Vocabulary

to book = to reserve — бронювати місця

in advance [əd'va:ns] — авансом, заздалегідь, наперед

to check in — реєструвати(ся), записувати(ся)

tip — гроші «на чай»; давати «на чай»

chamber-maid ['tʃeɪmbəmeɪd] — покоївка

EXERCISES

I. Put these sentences in а logical order. Then retell the text.

1. I paid my bill.

2. I checked in at reception.

3. I left the hotel.

4. I went up to my room.

5. I spent the night in the hotel.

6. I had an early morning call at seven о 'clock.

7.I booked a room at the hotel.

8. I went out for dinner in a local restaurant.

9. I arrived at the hotel.

10.I got up and had a shower.

11.I had breakfast.

12.I tipped the porter who carried my luggage upstairs.

II. What would you say in these situations?

I. You want to stay in a hotel for two nights next week with your husband/wife. You phone the hotel. What do you ask or say?

2. You are at the hotel reception and you are planning to leave in about 15 minutes. What could you ask the receptionist?

3. You want to wake up at 7 a.m. but you don't have an alarm clock. What do you ask reception ?

4. You have a drink in the hotel bar. The barman asks how you want to pay. What's your reply?

5. When you turn on the shower in your room, the water comes out very very slowly. What could you say at reception ?

6. You want to go to the nearest bank but don't know where it is. What do you ask at reception ?

III. You are staying in quite a good hotel (e.G. Two-star or three-star) in your country. Would you expect to have the following?

1) a room without a private bathroom

2) a hairdryer in the bathroom

3) a colour television in the room

4) a telephone in the room

5) writing-paper in the room

6) a machine for making tea and coffee in the room

7) an electric trouser press (a machine which presses/irons your trousers for you) in the room

8) air conditioning in the room

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A constitutional court is a high court that deals primarily with constitutional law. Its main authority is to rule on whether or not laws that are challenged are in fact unconstitutional, i.e. whether or not they conflict with constitutionally established rights and freedoms.

Many countries do not have separate constitutional courts, but instead delegate constitutional judicial authority to their supreme court. Nonetheless, such courts are sometimes also called "constitutional courts"; for example, some have called the Supreme Court of the United States "the world's oldest constitutional court" because it was the first court in the world to invalidate a law as unconstitutional (Marbury v. Madison), even though it is not a separate constitutional court.

The first seperate Court designed for judicial review was the Austrian constitutional court. Although Czechoslovakia was the first country to adopt a constitution which provided for a review of acts of parliament's constitutionality by a special court on February 2, 1920, the Austrian Court had taken up its duties a year earlier in 1919 but was only alowed to revise laws of the federal states until the new Costitution was adopted in 1920. Before that, only the U.S., Norway, and Australia had adopted the concept of judicial review through their supreme courts.