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1. Answer the following questions:

1. What is a hotel? What does it provide for a traveller?

2. In the age of travel by horse, how were inns and taverns related to travel?

3. Why did old-fashioned inns become symbols of hospital­ity? What kind of image do they bring to mind for many people even at the present time?

4. What is meant by modern means of transportation? When did it begin?

5. What new development in the location hotels did the rail­roads bring about? What is the surviving example?

6. Do many people travel by car?

7. From what words was the word "motel" derived? What kinds of accommodations were offered?

8. What are some of the attractions that a resort may offer? Give your examples.

9. What are four broad categories in which it is possible to place hotels?

10. Are there any firm distinctions between hotels in the dif­ferent categories?

11. What is the other way of dividing hotels into categories? What kind of hotels are at the top? At the bottom?

12. Why are there comparable problems and opportunities in all hotels?

2. Read and pronounce correctly:

Access, facilities, recreation, designed, accommodation, tav­erns, automobile, inexpensive, extended, resort, scenery, clien­tele, transients, diversely, convention, urban, luxury, luxurious, merely, furnishings, employee, ratio, maintenance, shelter.

3. Find English equivalents in the text and use them in the sentences of your own:

(1) временный кров (2) предоставлять возможности для отдыха (3) средства передвижения (4) разработаны для раз­мещения путешественников (5) индустрия размещения (6) примитивны по современным стандартам (7) отдаленные районы (8) старомодные гостиницы (9) символ госте­приимства (10) относительно низкие цены (11) требовать большего комфорта (12) рукотворный (13) предоставлять обслуживание (14) банкетный зал (15) качество обслужива­ния (16) оборудование и обстановка (17) работники (18) вопрос первоначальной важности

4. Give synonyms to the following words:

1) hotel (2) facility (3) accommodation (4) luxurious (5) employee

5. 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.