Making students aware of english forspecific purposesThe case of english for tourism

Abstract

English + Tourism students at the University of Jaén (Spain) are offered three courses on the use of English.However, no real practice is offered in any of them. For this reason, a real-like activity was devised and carried out withstudents taking the course Gramática Inglesa (English Grammar). The objectives were two-fold: first, to familiarizestudents with tourist brochures; second, to make students aware of the importance of applying their knowledge ofEnglish Grammar and vocabulary, as well as make them notice the special lexico-grammatical patterns used in tourist brochures. This paper describes the activities developed in the first year of the project, which involved the students’familiarization with tourist brochures, the use of appropriate sources of information online so that each student couldwrite a tourist brochure, the compilation of a glossary and the oral presentation of a building in the city of Jaén in asimulated activity