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T.V. GROUDKINA

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HOTEL Part One

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When you are to visit any place and stay there for some days, or if you have to move from one town to another because of your job, you prefer to feel comfortable during your trips. The best way to have comfort is to stay at a good hotel. There are different types of hotels: large and small, expensive and rather cheap, top and average, state and private. Each hotel has a constant range of facilities. There are some single and double rooms in it. Top exclusive hotels have also “suits”: special several room apartments for rich and important guests. Hotel rooms can be front or back. Back rooms are cheaper, but as a rule, they are much quieter. Usually every room has a private bathroom and a toilet, a telephone & a TV set. Modern hotel apartments are equipped with a conditioner and a satellite TV. Bathrobes are also provided in the rooms. Expensive hotels have some extra facilities, such as swimming pools, thermal baths, saunas, fitness rooms, gymnasiums, cinema complexes, discotheques, nightclubs, sport grounds and courts, beauty salons and others. Almost every hotel has common room services: wake-up, laundry, pressing, dry cleaning, hair dressing and shoe-polishing. They are very important for guests.

Usually the price for the room includes breakfast, but light snacks are served in a hotel bar and meals are available in a restaurant. Top hotels offer their guests special diets. If a guest prefers some special food, he is to inquire with the dispatcher of the hotel. Hotel room service staff helps the guests to accommodate. The staff consists of bell-boys, chambermaids, receptionists (desk-clerks), lift-boys, dispatchers, porters, waiters and a captain. They do their best to help you feel comfortable at the hotel. It’s usual to tip them. When you want to stay at a hotel you’d better book a room in advance. You can send a telegram or a fax to the hotel reservation department. Without saying you are to pay some extra money for booking a room in advance, but it saves you of some troubles. If you want to accommodate at a hotel, you are to fill the accommodation card, write your name, surname, nationality or citizenship, sex: male or female, marital status: married or single. Your passport is necessary. Usually an accommodation booking form is filled in capital letters. Some hotels have special facilities for children and even pets. But you are to know this for sure before come to the hotel with your baby or your dog. Usually some souvenir shops and news-stands are located in a hotel.

VOCABULARY

(a) hotel – гостиница

(a) trip – поездка, путешествие

(a) way – способ

expensive – дорогой

cheap – дешевый

top – высшего класса

average – среднего класса

state – государственный

private – частный

(a) range – набор

(a) facility – удобство

(a) single-room – одноместный номер

(a) double-room – двухместный номер

(a) suit – номер «люкс»

(a) several-room apartment – апартаменты из нескольких комнат

(a) guest – гость, постоялец

(a) front room – номер окнами на фасад

(a) back room – номер окнами во двор

as a rule – как правило

quiet – тихий, спокойный

(to) be equipped – быть снабженным

(a) bathrobe – банный халат

extra – дополнительный

wake up – побудка

laundry – прачечная

pressing – гладильня

dry cleaning – химчистка

shoe-polishing – чистка обуви

(to) include – включать (в себя)

light snacks – легкие закуски

(to) be served – быть сервированным, поданным

(to) be available – быть доступным, иметься в распоряжении

(to) inquire – узнать, навести справки

staff – штат, персонал

(to) accommodate – поселиться (в гостинице), освоиться, привыкнуть

(a) bell-boy – коридорный

(a) chambermaid – горничная

(a) receptionist (desk-clerk) – диспетчер

(a) waiter – официант

(a) porter – портье, швейцар

(a) captain – мертдотель

(to) tip – давать на чай

room-service – обслуживание номеров

(to) do one’s best – делать все возможное

(to) book забронировать,

(to) reserve резервировать

in advance – заранее

reservation department– служба предварительного заказа номеров

without saying – разумеется, без сомнения

(to) pay – платить

(to) save – избавлять

accommodation card– карточка гостя

for sure – наверняка, точно

marital status – семейное положение

married – женат (замужем)

citizenship – гражданство

male – мужской

female – женский

(a) news-stand – газетный киоск

message – сообщение, послание

TASKS TO THE TEXT

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Give Russian equivalents to:

Top expensive private hotel, constant range of facilities, special several room apartment, as a rule, much more quiet, to be equipped with conditioners, to provide, some extra facilities, sauna, fitness room, cinema complex, nightclub, to be important for, hotel laundry, including breakfast, shoe-polishing, in advance, to stay at a hotel, hotel staff, to book a double room by phone, receptionist, chambermaid, with capital letters, to know for sure, to tip a porter, female sex, British citizenship, single front room with a private bathroom.

