- •At the hotel
- •1. Memorize the following words and expressions:
- •2. Read and translate the following sentences:
- •3. Read and translate the dialogue:
- •4. Fill in the blanks with the words and expressions from ex.1:
- •5. Fill in the forms and register in a hotel:
- •6. Memorize the following words and expressions:
- •7. Read and translate the following sentences:
- •8. Give the English equivalents to the following words and expressions:
- •9. Make up sentences of your own using the words and expressions from ex.8.
- •10. Read the texts and answer the questions following them: Types of hotels
- •Types of hotel accommodation
- •11. You are staying in quite a good hotel (e.G. Two-star or three-star) in your country. Would you expect to have the following?
- •12. Consider the list of hotel facilities:
- •13. Explain the meaning of the signs which you may meet in a hotel:
- •Explain what the following signs mean:
- •15. Put these sentences in a logical order:
- •16. Study the following rules of staying in the hotel:
- •17. Paraphrase some of the above instructions using the following phrases:
- •19. Disagree with the statements. Prove your reasons. Use the expressions:
- •20. Read and translate the dialogues. Practise them in pairs.
- •1. Which hotel to stay at.
- •2. I’d like a single room.
- •3. Have you filled in the arrival card?
- •4. Unfortunately we are packed full.
- •5. How long will you stay?
- •6. Wake me up at seven.
- •7. I’d like to have it by tomorrow.
- •8. I’m signing out today.
- •21. Keep these conversations going:
- •22. What would you say in these situations?
- •Answer the following questions:
- •24. Study these problem situations. Discuss or dramatize them.
- •25. Read and translate the text:
- •26. Be ready to talk on one of the following topics.
- •27. Study the following advertisements. Discuss with your friends where to stay. Kings Lodge Private Hotel
- •Hotel “ Arcade “
- •Avenue House Hotel
- •Grasmere House
- •Hotel “ Europe”
- •28. Advertise the hotel you are staying at. Say why you like it.
- •29. Read the jokes and retell them to your friend:
- •30. Say it in English:
- •31. Experienced travellers make a reservation by telegram. For example:
- •32. Sending a fax:
26. Be ready to talk on one of the following topics.
Describe the situation as regards hotels in your country. Compare it with the situation in Great Britain.
Speak about advantages and disadvantages of
staying at a big hotel;
staying at a small hotel.
Say what features of a hotel might attract a tourist staying there.
Say what pleased you or displeased you at the hotel you stayed.
Speak about the differences between the hotel services in this country and the foreign countries that you have visited.
Say why people sometimes have to cancel reservations at a hotel.
27. Study the following advertisements. Discuss with your friends where to stay. Kings Lodge Private Hotel
5 Kings Road, Wimbledon, London SW 19 8PJ. Tel: 01 – 545 0191. Relax in the comfortable atmosphere of Kings Lodge. All the accommodation is centrally-heated and conforms to the most stringent requirements of the various Tourist Agencies.
Breakfast is served in our separate dining room. Room service is also available. The “Kings” bedrooms vary in size from single to double, twin and family suites, each with its own private facilities. The suites have superb four- piece bathrooms. Tea and coffee making facilities are in each room, as are cool cabinets for soft drinks. Direct dial telephones and colour TV sets with remote control are also in each bedroom.
We have provided a ground-floor double bedroom designed to take a wheelchair.
Hotel “ Arcade “
Winston Churchill Avenue, Portsmouth, Hampshire. Tel: (0705) 82 19 92
Fax: (0707) 86 34 60. 144 bedrooms for 1 or 2 persons (twin or double beds) with a shower room and WC.
Additional bed(s) available upon request.
Television. Radio. Direct dial telephone. Tea-/coffee making facilities. Bar and restaurant. Around the clock welcome. Self-service breakfast. 3 conference rooms. Private car park.
The Arcade Hotel, Portsmouth, is situated only minutes from the shopping center, main railway station and continental ferry port and really is in the heart of Portsmouth’s city centre. The Arcade Hotel is an ideal centre from which to explore this historic naval city and experience the many delights Portsmouth has to offer.
Avenue House Hotel
Small, friendly family run hotel set in pleasant garden surroundings.
Well-equipped en suite rooms. Elegant four poster suite. Ample parking in the ground. Non- smoking rooms available. Ground floor rooms available – some designed with the wheelchair user in mind.
Conservatory lounge.
Tel: 01329 232175
Fax: 01329 232196
Grasmere House
Relaxed friendly hotel set in tranquil surroundings.
20 rooms all en suite;
full room facilities inc. tea, coffee, TV, iron, suit press, etc.;
disabled rooms available;
honeymoon suites with four poster beds;
licensed bar;
convenient location with easy access and parking.
Tel: 01722 338388
Fax: 01722 333710.
Hotel “ Europe”
Hotel “Europe” is situated in the best part of the city, close to parks, museums, shops and minutes from the centre. It is one of the best tourist class hotels, with 100 rooms, 70 with shower or bath and WC, lift, restaurant, bar, large comfortable TV hall, central heating, telephones and radio in all the rooms; 24 hours snack service. Sightseeing tours arranged; multi-lingual reception personnel; night porters; laundry service; telegraph.
Tel: 01543 643862.