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                        Teacher’s Guide
                        English for Tourism Electronic Module has been designed to improve students
                        proficiency in English for tourism. It is based on hypermedia which
                        complemented by video and audio link that can be used in the class or outside of
                        the class. It can be supplementary teaching material for English for tourism that
                        can be accessed by both teacher and students through personal computer or
                        android gadget. The focus of this electronic module is on four skills of language;
                        listening, speaking, reading and writing. In addition, it also discusses some
                        important language usage and grammar topics and also vocabularies which
                        frequently used in the tourism communication activities. Therefore the teacher has
                        to pay attention how to use the  English for tourism electronic module on line
                        class or in the class to achieve effective, efficient and enjoyable English learning
                        process.
                        Listening Activities
                        Listening activities consists of dialogues or conversation that delivered by native
                        or local teachers. Some students get difficulties in listening native speakers
                        because of its speed, pronunciation, accent, and intonation. To prevent some
                        problems in listening activities, the teacher  has to suggest the students to have a
                        good sound system in their android gadget. In the class room, the teacher have to
                        provide a good active speaker in the class room and internet connection in
                        personal computer.
                        The video and audio files has been adapted and can be accessed through YouTube
                        and downloaded. The teacher can  choose and play the video and audio file that
                        correspond to listening activities.
                        Speaking Activities
                        Speaking activities provides some video and audio conversations followed by the
                        conversation text. Both could be considered as a model English for tourism
                        communication. Therefore students will have some experiences to practice the
                        dialogues in the unit and may scaffold them with their own languages. It is
                        suggested that the teacher ought to give a model of conversation practice to
                        initiate students understanding in practicing their own dialogues in the form of a
                        role play, pair work or group work speaking activities.
                        Reading Activities
                        Reading activities consist of   tourism texts such as brochures, maps, news,
                        letter,   announcement, and catalogues of tourism products. Reading activities in
                        this module encourage students to improve their comprehension in reading dealing
                        with tourism texts. Teachers may start the reading activity by checking student’s
                        vocabularies enrichments then followed by understanding main idea. It would be
                        much more interesting reading activities if the teacher executes some reading
                        techniques for example scanning, skimming, reading speed, jig show  reading,
                        reading comprehension quizzes and reading aloud. It is better to suggest the
                        students to have some further reading comprehension activities by exploring links
                        which suggested in the module.
                        Writing Activities
                        Writing activities give students to have writing activities dealing with tourism
                        writing activities. The teacher may start with understanding how to make simple
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