Unit 2. Business trip abroad. At the hotel.

Topical vocabulary

manager - управляющий

receptionist - регистратор

reception desk/counter - бюро регистрации

hotel clerks/attendants - служащие/персонал гостиницы

porter/doorman (Am.) - швейцар

guest/arrival - гость/приезжий

to engage a room/to check in (Am.) - остановиться в гостинице

to depart/to check out (Am.) - выехать из гостиницы

to vacate the room - освободить комнату

duration of stay – продолжительность пребывания

fill in (up) a form – заполнять бланк (анкету)

permanent address – постоянный адрес

to check the luggage/baggage (Am.) - сдать багаж

single/double room – одноместная/двухместная комната

communicating rooms – смежные комнаты

(chamber) maid, bell-boy - горничная, коридорный/посыльный

express/urgent service - срочное обслуживание

laundry, laundress - прачечная; прачка

(to) tip/extra pay - (давать) чаевые; дополнительная оплата

to make out the bill – выписывать счет

cancellation – отмена, отказ (то заказа)

 

Phrases to Remember

An arrival - приезжий

I have a (confirmed) reservation — Для меня забронирована ком­ната.

Have you got any vacant rooms? — У Вас есть свободные номера?

Will you give us an early call tomorrow morning? — Разбудите нас, пожалуйста, рано утром.

Get my bill ready, please! - Приготовьте счет, пожалуйста!

 

Reception clerk - администратор

The hotel is full — В гостинице мест нет.

Will you, please, fill in/up these forms? — Пожалуйста, заполните бланки.

Kindly sign the hotel register — Пожалуйста, распишитесь в книге приезжающих.

You must vacate the room in due time — Вы должны освободить комнату в назначенное время.

 

1. Read and translate the dialogues. Compose your own dialogues on the same situations:

A.

A.: Could you give me the name of a good hotel to stop at?

В.: I will make out a list of several hotels for you to choose from.

A.: How will I manage getting there?

В.: The taxi driver will take you to the different addresses.

A.: Is it necessary to reserve your hotel room?

В.: That depends on the season. At the rush tourist season you have to make your hotel reservations two or three months in advance.

 

B. Engaging a room

Guest: Excuse me, have you got any vacant room?

Room-Clerk: Single or double, Sir?

G.: Two singles, please.

R.C.: Which floor would you like, Sir?

G.: It's all the same to us. Do we have to pay by the day or by the week?

R.C.: By the day, Sir. Will you, please, fill up these forms, Sir?

G.: Christian name, surname, nationality, place and date of birth... Shall I fill in my permanent address and oc­cupation?

R.C.: Yes, please. And the date of arrival and departure. How long are you going to stay?

G.: About ten days or so.

R.C.: Your signature, Sir. Sign here, please. The bell-boy will show you to your rooms. Here is the key.

G.: Shall we leave the suitcases in the lobby?

R.C.: Do, please. The porter will take your cases up immediately. Would you like morning tea in your room?

G.: Yes, and the morning papers, please.

R.C.: Certainly, Sir.

 

C. Leaving the hotel

Guest: I'm leaving today. Get my bill ready, please!

Reception clerk: Certainly. It will be ready in due time.

G.: When must I vacate the room?

R.C.: It must be vacated in two hours' time.

G.: Please, will you send my mail to...

R.C.: O.K. I'll write down the address.

G.: Thanks. And now could you direct me to the nearest bank? I want to change some foreign currency. I wonder, what’s the rate of exchange?

 

 

2. Read and compose your own dialogues combining the following phrases:

1 2 3

A. Have you a single room for two nights?     C. Yes, but only on the top floor.     A. What’s the price? C: £ 4.50 with service and TV.   A: Fair enough. Can you show me the room? C: Of course. Would you like to follow me?

Can I book a double room from now until Friday?   You can have Room 33 overlooking the sea.   What does it cost? £ 4.20 not counting the service. Can you show me something a little cheaper? Yes, of course. Would you take a seat for a moment?

I wonder whether you have any vacancies for tonight.   Yes, I can offer you Room 24 on the first floor or 11 on the ground floor. How much is it?   £ 2.90 a night excluding service.   Can I have a look at it, please?   Certainly. Come this way.

 

Complete the dialogue. Work in pairs.

Receptionist: Good afternoon, Sir. What can I do for you?

Petrov: ….

R. Have you booked a room?

P.: Yes, …

R.: Oh, yes, Mr.Petrov, we’ve got your telex of 5^th April and we have reserved a single room for you on the fourth floor.

P.: …

R.: Yes, it has a private bathroom and all other modern conveniences. If you like, I can offer you another room on the third floor which is very quiet, but it is smaller and has no TV set in it.

P.: …

R.: You can leave your case here, the porter will take it to your room. Here is your key, Sir. Breakfast is served from 7.30 a.m.

P.: …

R.: You are welcome. I hope you enjoy your stay with us.

