English for Specific Purposes

Associate professor: Adisa Imamović

Faculty of Philosophy

University of Tuzla

Student: Hanka Kekić

COURSE SYLLABUS

COURSE TITLE: English for Waiters in Restaurant I’klitu

CLASS LOCATION: Restaurant I’klitu, private rooms

CLASS HOURS: 3 hours per week

TIME AND DATE: Monday 4-5:30 pm

Friday 5-6:30 pm

ADRESS AND PHONE: Restaurant I’klitu, Flengi 17, 52450, 00385-44-2356785

Instructor information:

NAME: Hanka Kekić BA

PHONE: 062/236-312
E-mail:hanka09_vkl@hotmail.com

Instructional Materials and Reference:

Required texts:

Food and Drinks, ESL/EFL Teaching activities 2009

Reference Quide to English; A Handbook of English as a Second Language, Alice Maclin 1992

English for Restaurant Workers, Sophie Allis, 2006

Companion sites:

http://www.heroturko.me/3c1/English+for+Restaurant+Workers+2nd+Edition/

http://www.phrasemix.com/collections/english-expressions-that-waiters-waitresses-and-restaurant-s.

http://www.englishformyjob.com/english-for-restaurant-staff1.html.

http://www.tolearnenglish.com/exercises/exercise-english-2/exercise-english-23342.php

http://bogglesworldesl.com/survival_travel_english/waiters.doc
 COURSE DESCRIPTION

This course is designed to help waiters to improve their existing knowledge of English language skills
and acquire new vocabulary. Through this course students acquire all the necesary structures in order
to perform the job effectively. This course is based on waiters needs and therefore it concentrates
primarily on communication skills, especially those needed for face-to-face interactions , which will
be practiced through simulations etc. The major focus of the course will be the areas of speaking and
writing. Learners desired to be proficient in spoken , this the course will also focus to improve their
pronunciation. The employees’ performance will be assessed at the end of this course. It is necessary
to say that course will focus on four basic language skills because all four are important for the job
they are currently performing. The learners find it feasible to spare one and a half hour on weekend for
this course. Therefore, the course will be designed for the duration of 1,5hours every two days in a
week.

COURSE MATERIALS

This course will be semi-intensive with emphasis on all four skills (listening,
speaking, reading and writing). Class materials include an audio CD, videos,
English films, short stories, a play, and various other authentic documents. The
materials that will be used during classes are mainly materials used in content courses or to train
people for a job, samples of papers used in a job. Materials will be used from websites like simple
letters, dialogues, instructions, videos, pictures and recorded dialogues from the real restaurant
context. All the required textbooks, readings, and other resources (restaurant equipment, software, art
supplies, etc) will be used during this course.

COURSE OBJECTIVES

By the end of the course students will be able to:

-Learn any other foreign language with a higher motivation

-Develop their writing and speaking skills

-Be able to use English in their everyday speech without any difficulties

-Be more confident when interacting with the quests

- Improve their knowledge and acquire new knowledge of vocabulary needed for their profession

- Learners will acquire competence in speaking proficiency and vocabulary, so that they can
understand what they have to do

- Students will develop their capacity to think, speak effectively and be more creative while learning
any other subject and also will have positive attitudes towards it
 ATTENDANCE

Regular attendance is required. No more than four unexcused absences will be allowed. Participation
includes:
• Signing your name on the attendance sheet;
• Being on time to class and returning from breaks;
• Sharing experiences;
• Describing how you have applied the recent course concepts to your personal/professional life;
• Sharing another resource you have used as you explored the course topics
• Submitting individual assignments when they are due.

METHODOLOGY

This course will be conducted via lectures, in-class activities. The course sessions will include
lectures, in-class activities, discussions, dialogues, video presentations, and videos of informal
conversations.

