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Hotel Reservations: Warm-Up

The document provides a lesson on hotel vocabulary and making hotel reservations, including a listening activity where students book a hotel room and practice polite questions and responses. Students role play as a hotel receptionist and guest booking a room, providing details about arrival date, length of stay, room type, and payment method.

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Hotel Reservations: Warm-Up

The document provides a lesson on hotel vocabulary and making hotel reservations, including a listening activity where students book a hotel room and practice polite questions and responses. Students role play as a hotel receptionist and guest booking a room, providing details about arrival date, length of stay, room type, and payment method.

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Hotel reservations vocabulary: hotels

Warm-up
What type of hotels do you like? Do you have a favorite hotel? Why do you like it?

Activity 1: Language presentation/review


a. Read the text below. Are these sentences true or false?
1 The hotel was next to a church. TRUE / FALSE
2 Sara and her husband liked the hotel. TRUE / FALSE
3 The rooms had internet. TRUE / FALSE

b. Complete the text below using the words in the box.


room occupied reservation double stayed free available

Sara and her husband once 1______________ in an unusual hotel in Paris. It was part of an old
church. The hotel was fully 2_____________, but fortunately they had a 3______________. There
were no 4_____________ rooms 5_____________, so they had to take a twin 6_____________, but
it was worth it. The hotel was beautiful, the rooms were cozy, the beds were comfortable, and
there was 7__________ Wi-Fi.
c. Have you heard of any unusual hotels? Have you stayed in one? Tell your partner.

Activity 2: Listening
a. Sara’s manager needs to go to Paris on a business trip. Sara books a room for him at the
same hotel. Listen to the conversation with the hotel receptionist and complete the details.

HOTEL St. ANTOINE


First name:

Last name:

Date of arrival:

Number of nights:

Type of room:
Hotel reservations vocabulary: hotels

Activity 3: Language practice

a. The sentences below are from the conversation between Sara and the receptionist. They all
have a main verb and a modal verb in them. Complete the sentences using the modal verbs here.
You will need to use some more than once.

could would can should


1 How _________ I help you?
2 _________ I have your name, please?
3 _________ you give me his details, then?
4 _________ you spell the last name for me, please?
5 He _________ arrive at the hotel about 2.00pm.
6 _________ you like to pay by credit card?
b. Modal verbs are used for many different reasons. In which of the
sentences above are the modal verbs used to sound more polite?

Activity 4: Pronunciation
a. Words often sound different when in combination from how they
sound on their own. Listen to your teacher say the sentences in Activity
3 and repeat.
b. Ask your partner polite questions.
Could / give / address?
Could / show / the way?
Would / like to / have / a (single, double, twin) room?
c. Answer your partner’s questions.

Activity 5: Discussion
Work in pairs. One of you is the receptionist and the other
calls the hotel to book a room.

The receptionist starts. After the first conversation,


change roles.

Think about your details first:


When / arrive? _____________________________
How many / nights? _____________________________
What type of room? _____________________________
How / pay? _____________________________

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