & Boarding the Plane+ Pair Work 01: Booking
Week 8 Week 8 (10.29): At the Airport: Departure Procedure & Boarding the Plane
Week 9 Week 9 (11.05): Mid-term exam: Group Conversation in Travel Context
Week 10 Week 10(11.12): Being on Board: Before Takeoff & During the Flight & Before Landing
Week 11 Week 11(11.19): Arrival: Going through Immigration & Airport Service
Week 12 Week 12(11.26): Accommodation: Checking in & Using Hotel Service and Facilities & Checking out
Week 13 Week 13(12.03): Transportation: Taking a Taxi & Taking the Bus+ Pair Work 02: Hotel
Week 14 Week 14(12.10): Transportation: Taking the Train or the Subway & Renting a Car
Week 15 Week 15(12.17): Group Presentations on Group Travel Itinerary
Week 16 Week 16(12.24): Group Presentations on Group Travel Itinerary
Week 17 Week 17(12.31): Self-Study Week
1.Finish Self-Study Assignment
2.Record/Video the English Introduction to one Tourist Attraction in Taiwan
Week 18 Week 18(114.01.07): Self-Study Week
1.Finish Self-Study Assignment
2.Record/Video the English Introduction to one Tourist Attraction in Taiwan
Evaluation
1.Class Performance (including attendance, participation, and preparation): 20％
(曠課一次扣4分(一節課扣2分)，曠課滿4次，出席成績0分計，請假一節扣1分(一次扣2分)，並不得超過4次。遲到逾15分鐘，視為曠課。)
a. 4 points will be deducted for each absence, and students cannot be absent for the class more than four times, or they will get “0” from their class performance.
b. If students have to ask for a leave, they are supposed to inform the teacher that they cannot attend the class via email (writing down their student id number and name), by asking their classmates to tell the teacher, or by telling the teacher in person in the following week.
2.Mid-Term: Group Conversation 20%
3.Final Exam: Group Presentation on Group Travel Itinerary 25%
4.Pair Work: In-class Dialogue Practice 20%
5.Self-Study:15%

※Mid-Term: Conversation: (role-playing 3-5 minutes)
Students are supposed to work with their group members to have a 3-5 minutes long conversation about something related to travel contexts and present their conversation in class by heart. Students are asked to write their own script themselves and upload onto iLearning before the mid-term week.
※Final Exam: Group Presentation on Group Travel Itinerary (15-20 minutes).
Students are supposed to work with their group members to deliver an English oral presentation on their travel itinerary with PPT file. They are supposed to plan their own 5-day trip itinerary, including what documents or visas they have to prepare, researching the airlines and flights, making reservations for tickets and hotels, introducing how to get to their destination, and some tourist attractions they are going to visit, and so on. The PPT file has to be uploaded onto iLearning before their presentation. They have to try their best to detail their travel itinerary as possible as they can.
※Pair Work: In-class Dialogue practice and Discussions:
Students have to work with their partner to do some dialogue practice in class after finishing one topic.
※Self-Study: English Introduction to One Tourist Attraction in Taiwan
Students are supposed to use English to introduce ONE tourist Attraction in Taiwan in 3 minutes.
They are supposed to record/video what they are going to introduce and submit their recording onto iLearning 3.0.
Textbook & other References
Required Textbook:
Cheng, Kiwi, & Owain Mckimm. Specialized English for Tourism. 4th Ed. Taipei: Cosmos Culture Ltd., 2021. (978-626-300-045-2) 寂天出版社
Reference Book:
Jordens, Rob, & Terry Jordens. Talk about Travel: English for Airlines, Hotels, and Tours. 2nd Ed. Compass Publishing, 2009.( 978-1-599-66401-9)文鶴代理
Teaching Aids & Teacher's Website
Some references or related discussion questions will be uploaded onto iLearning 3.0 before or after the class, so students are supposed to download them and preview them before the class or review them after the class.
Office Hours
By appointment or Class hours (10:10-17:00, every Tuesday)
Sustainable Development Goals, SDGs
include experience courses：N
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Update Date, year/month/day：2024/08/29 20:59:08 Printed Date, year/month/day：2024 / 9 / 08
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