English grammar and learning tasks for tourism studies / María Ángeles Escobar Álvarez.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Escobar Álvarez, María Ángeles.

Series:

Unidad didáctica.

Unidad didáctica

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English language--Grammar.

English language.

Tourism.

Turismo.

Lengua inglesa--Gramática.

Local Subjects:

Turismo.

Lengua inglesa--Gramática.

Genre:

Libros electronicos.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (209 p.)

Place of Publication:

Madrid : UNED - Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, [2011]

Summary:

Este libro desarrolla una gramática de la lengua inglesa a través de la puesta en marcha de una serie de tareas de aprendizaje en el campo de la industria turi stica, en las qué se ponen en práctica las construcciones más prototi picas y frecuentes de la lengua inglesa en la comunicación oral y escrita. Los contenidos gramaticales se van desarrollando de forma paulatina a medida qué aumenta la dificultad de su adquisición: de construcciones más sencillas a construcciones más complejas. El libro puede utilizarse en las clases de gramática de lengua inglesa para fines especi ficos en niveles B1, B2, C1 y C2.

Contents:

ENGLISH GRAMMAR AND (...); PA GINA LEGAL ; CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION; I. COURSE OUTLINE; II. THE STUDY OF GRAMMAR AND ITS EFFECTS FOR THE LANGUAGE ACQUISITION PROCESS; III. ENGLISH CONSTRUCTIONS; IV. LEARNING TASKS FOR LANGUAGE DISTANCE LEARNING; UNIT 1 WORD BUILDING; 1.1. ADJECTIVES AND COMPARISONS; 1.1.1. Comparative and superlative adjectives; 1.1.2. Pay attention: doubling the consonant; 1.1.3. Stressing the differences through modifiers; 1.1.4. Farther or further; 1.1.5. Common phrases with superlatives; 1.1.6. Other ways of making comparisons; 1.2. USES OF THE ENGLISH ARTICLE

1.2.1. Basic data1.2.2. Other omissions of 'the'; 1.2.3. A test for determining if 'the' is required; 1.2.4. Numbers in reference work; 1.3. COMPOUNDS; 1.4. ADJECTIVES AND ADVERBS; 1.4.1. Identification; 1.4.2. Syntactic Distribution of Adjectives; 1.4.3. Syntactic Distribution of Adverbs; 1.5. DESCRIPTIONS OF OBJECTS AND PEOPLE: LEARNING TASKS; 1.5.1. Description of people; 1.6. GENITIVES: LEARNING TASKS; UNIT 2 WORD ORDER; 2.1. WORD ORDER IN ENGLISH; 2.2. AUXILIARIES IN NEGATIVE SENTENCES AND IN SHORT SENTENCES; 2.2.1. Introduction; 2.2.2. Auxiliaries used on their own

2.2.3. Short questions to show interest2.3. THE PRESENT TENSES; 2.3.1. Present Simple; 2.3.2. Present Continuous; 2.3.3. Present Simple versus Present Continuous; 2.4. MODALS; 2.4.1. Ability; 2.4.2. Asking for and giving permission; 2.4.3. Possibility; 2.4.4. Obligation; 2.4.5. Strong Obligation and necessity; UNIT 3 CONDITIONALS; 3.1. IDENTIFICATION; 3.2. USAGE OF CONDITIONAL SENTENCES; 3.2.1. A logic result; 3.2.2. First Conditional; 3.2.3. Second Conditional; 3.2.4. Third Conditional; 3.3. MODAL VERBS IN CONDITIONALS; 3.4. POLITE EXPRESSIONS

UNIT 4 THE PAST TENSE IN ACCOUNTS AND NARRATIVES4.1. IDENTIFICATION; 4.2. SIMPLE PAST AND PAST CONTINUOUS; 4.2.1. The Simple Past; 4.2.2. Past Continuous; 4.2.3. Similarities with other continuous forms; 4.3. THE PERFECT TENSES; 4.3.1. Present Perfect Simple; 4.3.2. Present Perfect versus Past Simple; 4.3.3. Time words with the Present Perfect and Past Simple; 4.3.4. Present Perfect Continuous; 4.4. CONTRASTING PAST AND PRESENT; 4.4.1. Used to; 4.4.2. Not ... any longer / not ... any more; 4.4.3. Adverbials: still, yet and already; UNIT 5 REPORTED SPEECH; 5.1. IDENTIFICATION

5.2. MORE FREQUENT REPORTING VERBSUNIT 6 THE FUTURE TENSES; 6.1. IDENTIFICATION; 6.2. TALKING ABOUT A PLANNED TOUR; UNIT 7 HYPOTHETICAL MEANING; 7.1. IDENTIFICATION; 7.2. WISH, REGRET AND IF ONLY; 7.2.1. Wish; 7.2.2. Regret; 7.2.3. If only; 7.3. OTHER EXPRESSIONS; 7.3.1. It's time; 7.3.2. I'd rather (would rather); 7.3.3. Suppose; 7.4. 'D RATHER VERSUS 'D BETTER; UNIT 8 RELATIVE CLAUSES; 8.1. IDENTIFICATION; 8.2. RESTRICTIVE RELATIVE CLAUSES; 8.3. NON RESTRICTIVE RELATIVE CLAUSES; 8.4. FREE RELATIVE CLAUSES; 8.5. DEFINING ONLINE NETWORKS; UNIT 9 INFINITIVES AND GERUNDS; 9.1. IDENTIFICATION

9.1.1. Finite / Non Finite Verbs

Notes:

Contiene índice.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed October 10, 2015).

ISBN:

84-362-6191-7

OCLC:

923033532