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Chose the right word (see the list below):

1. Only … hotels have suits.
2. A man who stays at a hotel is usually called a ….
3. … Rooms are quieter than … rooms.
4. Swimming pools, fitness rooms and night clubs are extra ….
5. If you need have your shoes shined, you are to ask for … service.
6. Light snacks are … in a bar.
7. You’d better … a room in advance.
8. You need your main document – … to stay at a hotel.
9. Usually accommodation booking forms are filled by… letters.
10. The first hotel staff member who you meet is ….

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Facilities, book, porter, exclusive, back, shoe-polishing, front, guest, served, capital, passport.

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Translate into Russian:

1. A man who travels a lot often needs a hotel.
2. Small and rather cheap hotels are the most popular among average people.
3. Usual facilities which a hotel offers to its guests are: single and double rooms, private baths, TV sets & phones.
4. A bathroom is equipped with bath things and also bathrobes.
5. A guest who lives in a top expensive hotel can relax in a night club or a discotheque.
6. If you need get up early in the morning, a chambermaid can wake you by phone or by knock at the door.
7. A proverb says, “He drinks cognac who is tipped”.
8. You can’t have an accommodation at a hotel without your passport.
9. Booking a room by computer net is becoming more popular now.
10. If you have a baby with you at a hotel, it may be looked after by a nurse.

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Give English equivalents to:

Дать на чай, коридорный, легкие закуски, прачечная, номер «люкс», удобства, обслуживание гостиничных номеров, регистратор, забронировать комнату, остановиться в гостинице, быть снабженным (чем-то), заранее, горничная, химчистка, карточка гостя, штат обслуги, дорогой отель, удобный двухместный номер, заполнить бланк, двойное гражданство, мужской пол, национальность, спутниковое телевидение, салон красоты, газетный киоск, почтовое сообщение.

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Arrange the following words in pairs of:

a) antonyms

1) Single, fine, to send, large, quiet, exclusive, top, expensive, state, male.

2) Small, cheap, average, private, double, dirty, to get, noisy, popular, female.

b) synonyms

1) Constant, a receptionist, to book, nationality, a department, in advance, a chambermaid, pressing, a captain, meals, a trip.

2) A desk-clerk, a tour, a room maid, usual, food, ironing, a manager, an office, to reserve, beforehand, citizenship.

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Answer the following questions:

1. What types of hotels do you know about from the text?
2. What does “a suit” mean?
3. What kind of a room is more expensive: single or double?
4. What facilities does each hotel room have?
5. How can you book a room in advance?
6. What are the members of a hotel staff?
7. What does usually the price for the room include?
8. What things are modern hotel apartments equipped with?
9. What extra facilities do expensive hotels have?
10. Where a guest can have meals?

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Ask some questions for these answers:

1. Large top private hotels are more expensive.
2. They help tourists feel comfort during their trips.
3. Only exclusive hotels have such facilities.
4. A guest usually has meals in a bar or a restaurant.
5. No, they don’t. Chambermaids clean rooms.
6. They do their best to help guests to accommodate.
7. You can tip him.
8. A tourist sends a telegram or a fax or e-mail message.
9. He helps you with the documents.
10. Yes, he does. A guest needs his passport.

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Explain the meaning of the following terms in English:

ü Average hotel

ü Room reservation office

ü Accommodation card

ü Hotel post office service

ü Five stars hotel

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Fill in the accommodation card:

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