Vocabulary

1 to procure - доставлять; обеспечивать

2 to spring up - возникать, появляться

3 community - общество

4 to denote - обозначать

5 alcoholic beverage - алкогольный напиток

6 alehouse - бар; пивная

7 nominal supply - минимальное наличие

8 stabling - конюшня

9 fodder - корм для скота

10 to split among - распределять между

Text work

1. Find the synonyms to the following words in the text given above:

1 to supply meals

2 first appeared

3 requirements of customers

4 supply of lodging

5 bar

6 difference

7 usual facilities (tasks)

8 trademark

9 hotelkeeper

10 similar

2. Decide whether the statements are true or false:

1 The first inns appeared when the Greeks constructed their system of highways.

2 Nowadays inns in Europe are considered to the provision of accommodation.

3 Inns are believed to be short-lived establishments.

4 Nowadays there are no differences between inns and taverns.

5 At present there are shops, restaurants and bars inside an inn.

3. Scan the text once again and fill in the following table.

Place of hotel origin	Time of origin	List of the main functions		Differences from other accommodation establishments
		Before	Now

Text 4. Motels

Scan the following text and find the main characteristics of a motel.

Entering dictionaries after World War II, the word motel (portmanteau of "motor" and "hotel" or "motorists' hotel") referred initially to a single building of connected rooms whose doors face a parking lot and/or common area or a series of small cabins with common parking. Their creation was driven by increased driving distances on the United States highway system that allowed easy cross-country travel.

Unlike their predecessors, auto camps and tourist courts, motels quickly adopted a homogenized appearance. Typically one would find an 'I'- or 'L'- or 'U'-shaped structure that included rooms, an attached manager's office, a reception which usually takes up the space of one guest room and perhaps a small diner. Postwar motels sought more visual distinction, often featuring eye-catching neon signs which employed pop culture themes that ranged from Western imagery of cowboys and Indians to contemporary images of spaceships and atomic symbols.

The motel began in the 1920s as mom-and-pop motor courts on the outskirts of a town. They attracted the first road warriors as they crossed the United States in their new automobiles. They usually had a grouping of small cabins and their anonymity made them ideal trysting places. Even the famous outlaws Bonnie and Clyde were frequent guests, using motels as hideouts. The motels perceived lust and larceny alarmed then FBI chief J. Edgar Hoover, who attacked motels and auto camps in an article he penned called "Camps of Crime", which ran in the February 1940 issue of American Magazine.

Motels differed from hotels in their emphasis on largely anonymous interactions between owners and occupants, their location along highways (as opposed to urban cores), and their orientation to the outside (in contrast to hotels whose doors typically face an interior hallway). Motels almost by definition included a parking lot, while older hotels were not built with automobile parking in mind.

With the 1952 introduction of Kemmons Wilson's Holiday Inn, the 'mom and pop' motels of that era went into decline. Eventually, the emergence of the interstate highway system, along with other factors, led to a blurring of the motel and the hotel. Today, family-owned motels with as few as five rooms may still be found along older highways. The quality and standards of every independent motel differ.