Тема 4 hotels

Питання для самостійного опрацювання:

1. In what way is the work of receptionist different in a large hotel and a small hotel?

2. Who does the allocation of hotel bedrooms?

3. Write down six ways that a hotel receives bookings.

4. When are guests asked to confirm a booking?

5. How does the reservations clerk record a booking?

6. Find the information about Grand Hotels all over the world

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Література: [5, c. 16-22; 7, c. 214-256]

Тема 5 post-office. Telephone Питання для самостійного опрацювання:

1. When did you send a telegram last? Did you send it with the reply pre-paid? Did you send it by telephone or did you go to the nearest post-office?

2. How do you cash a money order?

3. What can you buy at the post-office?

4. What do you know about Alexander Bell?

5. Where does a postman drop your letters and newspaper?

6. Who sends letters by mail nowadays?

7. Prepare a report about Alexander Bell and his invention.

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Література: [3, c. 241-259 ]

Тема 6 transport Питання для самостійного опрацювання:

1. Read the text from Unit 10, find there words belonging to the following categories: transport services; types of connections; verbs to describe roads; verbs to describe traveling; verbs to describe the development of transport infrastructure; types and names of stations; types of transport; adjectives and adverbs to describe traffic.

2. Describe the public system in your town using the words from Unit 10.

3. Read and translate the following texts:

LAGUARDIA, NEW YORK

Volume: 27.2 million passengers

Hub: None

La Guardia is embroiled in a messy renovation that airport officials liken, with only faint exaggera­tion, to open-heart surgery performed on a marathoner while running. Rows of cranes and gaping pits sepa­rate the arrivals roadway from the main terminal, and passengers thread through dimly lit plywood-encased walkways to the street. Narrowed roads cause long traf­fic jams and even longer taxi queues. Inside, the work has crowded out some ticket counters and produced lots of scaffolding. New York's backyard airport will be under the knife until summer at least. Flight delays doubled two yeas ago and eased only somewhat dur­ing the concluding nine months of last year.

• Making connections. The Pan American and Trump shuttles to Boston and Washington, D.C., account for about 1 in 6 La Guardia flights. Experienced commuters who miss Pan Am's shuttles, every hour on the half-hour from the Marine Air Terminal, flag down cabs and head for the Trump Shuttle terminal a mile away, where flights leave every hour on the hour. The ride costs about $4, but waiting for the free airport bus can eat up 20 minutes Very few passengers change planes at La Guardia, and the only tough connections involve busing from one termi­nal to another; an entire airport loop can take up to an hour. But Delta keeps private vans parked on the departure road nearby. They can rush latecomers to distant terminals in 10 minutes, traffic permitting.

JOHN F. KENNEDY (JFK), NEW YORK

Volume: 29.4 million passengers

Hub: Pan Am, TWA

The Ellis Island of the Jet Age, JFK handles 18 million overseas passengers a year, nearly twice as many as any other U.S. airport. But its busy skies cause one of the worst on-time records in the nation, and with $30 cab rides to New York and customs delays of up to 90 minutes, JFK has been losing European and Far Eastern business to Newark Airport and the Los Angeles and Miami airports. Still, the cheapest flights to Europe, Africa and post Soviet countries leave from here, and with the greatest frequency.

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Література: [6, c. 21-24, 280-281; 7, c.164-169]