Homework from Lesson 11
Today’s homework is mostly self-study! We looked at so many different grammar points today, you can choose what you need to have extra practice with as different members of the group had different challenges.
Try some of these websites for further practice of what we looked at in class today:
- Verbs and prepositions
- Adjectives and prepositions
- This is a clear presentation of the different conditionals in English, including the third conditional and mixed conditionals: All conditionals in English
- This presentation focuses on the second conditional
- Word order in question forms
- some or any?
- A clear presentation of when to use some or any: How to use some and any
Lesson 10
Read through the notes about checking in from the class today.
These are the receptionist phrases we didn’t have time to look at, so just check you understand them:
Receptionist Phrases:
• What’s your room number?
• Just a moment, I’ll prepare your bill.
• Your bill includes (room service/breakfast/taxes).
• Have you used/had anything from the minibar?
• Your payment has gone through.
• How will you be paying? Would you like to pay in cash or by card?
• Would you like a printed or digital receipt?
• We hope you had a pleasant stay.
• Let me know if you need help with your luggage.
• Do you need transportation to the airport?
• Please return your key card before leaving.
• If you have any questions, feel free to ask.
• We hope to see you again soon!
Before Thursday, see how many of these errors you can fix in the following sentences:
I want check out now.
I didn’t used the minibar.
How much I must pay?
How much it costs?
Do you can call me a taxi?
There is a mistake in my bill, I think.
I can pay with cash?
I must to pay extra?
The checkout time is what?
I need leave my luggage here.
I lose my key card.
I need some informations.
Please explain me the bill.
I will do the payment now.
I wait the taxi outside.
Lesson 9
Do something fun this weekend and tell us about it on Monday!
Finish the phrasal verb worksheet (I have emailed this)
If you want to study more phrasal verbs, here are some useful links:
Choose something from BBC Learning English Six Minute English to listen to (and read). I would recommend something related to food, but you are free to choose. You can tell your classmates on Monday what you chose and what is was about.
I will add Unit 12 later.
Lesson 8
Practice the dialogues that we looked at in class today.
If you would like to improve your pronuniciation, here is a useful tutorial from Oxford English: English pronunciation secrets – 5 tips to improve English pronunciation Switch on the subtitles (text) to help you.
Lesson 7
Read through the lesson notes and practice the dialogues.
Book – Read the conversation on page 33 and complete the sentences in a suitable way.
Book – page 34. Read the presentation and try the listening exercise. Answers are below:
Listen to “Clear and Polite” and check your pronunciation:
Answers to page 33
- Is everything on the menu?
- Is that the caesar salad or the mixed green salad?
- Would you like anything else?
- Right, so that’s the mixed green salad, the sesame salmon, the penne pasta and garlic bread.
- And what’s your room number, please?
- It will be ready in about 15 minutes.
Answers to page 34
- Guest 1 : B, No, closed 5 pm
- Guest 2 : E, Yes, 6 pm
- Guest 3 : C, No, 8 pm
- Guest 4 : A, No, 8 am
- Guest 5 : D, No, 8.30 am
Lesson 6
Read through today’s notes and practice the dialogues.
Online practice: BBC Learning English: Fun vs funny – English in a minute
Tomorrow we will look at “Room services” Unit 7 in the coursebook. I will email the pages.
Lesson 5
Please read through all the notes from the classes this week and catch up with any of the homework below.
If you would like to practise telling the time and describing the services available in a hotel, please do work through Unit 5 (emailed to you)
Here is the audio from page 24: LISTENING AND PRONUNCIATION Being clear and polite. Listen to the sentences and repeat them.
Lesson 4
Pronunciation: I really recommend this pronunciation dictionary to help you with individual words. Look up words like “vegetable” and it will give you both the US and British pronunciation. https://dictionary.cambridge.org/pronunciation/
Listening: You can listen to this sample conversation for ordering food. It’s slow, but clear with good expressions (but don’t use as many “sirs”! as they do:
Ordering Food at a Restaurant – British English Conversation – Learn English
Book: If you have the book “Be my guest” please go to Unit 10, page 44 “In the restaurant” and work through 10.1 (match the pictures to the dialogue and then listen and check your answers here:
You can then listen to “Being clear and polite” below.
Go to 10.3 and work on the language focus exercises “Greeting the guest” and “building the conversation”
Lesson 3
If you would like more practice with prepositions of time, you can try these websites:
British Council – Prepositions of time: ‘at’, ‘in’, ‘on’
at, in, on – prepositions of time from Test English
Please visit these restaurants’ websites and study their menus.
https://www.beefeaterpattaya.com/our-menu/
Choose your favourite restaurant and what you would like to eat and drink from the menu. Tomorrow you will practice ordering and taking orders. Please make a note of any new vocabulary. What do you like about the restaurant?
Lesson 2
Read through all the notes from class and make notes of the phrases that were new and useful for you: Notes from the lesson
Prepositions of time (emailed)
Writing (optional) Choose a job and describe your day! (real or imaginary)
Explore the subject of the weather with this video: British weather LearnEnglish Teens
Lesson 1
Read through all the notes from class and make notes of the phrases that were new and useful for you: Notes from the lesson
If you would like to practise the differences between present simple and continuous, you can visit these websites:
If you would like to listen and watch a check in scenario, try this one: Checking into a hotel
If you would like to review hotel vocabulary together with the pronunciation of the words, try this: British Council Learn English – hotels
Welcome to the course! My name is Sarah and I will be the teacher for the course starting on Monday. We start at 09.30, with a 12-minute break at around 10.40.
Here are some questions to prepare before Lesson 1. Please click here: Task for Lesson 1
Please make sure you can log in to Zoom and access our course.
https://folkuniversitetet-se.zoom.us/j/66010117426?pwd=OKBV8D2eIYll07rwOZZ2EzmesKTdnX.1
Mötes-ID: 660 1011 7426 Lösenkod: 401751
This will be a fairly large class so we will use breakout rooms. Click here for instructions: How to use breakout rooms in Zoom
Please buy the book: Be My Guest, Francis O’Hara (Cambridge University Press, ISBN 9780521776899) We will use this mostly for homework.