Vocabulary

1 lodging - жилище, жилье

2 childcare - уход за ребёнком

3 convention - собрание, встреча

4 to derive from - происходить от

5 en-suite - смежный, соседний

6 broadband connectivity - широкополосная связь

7 sachet - маленький пакет

8 comparability – сопоставимость

9 affiliated body - филиал, отделение

10 to assess - оценивать

Text work

1. Answer the questions:

1 What is the origin of the word “hotel”?

2 What are the usual facilities presented at any hotel?

3 What things can be found in a room at a hotel?

4 How can one find out the quality and cost of the hotel?

5 Is there any common system due to which you can learn the class of the hotel?

6 The lack of what items can decrease the quality of any hotel?

7 How do the hotels serve food and drinks?

8 What class of hotels have you visited?

9 What facilities were represented there?

10 Were you satisfied with the service?

2. Find English equivalents in the text:

1 платное жилье

2 дополнительные услуги для клиентов

3 проводить собрания и встречи

4 умывальник

5 различные программы питания

6 в установленное время

7 избегать этого требования

8 основываться (опираться) на предлагаемых услугах

9 препятствовать переходу в более высокую категорию

10 объединение системы классификации

3. Scan the text once again and find the passage, describing the common facilities of the room. What items do you think are obligatory and which ones are minor? Discuss with your partner.

Text 3. Inns

Read the following text and find the main characteristics of an inn.

Inns are establishments where travellers can procure food, drink, and lodging. Found in Europe, they first sprang up when the Romans built their system of highways two millennia ago. Some inns in Europe are centuries old. In addition to providing for the needs of travellers, inns traditionally acted as community gathering places.

"Inn" in more recent times has often come to denote a business serving alcoholic beverages, especially in North America, where they are usually alcohol-serving restaurants that have never provided lodging or serviced the needs of travellers. In Europe, it is the provision of accommodation, if anything, that now differentiates inns from taverns, alehouses and pubs. These later tend only to supply alcohol (although in the UK the conditions of their licence sometimes require them to have a nominal supply of food and soft drinks). Inns tend to be grander and more long-lived establishments. Famous London examples include the George and the Tabard. There is however no longer a formal distinction between an inn and other kinds of establishment, and many pubs will use the name "inn", either simply because they are long established, or to summon up a particular kind of image; however, originally an Inn had to provide not only food and lodging, but also stabling and fodder for the traveller's horse(s).

The original functions of an inn are now usually split among separate establishments, such as hotels, lodges, and motels, all of which might provide the traditional functions of an inn but which focus more on lodging customers than on other services; pubs, which are primarily alcohol-serving establishments; and restaurants and taverns, which serve food and drink. (Hotels often contain restaurants and also often serve complimentary breakfast and meals, thus providing all of the functions of traditional inns.) In North America, the lodging aspect of the word "inn" lives on in hotel brand names like Holiday Inn, and in some state laws that refer to lodging operators as innkeepers.

The German words for "inn", "innkeeper", and "innkeeping" illustrate the historical importance of inns. An innkeeper is Wirt (a host), the inn itself is a Wirtshaus (a host's house), and innkeeping is Wirtschaft. The last word literally means hosting or hospitality, but is also used to mean economy and business in general. In the Greek language, the word for economy (oikos "house" + nomos "law") is actually identical to housekeeping.