Lesson 1 – Monday 2nd February
0900 – 1115 12-15 minute break around 1020
sarah.muhlenbock@folkuniversitetet.se
Lesson 1- Aims
- Basic greetings & simple personal information.
- Alphabet and spelling names
- Days and dates
- Job roles in the hotel and restaurant industry.
- Common phrases when interracting with guests
- Rooms and facilities in a hotel
Introductions
Hello! My name is Sarah and I’m an English teacher. I live near Stockholm and I am from England. I speak English and Swedish. I’m happy to meet you! Welcome to our course!
English is my mother tongue.
Turkish is my mother tongue. “tung”
My son is bilingual – he speaks both Swedish and English.
- What’s your name? Where do you live? My name’s Sarah I . I live in Stockholm. Gothenburg.
- Where are you from? I’m from the UK/Russia
- What languages do you speak? English/Swedish/Russian is my mother tongue and I also speak Swedish and a little bit of English.
- What is your mother tongue?
- What do you do? What’s your profession? What do you do for a living? I’m a waiter/a waitress, I’m a teacher, I’m a circle leader, I’m a breakfast waitress. I was a chief accountant, but now I’m retired. Just now, I’m taking a course.
- What kind of job are you looking for? I’m looking for work as a … I want to work as a. I want to work in reception. A technician “teck-nish-un”. I’m planning to start a bed and breakfast together with some friends. I want to work in the hotel business, the hospitality industry (=hotels and restaurants)
- I don’t know at the moment
- A housewife – a homemaker (USA)
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
- Vowels a e i o u
- consonants b, c, d etc
Pronunciation
- G “Gee” djee giraffe Japanese
- J “Jay”
- U “you” V “vee”
- W double “you”
- J“djay” dJapan, djungle, juice,
- Y yesterday, yoghurt
- Y “why”
- Z “zed” (BrE) “zee” (USA)
- I “eye”
How do you spell your first/family name? S-a-r-a-h
My name’s Aiko. Could you spell that please? A-i-k-o
Gh “ff”
Enough “enuff”
H “aitch” “haitch” (Ireland)
dJanuary
Aypril
- Tuesday “Chtyoos. Day”
- Wednesday “Wennsday”
- Thursday
- Friday
- Saturday
- Sunday
- Monday
What is the best day of the week? It’s a day off from work
You can have a lie-in on Sundays. A lazy day at home.
Friday is my favourite day because I can look forward to the weekend.
I’m looking forward to the summer
No day is better than another.
“The” first “of” February,
The second, the third, the fourth, the fifth, the sixth, “siksth”, the seventh, the eighth, the ninth, the tenth, the eleventh, the twelfth, the thirteenth, the fourteenth, the fifteenth, the sixteenth, the seventeenth
The twentieth “twen-tee-yuth” the thirtieth “thur-tee-yuth”
The twenty-fifth
The thirty-first
- What day is it today? It’s Monday
- What is the date today?
- What day was it yesterday? It was Sunday
- What date was it yesterday? It was the first of February
- What date was it the day before yesterday? It was “the” 31st January (BrE) January 31st (USA)
- What day will it be tomorrow?
- What date will it be tomorrow? It will be 3rd February 3 February Always say “the” “of”
- What day will it be the day after tomorrow?
- What date is your birthday? My birthday is on “the”26th December on a day
- When does Easter Sunday fall this year? It’s on the fifth of April
- Easter is a movable feast
- Which date is New Year’s Eve? It’s the 31st “of” December
- Christmas Eve, Midsummer’s Eve
- What is the first date of the year? It’s “the” first of January
- When is your birthday?
The day, the month, the year, the baby, the drink
Thee eleventh, theeelephant
Theeanniversary, “thee” angel
Theeisland
Thee orange
a day
an elephant
a “norange” a nangel
What did you do in the break?
- “have” I had a cup of tea, I had a cup of strong black coffee
- I spent some time with my baby
- I gave her a bottle of milk
- feed – fed
- I fed her breakfast, I fed the cat,
- Bottled water or tap water?
- Still water or sparkling water?
- I prefer…. Which do you prefer?
Jobs in hotels and restaurants
He’s a chef.
A school cook (lower status, less trained)
He’s a bus driver. He drives a limousine = he’s a chauffeur
They’re kitchen porters (BrE/Ireland) They’re dishwashers (US)
They work in potwash.
She’s a housekeeper. He’s a repairman/ a maintenance man. He works in maintenance.
We reported the problem to reception and they called maintenance.
He’s a concierge. He’s a doorman. He’s a waiter, she’s a waitress. They are waiting staff.
They’re events (wedding reception, 50th birthday) organisers, a conference organiser
She’s the hotel manager.
What’s his/her job? Where does he/she work? What are their jobs? Where do they work?
- He’s a chef. He works in a (hotel/restaurant)
- She’s a bar She works in a bar.
- They’re receptionists. They works in reception
- They’re kitchen assistants/kitchen porters. They work in the kitchen.
- What’s her job? Where does she work?
- She’s a bartender. She works in a bar
- She’s a housekeeper. She works in housekeeping.
- He’s a repairman/a maintenance man. He works in maintenance
- He’s a ….
- He’s a ….
- He’s a ….
What are their jobs? What do they do? Where do they work?
- They’re receptionists. They work in reception/in a hotel.
English grammar
- Man – what’s his job?
- Woman – What’s her job?
- More than one person – What are their jobs?
- Where do they work?
- The bartender works in the hotel bar
- The bartenders work in the hotel bar.
- Where does the bartender work?
- Where do the bartenders work?