The Language of Wines: English for Wine Experts and Lovers (4ed. 2024) UNED
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This is an intermediate English course for wine experts. The knowledge about how the wine is created that such experts have is used as a starting point for the course design. Working on this knowledge the course focuses on exploring and expanding both oral( listening and speaking) and written (reading and writing) skills, depending on the student’s level of English. Specific vocabulary referring to the description of the vine plant, the process of wine making and the description of wine tasting is first revised and then developed with new terms. Those aspects of grammar that are needed in relation with such lexical areas of knowledge are particularly explained and emphasized.
Objetives
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This course uses the knowledge that the
people from the world of wine already have to improve their English.The main objectives are:
- To be able to present a wine of their choice.
- To be able to select and explain an specific asptect of their choice. For example its organoleptic characteristics.
- To be able to sumarize the main charecteristics of a wine and compare it with another wine of their own choice.
Course contents
Module O. INTRODUCTION TO THE COURSE
First module. INTRODUCING PEOPLE AT THE VINYARD
In the first module, we will meet people working at a vineyard. We explain how we are going to approach grammar in this course.
We will refresh how to introduce and greet people in formal and informal ways.
- We will also meet a wine expert and other people at the vineyard working at the vineyard and in the wine business.
Second module: PRODUCING WINE. THE VINE PLANT AND THE VINEYARD.
In this second module, we will study the better types of soils for the vine plant to prosper and where in the Earth the vine plant grows.
We will also learn the different parts of the vine plant and their function in the production of wine.
Finally, we will study a selection of the most popular types of grapes.
As for grammar, we will concentrate on how to describe things in English and how English nouns are used to name both material and abstract things. We will also revise some basic and technical vocabulary.
- Types of soils.
- Where the vine plant grows: altitude and latitude.
- The vine plant.
- Types of grapes.
Third module: PRODUCING WINE. FROM HARVEST TO CELLAR.
In this module we learn about the making of white and red wines.
From the grammar point of view, we revise how to express a sequence of actions
and how the English verb system captures the idea of time sequence. We will also see how adverbs describe this actions and processes.
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In the first part of the wine making process, we will concentrate on the harvesting and crushing.
During the second part of this module we focus ont the wine making process, focusing on the the fermenting stage.
And finaly, in the third part of the wine making process we learn about the aging stage.
- Unit 11. Tasting wines I. Flavours and mouthfeel.
- Unit 12. Tasting wines II. We smell aromas.
Fourth module: WAYS OF DESCRIBING WINES
Finally in the fourth module, we concentrate on how to put into words the wine tasting experience.