2. Be a host and a guest in turns.

Interview your partner like this: Can you tell me what Oliver Salad is?

Ask about: Olivier salad (Russian potato salad), goluptsi (cabbage rolls, crab stick salad, pelmeni, herring under a fur coat, etc.

3. Project Work:

• Imagine you are student travelers / business travelers. You are going to have lunch in St-Petersburg. Where will you go? What are the best eating places in the city centre? Use the Internet to find out. Collect as much information as possible. Give reasons for your choice.

• Work in small groups. Prepare a short presentation on the restaurants and cafes in St-Petersburg.

• Write a letter to your foreign friend describing your latest visit to some interesting restaurant or cafe and the experience you have had eating there. Express your opinion.

Task 3. Read the description of some Russian dishes. Guess what they are?

1. A vegetarian salad (boiled beets, potatoes, and carrots; pickles, some chopped onion)

2. A cold soup based on kvas, green onion, herbs and spices such as black pepper, mustard or horse radish.

3. A fish soup cooked with potatoes and other vegetables.

4. Salad with rice (or pasta), boiled eggs, sweet corn and diced crab (imitation or otherwise), mixed in mayonnaise.

5. Seasoned ground beef and rice filling stuffed inside boiled cabbage leaves. Sweet pepper shells are also a popular alternative to cabbage.

6. A light refreshing drink made by boiling fresh fruit with sugar, then leaving it to cool and infuse.

7. Marinated meat cooked on a skewer. Popularity in Russia originated in the late 19th century from Caucuses region

8. A traditional Russian dish made with minced meat filling, wrapped in thin dough dumplings.

9. Also known as Fish under a Fur Coat, its a Russian favorite. Ingredients include herring fillets, potatoes, carrots, beets, eggs and mayonnaise.

10. A flexible salad composed of boiled potatoes, vegetables, often with meat, mixed in mayonnaise.This salad is the creation of a French chef, M. Olivier, who in the 1860s opened a fashionable restaurant in Moscow called The Hermitage.

11. A vegetable soup most commonly made with beets and often with meat.

12. Small dough buns or pies stuffed with variable fillings. Traditional fillings include fish (sautéed with onions and mixed with hard-boiled chopped eggs), meat (boiled and chopped, then mixed with sautéed onions and eggs), Potato (mashed, then mixed with eggs and sour cream), cabbage (sautéed, plus egg and spices).

Unit 9 accommodation

There is no place like home.

East or West, home is best.

He who is first come is first served.

Whether on vacation or business, people like to feel that they are in their home away from home when they stay at a hotel.  Customer service is by far the most important defining factor in the hospitality industry, and hotels are no exception.  Guests must feel comfortable and at ease with the hotel staff, as well as with the accommodations.

Hotel managers must also have training in order to be competitive in the field. They must complete courses in business, hospitality management, marketing and communications. Travel and tourism course are offered at traditional universities and colleges, as well as online or through distance-learning programs.

Pre-reading task

Task 1. Work in pairs and discuss the following questions.

1. Have you ever stayed in a hotel? When did you stay there?

2. Was the hotel good?

3. What facilities did it have?

4. Was the service good?

5. Where did you have breakfast / dinner?

Task 2. For each of the six questions choose the correct answer.

1. I'm on a tight budget so I'll be staying in a _____ hotel while I'm travelling around Japan this year.

a) budget-star

b) tight budget

c) five-star

d) budget

2. I never know how much you're supposed to tip a _____. He carries your bags up to your room so it's quite a hard job. Do you think two dollars is enough?

a) housekeeper

b) porter

c) receptionist

d) concierge

3. If you want to find the best bars in the city, ask the _____. And then she'll wave down taxi for you right outside the hotel.

a) concierge

b) receptionist

c) porter

d) chambermaid

4. I told the _____ we were very cold last night and she said she'd ask the _____ for some extra blankets for us.

a) porter / receptionist

b) chambermaid / housekeeper

c) porter / concierge

d) housekeeper / chambermaid

5. My husband snores so much that when we go on holiday I always book us into two _____ rather than a _____. It's a little bit more expensive but it's the only way I ever get an undisturbed night's sleep.

a) five star hotels / double room

b) single rooms / double room

c) family rooms / single room

d) double rooms / single room

6. When I travel on my own and want to save money. I stay in a _____ in a _____ hotel.

a) twin room / family

b) twin room / budget

c) family room / five-star

d) single room / budget

Read and translate the text

Accommodation in Britain (Part I)

The choice of accommodation available in Britain is vast. It includes hotels, inns, ‘bed and breakfasts’, farmhouses and self-catering establishments  the list goes on and on. Stay at a castle that’s been converted into a hotel, or at a historic country inn, with low, wood-beamed ceilings — at some establishments you can even sleep in a four-poster bed! Wherever you stay, you’ll be pleased with the quality, friendly service and value-for-money.