English for Tourism 
           
                      Students’ Workbook 
                                     
           
                                     
           
           
           
           
           
           
           
                             Ken McIntyre 
                                     
                                         
                          Centre for Language Studies 
                          Dili Institute of Technology 
             
             
           
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
        
      © 2013 Centre for Language Studies 
      Dili Institute of Technology 
      Dili, Timor Leste.  
      www.tetundit.tl 
       
      ISBN 978-989-8615-07-7
                      TABLE OF CONTENTS 
                      1.  AT THE AIRPORT ................................................................................................................... 1 
                        1.1     Vocabulary: arriving and departing ......................................................................................... 2 
                        1.2     International signs ................................................................................................................... 3 
                        1.3     Dialogue: At the airport (2.00pm) ........................................................................................... 4 
                        1.4     Information on an airline ticket ............................................................................................... 5 
                        1.5     Reading an advertisement ....................................................................................................... 6 
                        1.6     Postcards from Singapore and Amsterdam ............................................................................. 7 
                        1.7     Countries, nationalities and food ............................................................................................. 8 
                        1.8     Exercise: WH questions .......................................................................................................... 9 
                        1.9     ‘Should’ / ‘shouldn’t’ .............................................................................................................. 9 
                        1.10    A postcard from Amsterdam ................................................................................................. 11 
                      2.  TIMETABLES AND SCHEDULES ........................................................................................... 12 
                        2.1     Time and time differences ..................................................................................................... 12 
                        2.2     Vocabulary: Arrival and departure ........................................................................................ 13 
                        2.3     Airline timetable .................................................................................................................... 14 
                        2.4     Time prepositions .................................................................................................................. 16 
                        2.5     ‘Open’ and ‘closed’ ............................................................................................................... 16 
                        2.6     Exercise: Verb tense .............................................................................................................. 20 
                      3.  AT THE HOTEL ..................................................................................................................... 21 
                        3.1     Vocabulary: Hotels ................................................................................................................ 22 
                        3.2     Countable and uncountable nouns ......................................................................................... 23 
                        3.3     Vocabulary: Accommodation I ............................................................................................. 24 
                        3.4     Text: Maria’s holiday ............................................................................................................ 25 
                        3.5     ‘Some’ and ‘any’ ................................................................................................................... 26 
                        3.6     Vocabulary: Accommodation II ............................................................................................ 26 
                        3.7     Crossword: Capital cities ...................................................................................................... 27 
                        3.8     Vocabulary: Tourism............................................................................................................. 28 
                        3.9     Vocabulary: Hotel room ........................................................................................................ 28 
                        3.10    Dialogue ................................................................................................................................ 29 
                        3.11    Exercise: ‘WH’ questions ...................................................................................................... 29 
                        3.12    Vocabulary exercise .............................................................................................................. 30 
                        3.13    Late for work ......................................................................................................................... 31 
                      4.  AT THE RESTAURANT .......................................................................................................... 32 
                        4.1     Dialogue: The trainee chef .................................................................................................... 33 
                        4.2     Vocabulary: in the restaurant ................................................................................................ 34 
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                 4.3     Text: Hong Kong .................................................................................................................. 35 
                 4.4     Speaking practice .................................................................................................................. 36 
                 4.5     Exercises: ‘WH’ questions ................................................................................................... 36 
                 4.6     Compounds with ‘some’ and ‘any’ ...................................................................................... 37 
                 4.7     Crossword: mixed ................................................................................................................. 38 
                 4.8     ‘both ... and’, ‘either ... or’, ‘neither ... nor’ .......................................................................... 39 
                 4.9     Text: In the restaurant ........................................................................................................... 40 
              5.  TRAVEL DOCUMENTS ........................................................................................................ 41 
                 5.1     Boarding pass ....................................................................................................................... 42 
                 5.2     Filling in a form .................................................................................................................... 43 
                 5.3     A departure card ................................................................................................................... 44 
                 5.4     Text: Italy ............................................................................................................................. 47 
                 5.5     Exercise: ‘any’, ‘some’, ‘much’, ‘many’ .............................................................................. 48 
                 5.6     Crossword: Tourism ............................................................................................................. 49 
                 5.7     Culture: Doing business in Timor Leste ............................................................................... 50 
                 5.8     Exercise: Asking  questions .................................................................................................. 51 
              6.  CHARTS AND GRAPHS ...................................................................................................... 52 
                 6.1     Maria’s guest house .............................................................................................................. 53 
                 6.2     Exercise: conjunctions ‘and’, ‘or’, ‘but’ ............................................................................... 55 
                 6.3     Hotel Guests ......................................................................................................................... 56 
                 6.4     Prepositions for prices .......................................................................................................... 57 
                 6.5     Crossword: Around the hotel ................................................................................................ 58 
              7.  WRITING .............................................................................................................................. 59 
                 7.1     Rules of punctuation ............................................................................................................. 60 
                 7.2     Formal and informal writing................................................................................................. 62 
                 7.3     Writing a basic business letter .............................................................................................. 63 
                 7.4     Writing a covering letter for a job application ...................................................................... 64 
                 7.5     Arranging a letter .................................................................................................................. 66 
                 7.6     A job advertisement .............................................................................................................. 67 
                 7.7     Conjunctions ......................................................................................................................... 68 
                 7.8     Exercises: Comparatives....................................................................................................... 69 
                 7.9     Writing emails ...................................................................................................................... 70 
              8.  GRAMMAR ......................................................................................................................... 74 
                 8.1     Simple present tense ............................................................................................................. 74 
                 8.2     Present continuous tense ....................................................................................................... 75 
                 8.3     Simple Past Tense ................................................................................................................. 77 
                 8.4     Present Perfect ...................................................................................................................... 78 
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