English for Professional Guide

This book is presented as a book for Introducing Tourism English
especially for students as Tour Guides. It aims at providing the
language skills through elaborate contextual readings, dialogues
and exercises needed by students of tourism in further education
as well as by professionals working in the tourism industry. It is
designed to acquire specialized terminology and to build
confidence in professional skills needed as a professional tour
guide. This will help students and professionals working in tourism
to develop their English language skills more easily and
effectively.

English for Professional Guides
This book contains eight main units. Each unit comprises a range
of language activities designed to focus on topics relevant to the
necessary skills as tour guides. Each unit contains a language
focus section followed by exercise, vocabulary development,
pronunciation practice and a speaking section which is designed
to bring the language previously studied into active use. Reading
and writing skills also aspect prominently as the professional
practice boxes which provide language and skills that are
necessary when performing work-related tasks.
Language focus aims to teach grammar using a functional
approach where the goal is to help the learner become aware
of the way in which grammatical choices convey the meaning.
The grammatical and vocabulary sections arise out of the
communicative needs of professional person in tourism and
hospitality. For example, the pair work or group work are
explicitly designed to give further context of use for the
language introduced.
Teaches English inductively and in a fun way–the basic
structures are introduced in context through readings and
dialogues. Students use structure in talking about situations and
re-acting the dialogues.