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Student’s Guide
English for Tourism Electronic Module has been designed to improve users
(students) proficiency in English for tourism. It is based on hypermedia which
complemented by video and audio and English lesson exercises link that you can
access anywhere and any time you want. This electronic module can be
supplementary English for tourism materials that can be accessed through
both personal computer or android gadget. It focuses on four skills of languages;
listening, speaking, reading and writing. In addition, it also discusses some
important language usage or expression and grammar topics and also vocabularies
which frequently used in the tourism communication activities. Therefore you
have 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 of you get difficulties in listening native speakers because
of its speed, pronunciation, accent, and intonation. To prevent some problems in
listening activities, it is suggested that you have to have a good sound system in
your android gadget. If you use personal computer or laptop, make sure it has a
good active speaker and a good internet connection.
The video and audio files has been adapted and can be accessed through YouTube
and downloaded. You can choose and play the video and audio file that
correspond to listening activities and have more practices.
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 which can be copied their pronunciation and accents. As a result
you will have some experiences to practice the dialogues in the unit and may
scaffold them with your own languages. It is suggested that you follow the video
conversation model to initiate your understanding in practicing your own
dialogues in the form of a role play, pair work or group work speaking activities
with your partners.
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 you to improve your comprehension in reading dealing
with tourism texts. You may start the reading activities by checking your
vocabularies enrichments then followed by understanding main idea. It would be
much more interesting reading activities if you use some reading techniques for
example scanning, skimming, reading speed, jig show reading, reading
comprehension quizzes and reading aloud as suggested by your teacher. It would
be better if you have some further reading comprehension activities by exploring
links which suggested in the module.
Writing Activities
Writing activities give you some writing practices and activities dealing with
tourism activities. You may start with understanding how to make simple
sentences such as how to make personal massages, email and report. Next the
comprehension of the sentence structures for examples complete massages, email