Inglés para Fines Profesionales

Grado en Turismo
Self-Evaluation 1 /Unit 1

UNIT 1 – TEST

1. What do you ask somebody after having done some common activity
together (watching a film, listening to a conference, etc.)?
a. Did you enjoy it? *
b. Did you like the experience?
c. What would you think about it?

b) sounds too transcendental and c) is something you would say if you are making
a proposal to someone, not if you’re asking them for their opinion.

2. What would you say spontaneously to someone to prompt them to provide

further explanations about something they have just said (esp. if it was
something unexpected or something surprising)?
a. Really? How is that? *
b. I’d like you to give me further explanations on that issue, please.
c. I don’t understand what your implications are.

b) lacks spontaneity and sounds rather pompous. As for c), it is things or actions
that have implications, not people.

3. How would you NOT refer to your flight delay?

a. My flight is two hours late.
b. My flight was scheduled to take off two hours ago.
c. My flight has postponed two hours. *

c) would need to be in the passive voice and it is a transitive verb so the sentence is
meaningless and grammatically incorrect too.

4. How do you ask someone their profession?

a. In what do you work?
b. What do you do when you work?
c. What do you do for a living? *

a) sounds rather awkward (In which field do you work? would be a lot more
natural). b) is not asking for someone’s job but for some sort of description abut
their working activities.

5. How do you ask somebody to supervise your belongings in a public place?

a. Can you keep watch of my stuff, please?
b. Can you observe my stuff, please?
c. Can you keep an eye on my stuff, please? *

a), keep watch, takes the preposition on and is not used for momentary activities
like this one. Observe in b) is related to visual perception but its meaning is slightly
different.
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6. Don’t look for it here; it is…

a. there beyond.
b. over there.*
c. far away there.

a) is the only logical prepositional phrase with a preposition (over) followed by the
adverb there. It is so common that it is a rather fixed expression. There, far away in
c) would have been plausible as well. Beyond in a) is a preposition which is lacking
a following complement.

7. How do you ask for things politely?

a. I would appreciate it if you kept the secret for me. *
b. I’d be grateful for you keeping my secret.
c. I’d thank you to keep my secret, please.

The three initial clauses are conditional so an if- clause in the past is the most
adequate option.

8. In hop on-hop off buses, you get _____ and _____ the bus as you like.
a. On / off *
b. on / out
c. inside / outside

Movements in and out of land vehicles like buses and trains are expressed with
those prepositions (although not cars!).

9. What do you say when you want to finish off a story without too much
detail?:
a. To cut / make a long story short… *
b. Let me be brief and concise with this story…
c. What is brief, it’s good twice…

b) is not a natural saying and c) is completely meaningless in English. A), on the

contrary, is a highly common expression in these cases.

10. Who does a floor housekeeper in a hotel report to directly?

a. A deputy housekeeper. *
b. A recruiting member of staff.
c. An assistant manager.

A floor housekeeper supervises work activities of the cleaning personnel for a

particular floor within a building.

11. What is a prep cook?

a. The prefect of a restaurant kitchen, similar to a maître.
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b. A cook who helps the major chiefs in doing the initial preparation of the
dishes.
c. An entry level kitchen position ideally suited for an aspiring chief. *

c).
12. How do you specify that a lawyer is female?
a. A she lawyer.
b. A lady lawyer.*
c. A lawyeress.

a) is typical of female animals (a she dog, a she goat) and c) does not exist.
Women lawyers are not referred to as “Lady lawyer, would you be so kind
as to….?”, but a speaker may choose to specify that his/her lawyer is a
woman, and not a man, by using an expression like: “lady lawyer / woman
lawyer / female lawyer”. This obviously applies to other professions like
“lady doctor”, etc.

13. Which type of weather does NOT affect visibility?

a. Foggy.
b. Misty.
c. Chilly. *

Chilly is strictly related to cold weather. Fog and mist reduce visibility and their
difference is related to the density of humidity.

14. What type of weather is likely to coincide with electric storms?

a. Thundery*
b. Muggy
c. Damp

b). Muggy is related to the presence of moisture in the air and damp in c) means
humid, wet.

15. Which of the following expressions is preferred to refer to a specific set of

people?
a. Card holders enjoy the following privileges: *
b. People holding cards enjoy the following privileges:
c. Customers who have cards enjoy the following privileges:

The morpheme –er turns the subject into a regular group, a category of people
while b) and c) refer to temporary circumstances.

16. What is the tendency in English these days regarding gender distinctions?
a. Emphasize them when possible.
b. Neutralize them when possible. *
c. Ignore them.
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Definitely b). There is a strong tendency to be and sound politically correct and
neutralizing gender differences is the least controversial option nowadays.

17. Which is the most numerous group of English speakers in the world?
a. Natives, i.e., those who speak it as their mother tongue.
b. Non-natives, i.e., those who speak it as a second language. *
c. Americans, particularly North Americans.

Definitely b) by many, many millions.

18. Which is the general criterion for belonging to the Commonwealth of

Nations?
a. Being an English speaking state.
b. Being an Anglophile country.
c. Being an ex British colony or having a strong constitutional link to the
United Kingdom or one of its ex colonies.*

c), although a couple of countries that have been admitted into the Commonwealth
do not fulfil any of these requirements, namely Rwanda and Mozambique.