Designing English Materials for Hospitality Students of Smk Pariwisata Imelda Medan

English has been an important subject in many sciences, especially for hospitality students. Hospitality students need more language competencies in order to compete in job profession. This reason raises a special need to provide an English material based on hospitality competencies because the present materials have not fulfil the hospitalities needs yet. Even the present materials also do not integrate some skills in English. Designing English material is the process of selecting, adapting and evaluating of teaching based on
specific terms of reference. Need Analysis is very important before designing materials. This study aims at exploring the learning needs of 30 hospitality students, and designing English materials for hospitality students based on Need Analysis. The study uses Research
and Developmental (R&D) is suitable way to design the materials. Based on the evaluation, the materials teachers use in educating the students are not appropriate to the student’s needs. It can be seen that the students need the materials which are related to their major. The findings describe the real needs of students for hospitality. This study focused on
speaking, that related to the hospitality students are about Making Reservation and Making Arrangement.