Vocabulary notes
completion зд. завершение, окончание строительства transcontinental railroad транспортная ж/д магистраль
to accommodate предоставлять жилье, помещение для проживания
castle замок, дворец, большой дом (напоминающий замок) palatial зд. похожий на (настоящий) дворец; богатый, великолепный; богатство, роскошь grandeur грандиозность; великолепие; богатство, роскошь to renovate обновлять здание путем ремонта to refurbish (smth.) подновлять, освежать, наводить блеск (на что-либо) health club оздоровительный клуб
Case questions:
1. When did the Canadian Pacific Hotel company start?
2. What did it start with?
3. Where did William Cornelius Van Home decide to build a series of «dining stations»? What for?
4. Why did R.G. MacBeth call the hotels «palatial and romantic»?
5. When did Canadian Pacific begin to restore all of the hotels to their original grandeur?
6. What are typical City-Centre hotels normally equipped with?
7. Whom are work centers designed for?
Role-play:
Pretend you are a City-Centre hotel owner in Nizhny Novgorod, You are planning to renovate and refurbish the hotel to better meet business travelers' needs. What exactly will you be doing?
While making your decision consider the following possible steps:
• to restore the hotel to its original grandeur;
• to add two more restaurants and a health club;
• to equip rooms with modernized business amenities;
• to add a work center for business travelers.
2. Identify key points in the article and extract information from it to pass on to your partner.
3. Let your partner see whether key points identified by you are the same as those covered in the article. Let him agree or disagree with you.
Unit 4 types of hotels (Part 1)
Read and translate the following international words:
busyness
guest
luxury
concierge
fax
salon
condition
construct
ultimate
rate
center
boom
park
special
machine
convention
service
stimulate
airport
land
economy
residential
service
computer
urban
valet
doctor
project
major
2. Read and translate the following groups of words derived from a common root:
1. rest — unrest — restful — restive — restless — restlessly — rest – restaurant
2. limit — limited — unlimited — limitless — limitation
3. compete — competitive — competitor — competition
4. care — careful — carefully — carefulness — careless — carelessly – carelessness
Reading
3. Read the texts and translate them. While reading try and find answers to these questions:
1. Why were most downtown hotels constructed in waves?
2. Why do many airport hotels enjoy a high occupancy?
I, What helps to lower the rates in freeway hotels and motels?