Agree or disagree with the following statements. Give your reasons

Use:

For disagreement: For agreement:

- that's not quite right... - that's right...

- Oh, no, quite on the contrary... - exactly...

- It says in the text... - I agree entirely..

1) A hotel is a temporary home for people who are travel­ling.

2) The hotel usually does not offer facilities for recreation and never provides shelter and food.

3) By modern standards inns were a sort of luxury hotels with all kinds of recreational facilities.

4) The word "motel" was created by combining motor and hotel; it usually provides parking facilities for cars.

5) All hotels do not serve the same kind of guests.

6) Luxury hotels are at the bottom of the list comparing with the other kinds of hotels.

7) The difference in quality between hotels is not entirely a matter of equipment or furnishings.

6. Fill in the blanks with prepositions:

(1) The hotel may also provide facilities... recreation. (2)... Europe and America, inns and taverns were spaced... the roads... the distance a horse could travel... a day. (3) Modern mass transportation, that is, the movement... large numbers... peo­ple... relatively low prices, began... the development... the rail­roads... the 19^th century. (4) Another way... categorizing ho­tels... its quality... service they offer. (5) This system puts the top hotels... a special deluxe category,... other receiving... five stars... one star or "A's". (6)... a luxury hotel, there may be three employees... every guest room. (7) The proportion... employees... guests and guest rooms is also a matter... prime importance. (8) Engineering and maintenance... a small estab­lishment may be done... contract... local firms, whereas a large hotel will hire its own staff... these functions. (9)... a large com­mercial hotel... a big city, the ratio is usually closer... one em­ployee... guest room. (10) The traveller usually had to share his bed...... least one other person, and as many as four other per­sons... some remote areas.

7. Fill in the spaces in the following sentences with the appropriate word or phrase:

1) The word "motel" is a combination of the words... and....

2)... include such things as shelter, food and special servic­es for travellers.

3)... and... were places for the accommodation of travel­lers in Europe and America when most people travel by horse.

4) A... is an establishment that provides not only accom­modations for travellers but also parking space for their cars.

5) A... area is a place that people visit for recreational pur­poses.

6) A... hotel provides accommodations for people who do not wish to keep house themselves.

7) The accommodations industry is... because it employs a large number of people.

8) A hotel in the... category may employ as many as three staff members per guest room.

6. Explain the meaning of the following terms:

Accommodations, inn, motel, resort, luxury hotel, B&B, air­port hotel, commercial hotel, guest house, resort hotel, hostel.