Unit 3. My future profession

Topical vocabulary

profession профессия, специальность

responsibility ответственность

the military profession военная специальность

to specialize in специализироваться

to make up one's mind решать

school-leaving certificate аттестат о среднем образовании

job/ occupation занятие, работа

science and technology наука и техника

applied linguistics прикладная лингвистика

lawyer юрист

journalist журналист

interpreter переводчик

scientist ученый

economist экономист

sailor моряк

to choose a career выбирать профессию

general education общее образование

skilled опытный

qualified квалифицированный

employment занятость

dedication посвящение

competence компетенция

commerce торговля

marketing маркетинг

advertising реклама

promotion продвижение

to apply to the University поступать в университет

(enter the University)

to leave (finish) school заканчивать школу

to get interested in интересоваться

to earn money зарабатывать деньги

to succeed in преуспевать, достигать цели

to work as an accountant работать бухгалтером

to work at an office работать в офисе

 

Phrases to remember

What is your job? Чем вы занимаетесь?

What are you? Кто вы по профессии?

I wonder, what are you going Интересно, что вы собираетесь

to do after leaving school? делать после окончания школы?

 

 

1. Read and translate the text:

Finishing school is the beginning of an independent life for millions of school-leavers. It is the beginning of a far more serious examination of your knowledge, abilities and character. We usually say that all roads are open before our school-leavers: vocational and technical schools, insti­tutes and universities. But actually it is very difficult to make up one's mind and choose one of the hundreds of jobs. While at school I changed my mind a lot of times and couldn't decide which science or field of industry to specialize in.

At schools we have industrial training centers that are supposed to help in choosing a job. Teachers and parents also advise pupils, but still very few of them take a clear-cut view of what they want to do. Generally pupils are not realistic in thinking about jobs. They have dreams of playing football for some big clubs, or becoming pop stars, or heart transplant surgeons or international experts of some kind. Teachers and parents try to channel that en­thusiasm into something more realistic, to get the pupils away from their fantasy level without knocking the dream completely. But often it doesn't work and school-leavers get disappointed in life.

While choosing a job many factors should be taken into consideration: wages and salaries, job-satisfaction, oppor­tunities to travel and to see much, etc.

 

2. Read the text and answer the following questions:

What's An Occupation?

An occupation is a business, trade or employment that occupies one's time either permanently or as a hobby. It's an activity of any kind for which a person has the necessary qualifications and training: " I am by occupation a teacher, and he is by occupation a taxi-driver."

What is a " trade"? A " trade" is a way of making a living, especially a handicraft. He is a carpenter (a tailor) by trade. Shoemaking is a useful trade. Trade schools teach different trades, for example: cooking, furniture-making, operating different machines. In these schools you can get training in any trade you may choose. There are many trades; all of them are important and useful. Why not learn the trade of a turner, a fitter or a bricklayer after you finish school? Workers of these trades are always in great demand.

What is a " profession"? It is an occupation, especially one, requiring advanced education and special training. For example: the law, architecture, teaching, medicine. He is a lawyer by profession.

Some of you may already know what occupation you wish to follow, what you will be by trade or profession. Others of you have not yet made your decision. There are so many different trades and professions today, that it is not easy to decide.

permanent - постоянный

qualification - квалификация

a carpenter - плотник

a tailor - портной

to operate a machine - работать на станке (управлять машиной).

a turner - токарь

a fitter - слесарь;

a bricklayer– каменщик

1) What is an occupation?

2) What is your mother's (father's) occupation?

3) What is a trade? What trades do you know?

4) What schools teach different trades?

5) What is a profession?

6) Where can you be taught a profession?

7) What professions can you name?

8) Do you know what trade or profession you will enter?

 

3. Read and retell the text, use the questions below:

Choosing a profession

" What do you want to be when you grow up? " You have heard this question many times during your school years, haven't you? Perhaps it was difficult for you to give a definite answer, perhaps it wasn't. Perhaps you changed your mind as the years passed about which science or field of industry you would like to specialize in. There are always some boys and girls who know very well what they are going to do after leaving school.

Because of the wide difference in jobs, you should find out all you can about any job which interests you. This can be done by going to the library and by reading widely, and also by talking to adults who have different kinds of jobs. You also need to think about how well you can do what you would like to do.

Perhaps the best way to prepare for any job is to get a good education - to do well at school, and to learn all you can outside of school. Jobs change and new ones are constantly appearing. Some years from now there will be many more new jobs.

1. Is there a great variety of jobs in our country?

2. Can our young people choose any profession they like?

3. Is higher education available to those who work?

4. Is it easy to choose a profession?

5. What profession can you get at the Institute (at the
vocational school)?

6. Who helped you to make your choice?

7. What was your favorite subject at school?

8. Why have you chosen your profession?

9. Do you know much about your future profession?

10. What other jobs do you know?

11. Which of them do you like? Why?

12. What fields of science are you going to apply
your knowledge of English?

 

4. Discuss with your friend:

a) what professions he knows; what professions he
likes most of all; what his father's (mother's, sister's)
profession is; what he will do if he doesn't enter the Insti­tute.

b) why he has chosen this profession; why he doesn't
want to be an engineer; why he didn't enter the Institute
last year.

c) who influenced the choice of his profession; who his
favorite teacher was; who his teacher of English was.

d) whether he knows much of his profession; whether
he knows about the difficulties of his future profession;
whether his parents are satisfied with his choice.

 

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