Lesson 1 – Monday 16^th March

English for the Hotel and Restaurant industry A2+

0900 – 1115  12-minute break around 1030

Sarah Mühlenbock  sarah.muhlenbock@folkuniversitetet.se

I’m from a town in the UK, Hatfield, which is just north of London

How do you feel today! Write in the chat.

• 😀 I feel good
• 😃 excited
• 😅 a little nervous
• 😴 tired
• 😬 shy
• 💪 ready to learn

 

•  What time do the lessons begin?    9 o’clock, 9 am
• What time do they finish?  11.15
• What time approximately do we usually take a break?   Around 10.40

 

Aims

• Introductions and getting to know each other
• Ambitions for the course
• Talking about hotels
• Times
• Introduction and review of definite/indefinite articles

 

Introductions

Getting to know each other

1. What is your name?
2. Where do you live?
3. What is your mother tongue? My mother tongue is English, Thai    (native language)
4. What languages do you speak?
5. What do you do in your free time?

 

About the course

1. Why are you taking this course?
2. Do you want to work in a hotel or a restaurant?
3. How did you find out about this course?

 

Work experience

1. Have you worked in a hotel or a restaurant before?
2. Where did you work?
3. What was your job?

In breakout rooms get to know each other. Ask questions like:   –       Hi. Nice to meet you!  I’d like to know a little more about you. –       What do you like to do in your free time? –       What do you do to relax? –       Do you do any sport or training? How do you stay active? –       What is your experience of working in the hospitality industry?  (= restaurant/bar/hotel) –       Are you working or studying now? What do you like about your work or studies? –       What job do you want to do in the future?

 

• What more shall I say?   What else shall I say?
• Would you like anything else?
• Would you like some more water?
• Would you like some more bread?

 

• It’s useful for all the people.  It’s useful for everyone/everybody.
• All the people Everyone/Everybody should try it.

 

 

Your ambitions for this course:

 

• Why are you taking this course and what are your goals from the course?
• What do you need to improve? What is most important for you?

Pronunciation, everything 😊 , speaking, grammar,

• Tenses (past, present, future)
• Fluency, speak more naturally
• New words/vocabulary
• Everyday dialogues,
• “Swenglish”
• Listening

 

• How can the teacher help you?
• If you took the A2 course please tell your group what we did together, what you learned and what you would like to continue with?

 

• If you have taken a course before, what was most useful?
• What would you like to do that we didn’t do in the first course? What would you like to repeat? (returning students)

 

 

• I want to focus on hotel and restaurant vocabulary
• I listen much to English.     I listen a lot to English.   (a positive statement)
• I don’t listen a lot/much to English.
• Do you listen a lot/much to English?
• It doesn’t matter.
• I don’t listen very much …
• I don’t go there very often/very much.
• I go there a lot.

 

I don’t watch a lot of/many English films

Do you watch a lot of/many English films?

 

Much = uncountable.

Many = countable

 

There aren’t many/a lot of children here.

 

I like listening to audiobooks.  (=books that you listen to)

She works in the hospitality branch.   industry

There’s a local branch of Handelsbanken in my town.  (offices)

What times does the Umeå branch of SEB open?