- •Air travel
- •Complete the words or phrases below using words from the box.
- •What do you call:
- •Complete this part of a letter about an unpleasant flight.
- •Listen to three conversations at an airport. For each one, note down its problem and destination.
- •Twa have the answers
- •2.6 Complete the sentences paying attention to the difference between the use of the modal verbs mustn’t and don’t have to.
- •1. Fill in the gaps using the following modal verbs:
- •2. Write the sentences using the words in brackets. Use mustn’t or don’t have to.
- •Put these sentences in a logical order.
- •3.2 What would you say in these situations?
- •1. You are staying in a quite a good hotel (e.G. Two-star) in your country. Would you expect to have the following?
- •2. Write a description of an ideal hotel for you.
- •Bookings
- •4.1 Tick the correct answers to the questions below.
- •4.2 Listen to the dialogue “Booking a Hotel”. Tick the correct answers.
- •Write sentences about The Grand Hotel. Use It is… , There is… or There are… and the following phrases:
- •Using the example given below, write your own reservation-letter.
- •5. A sightseeing holiday
- •5.1 Complete this postcard that John sent to his family while he was on holiday. You may need word or phrase in each space.
- •5.2 Which of these places do you usually visit or go to when you are on holiday?
- •1. Confirm the information in the questions without repeating the same words or phrases. Use words and phrases from the opposite page.
- •Without using one town more than twice, name a town or city in your country which is:
- •6. Asking the way.
- •2. Underline the correct alternative to complete the conversations.
- •7.3 Read the extracts from the audio script. Are the phrases in bold asking for information (a), explaining the directions (e) or showing understanding (u)?
- •7.4 Work in pairs. Student a: look at the map a. Student b: look at the map b. Ask for and give directions.
- •Ask your partner for directions to:
- •Give directions from your home.
- •Write a note for an English-speaking friend giving directions from either the railway station or a bus station to your home. Start with:
- •3. Look at the map and complete the dialogue.
- •Air travel
- •4. Bookings
- •4.2 Booking a Hotel
- •6. Asking the way.
- •7. Giving directions
Put these sentences in a logical order.
I paid my bill.
I checked in at reception.
I left the hotel.
I went up to my room.
I spent the night in the hotel.
I had an early morning call at seven o’clock.
I booked a room at the hotel.
I went out for dinner in a local restaurant.
I arrived at the hotel.
I got up and had a shower.
I had breakfast.
I tipped the porter who carried my luggage upstairs.
3.2 What would you say in these situations?
You want to stay in a hotel for two nights next week with your husband / wife. You phone the hotel. What do you ask or say?
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You are at the hotel reception and you are planning to leave in 15 minutes. What could you ask the receptionist?
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You want to wake up at 7 a.m. but you don’t have an alarm clock. What do you ask at reception?
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You have a drink in the hotel bar. The barman asks how you want to pay. What’s your reply?
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When you turn on the shower in your room, the water comes out very slowly. What could you say at reception?
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You want to go to the nearest bank but don’t know where it is. What do you ask at reception?
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Home task
1. You are staying in a quite a good hotel (e.G. Two-star) in your country. Would you expect to have the following?
a room without a private bathroom
a hairdryer in the bathroom
a colour television in the room
a telephone in the room
writing paper in the room
a machine for making tea and coffee in the room
an electric trouser press (= a machine which presses / irons your trousers for you) in the room
air conditioning in the room
2. Write a description of an ideal hotel for you.
Bookings
A hotel website
customer [`kastqmq] посетитель
businesspeople [`biznqs,pi:pl] предприниматели
phone [fqun] телефон
access [`xksqs] доступ
Read this information about the Cosmo Hotel.
COSMO
HOTEL
The Cosmo Hotel in San Antonio is a small hotel, but our customers come from the world’s top companies. They know that the Cosmo understands businesspeople.
At the Cosmo, there are twelve single rooms with a shower and five double rooms with a bath. There is a phone And Internet access in every room, so you can phone the office and send e-mails, day or night.
There isn’t a restaurant, but there is a room service and there’s also a bar for snacks and drinks.
Transport is no problem. There are buses to the airport and the railway station, and there is also a car park for twenty cars.
If you want to do business in San Antonio, the Cosmo Hotel is the hotel for you!
Study the patterns there is … there are …
Singular
There is a restaurant.
There isn’t a restaurant.
Is there a restaurant?
Plural
There are two restaurants.
There aren’t any restaurants.
Are there any restaurants?
Exercises