2/21/2012

Hotel towel and linen program (audio)




















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lick HERE or on the Play Button to listen to the audio file

(a) After listening to the audio file, please answer as many of the following questions as possible:

1. Who can do what?
2. What can they do?
3. How can they do it?
4. How many can do it?
5. Where can they do it?
6. How many consequences of doing it are mentioned?
7. Do most people do it?




(b) Vocabulary
Below each word you will find 2 options. Please choose the right synonym

1. Ordinary
1.1 vulgar
1.2 usual

2. Venue
2.1 place of an event
2.2 street where somebody lives

3. Since
3.1 because
3.2 from that moment on

4. Patrons
4.1 owner
4.2 client

5. Grouse
5.1 complain
5.2 love

And now provide the context in which the words are used.





(c) Provide the questions for the following answers

1) more than 15,000 US hotels and motels
2) to save energy costs
3) because housekeepers need less time to clean a room
4) by hanging up the towels
5) not everybody
6) because they pay a lot for a room







Photos: Phil Bartle, Flicr Creative Commons and Marriot Hotels