GRADING

Exams: 50% (6 exams)

Writing activities: 10%

Oral exams: 20% (2)

Participation/Homework: 20

PLAGIARISM AND USE OF ELECTRONIC RESOURCES

Academic achievement is ordinarily evaluated on the basis of work that a student produces
independently. Students who submit academic work that uses others' ideas, words, research, or images
without proper attribution and documentation are in violation of the academic code.

COURSE DETAILS

The course will take place over 2 months, duration of 10 weeks, three hours per week.

OUTLINE FOR THE WHOLE COURSE

This course covers mainly writing skill and acquisition of professional vocabulary for waiters.
 SCHEDULE

WEEK DATE TOPIC ASSIGNMENT/ACTIVITIES

Lesson 1:Short The teacher gives a proper
course overview, introduction of the course and
participation and tells students what their
May 5 other important tasks obligations are.
Lesson 2: Let’s talk Introduction of a new text,
for a while! reading for gist and for detail,
Week 1 introduction of a new
vocabulary and phrases;
speaking and reading activity.

Reading and listening to a audio

recording and answering to a
May 9 Lesson 3: Shall we set of questions from the book.
order? Writing, reading and listening
activity.
Lesson 4: Sample Students look at the pictures
May 12 conversation; At the from the book, write new
restaurant words, and practice
pronunciation.

Week 2
Reading to a short text about
May 16 Lesson 4:At the restaurant supplies and
restaurant ; pair work answering to the text questions.
Reading and writing activity.

May 19 Lesson 5:Plates and Students read a newspaper

dishes! article about all different dishes
and write new vocabulary into
their notebooks while practicing
pronunciation.

Students create dishes for

a restaurant menu. Each dish
comes with a description of the
Week 3 ingredients and the price.
Students complete the rest of
the menu with dishes they like
May 23 Lesson 6: Show me to eat. When the students have
the menu, please! finished, they display their
menus on the classroom wall
for the other students to see. As
an extension, they can practice
restaurant role-plays using the
menus they have created.
 Lesson 7:Receiveing Students watch video and then
May 26 an order at the practice in pairs with their class
restaurant ( you tube colleagues how to receive an
video) order using new vocabulary
from past lesson. Speaking
Week 4 activity.

Students read to a dialogues and

May 30 Lesson 8: At the discuss new phrases they have
restaurant; role-play learnt. Writing and speaking
activities using a sample
dialogue.

Short tasks in order to

June 2 Repetition repeat all sections and
new vocabulary.
Week 5
30 minutes
quizz,exercises,
June 6 quizz vocabulary, writing
orders and ordering
food at the restaurant
This beneficial activity
helps to
June 9 Lesson 9: Food and instruct students about
drink habits how to talk about their
eating habits. Students
complete different
what, when and where
questions that describe
their own eating and
drinking habits on
a worksheet.

In pairs, students write

Week 6 down all the food
words they can think of
that match with
different cooking
methods. They get ten
minutes to write as
many words as they
June 13 Lesson 10: What do can. After that, they
you cook? exchange their sheets
with another pair to be
marked. Each pair
receives one point for
each correctly spelt
food word.
Week 7 June 16 Lesson 11: Dining out; Students work in
role play groups of three. Each
group is given 20 role-
play cards instructions.
Week 7
 June 20 Lesson 12: Food Teaching activity about
sayings food phrases and
idioms. Students begin
by matching food
words with pictures.
Then, students work
with a partner. Students
learn new phrases and
idioms.
Lesson 13: What’s for This writing and
June 23 lunch? speaking task aids are
teaching students ways
to order food and
drinks in a restaurant.
Students are given a
Week 8 mixed-up restaurant
conversation. The
conversation is based
on ordering food in a
restaurant.
Lesson 14: Biling and Students learn paying
June 27 goodbyes (YT video options and learn how
and text) to use it during their
work.
June 30 Lesson 15: Who said This lesson teaches
it? students various
phrases and questions
people use when dining
Week 9 at a restaurant.

July 4 Repetition Worksheets with

different phrases,
sentences, idioms,
vocabulary in order to
repeat the lessons.
Week 10 July 7 FINAL EXAM