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21st BESIG CONFERENCE

Sankt Augustin, November, 2008

Help your students enhance theirBusiness English for tourism vocabulary

(workshop)

Magda Pasalic

University of Split, Faculty of Economics Split


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Please classify the following items and write them in one of the columnsin the table below.

tennis court telephone central heating mini-bar

swimming pool laundry service solarium

tea/coffee making facilities full-length mirror toiletries

en suite bathroom 24-hour room service restaurant

reception area breakfast room luxury bedding

HOTEL FACILITIES ROOM FACILITIES


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KEY

HOTEL FACILITIES ROOM FACILITIES

1) tennis court

2) swimming pool

3) laundry service

4) solarium

5) 24-hour room service

6) restaurant

7) reception area

8) breakfast room

1) telephone

2) central heating (this could be

classified as a hotel facility as

well)

3) en suite bathroom

4) luxury bedding

5) mini-bar

6) tea/coffee making facilities

7) full-length mirror

8) toiletries


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VEGETABLES

Write the names of the vegetables next to the photos.

aubergine leek cucumber cauliflower pepper peas onioncabbage beetroot radish courgette red kidney beans


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Which are herbs and which are spices?

parsley cinnamon nutmeg ro

curry

chives sage g

HERBS: _________________, _________________, ________________

SPICES: _________________, _________________, ________________


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Use the adjectives to describe flavours and tastes to describe the

following food:

lemonade without sugar

pizza

Indian curry

cotton candy

boiled riceunripe fruit


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Conference Dining (Meetings & Banquet Menu)

Fill in the gaps in the two paragraphs below.

menu # award-winning # chef # cuisine # culinary # authentic #

outdoor # panoramic # unique

Prepared with purity and served with (1)_____________ (real, true)

hospitality, meeting guests are always delighted with the

(2)_____________ (connected with cooking or kitchens) experience at

Stonewall Resort. Our (3)_____________ (having won a prize or prizes

for being of high quality or very skilled) culinary staff specialises in

exemplary (4)_____________ (a style of cooking)that changes daily and

with season. Request a special (5)_____________ (a list of the food that

you can eat in a restaurant) tailored to suit your conference theme, or let

the resort's (6)_____________ (a skilled and trained cook who works in a

hotel or restaurant, especially the most important cook) plan taste

temptations that will delight everyone.

Find the right atmosphere for your gathering. Your attendees will enjoy

(7)_____________ (being the only existing one of its type or, more

generally, unusual or special in some way) dining in Stillwaters. You may

take a seat indoors or on the (8)_____________ (existing, happening or

done outside, rather than inside a building) deck to enjoy a

(9)_____________ (refers to the view of a wide area of land) view of the

resort and the surrounding landscape.


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----------Key----------

Conference Dining (Meetings & Banquet Menu)

Prepared with purity and served with authentic hospitality, meeting

guests are always delighted with the culinary experience at Stonewall

Resort. Our award-winning culinary staff specialises in exemplary

cuisine that changes daily and with season. Request a special menu

tailored to suit your conference theme, or let the resort's chefplan taste

temptations that will delight everyone.

Find the right atmosphere for your gathering. Your attendees will enjoy

unique dining in Stillwaters. You may take a seat indoors or on the

outdoor deck to enjoy a panoramic view of the resort and the

surrounding landscape.


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References:

1) Dubicka, I. and OKeeffe, M. (2003). English forInternational Tourism, Pre-intermediate Students Book.

Harlow: Pearson Education Limited.

2) Dubicka, I. and OKeeffe, M. (2003). English forInternational Tourism, Pre-intermediate Workbook. Harlow:Pearson Education Limited.

3) Harding, K. and Henderson, P. (1994). High Season,English for the Hotel and Tourist Industry. Oxford: OxfordUniversity Press.

4) Jones, L. (1998). Welcome! English for the travel andtourism industry. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

5) Marinov, S. and Paali, M. (2005). English CroatianDictionary of Tourism. Split: Faculty of Economics Split.

6) McCarthy, M. and ODell F. (1994). English Vocabulary inUse. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Websites:

1) www.experiencemarriott.com

2) www.ldoceonline.com

3) www.onelook.com

4) www.stonewallresort.com

5) www.teachers-pet.org

(Free Software & Teaching Resource SearchThe Teacher's Pet toolbar is a uniqueadd-on for your word processor that can transform any text into fun classroomactivities. Created by a teacher, the toolbar can make crosswords, bingo cards,jumbles, word search puzzles, flashcards, cloze tests, pair-matching puzzles andmuch more.)

6) http://hotpot.uvic.ca/

(The Hot Potatoes suite includes six applications, enabling you to create interactivemultiple-choice, short-answer, jumbled-sentence, crossword, matching/ordering and

gap-fill exercises for the World Wide Web. Hot Potatoes is not freeware, but it is freeof charge for those working for publicly-funded non-profit-making educational


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institutions, who make their pages available on the web. Other users must pay for alicence. Check out the Hot Potatoes licensing terms and pricing on the Half-BakedSoftware Website.)

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