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Post Type
Explainer
Level
Level 1 / A1
Published
Title
What Is a Hotel?
Webpage
https://eslnewsstories.com/explainers/what-is-a-hotel/

In this lesson:

  • Look First Use the image to start talking about the topic.
  • Words You Need Useful words and meanings before reading.
  • Read and Listen Read the text and follow the audio.
  • Understand It Check understanding with questions about the text.
  • Steps Put the steps in the correct order.
  • Chunks Place Complete location sentences with help from an image.
  • Chunks Repeat Repeat useful language patterns from the lesson.
  • Use It Use the new language to speak or write.
  • Answers Answer key for the printed tasks.

What Is a Hotel?

Level 1 Explainer

Start Here

Look First

A warm editorial illustration of a hotel lobby with a front desk, a receptionist helping a guest with a suitcase, another traveler entering with luggage, lounge chairs, plants, and an upper hallway with guest-room doors.
  1. What can you see?
  2. What are the people doing?

Before You Read

Words You Need

Learn

Read and Listen

Play the audio while you read, or listen after you read.

A hotel is a place where people stay when they are away from home. People often stay in hotels when they travel for work or go on vacation. Hotels can be small, or they can have hundreds of rooms.

Most hotel rooms have a bed, a bathroom, and a place to keep clothes and bags. Some rooms also have a desk, a television, or a small fridge. Larger hotels may have a restaurant, a swimming pool, or a gym.

When guests arrive, they usually go to the front desk. A hotel worker checks their booking and gives them a room key or key card. During their stay, guests can ask hotel workers for help or information.

Hotels have many different workers. Some welcome guests at the front desk, while others clean the rooms, prepare food, or carry bags. These workers help make the hotel comfortable.

When guests are ready to leave, they check out. They return their key and pay their bill. Then the room is cleaned for the next guest.

Quick Check

Understand It

  1. Every hotel has a swimming pool and a gym.
  2. People often stay in hotels when they travel.
  3. Guests usually go to the front desk when they arrive.
  4. What does a hotel worker give a guest?
  5. What happens to the room after a guest leaves?

Order

Steps

Put the hotel steps in order (1-4).

  1. Check out when you are ready to leave.
  2. Get your room key.
  3. Arrive at the hotel.
  4. Go to the front desk.

Build

Chunks

Place

  1. The front desk is .

  2. The pool is .

  3. The gym is .

  4. The rooms are .

on the fourth floor on the roof in the lobby on the second and third floors
Cropped cutaway illustration of a hotel showing, from top to bottom, a rooftop pool, a gym with exercise machines, two guest room floors, and a lobby front desk where a guest with a suitcase speaks to a hotel worker.

Repeat

Listen and Repeat. Hide the text and try again.

in the lobby
The front desk is in the lobby.
on the roof
The pool is on the roof.
on the fourth floor
The gym is on the fourth floor.
on the second and third floors
The rooms are on the second and third floors.

Now Try

Use It

Talk or write. Use the language from this lesson.

Supported output: A hotel room usually has...
Supported output: When guests arrive,...
Supported output: Hotel workers...
Recycle language: What is on the first floor of your school or building?
Extend topic: When did you last stay at a hotel?
Extend topic: What do you like to have in a hotel room?
Extend topic: Which hotel job would you like to do?
Extend topic: What makes a hotel comfortable for you?

Answers

What Is a Hotel? / Level 1

Understand It:

  1. False
  2. True
  3. True
  4. a room key
  5. it is cleaned

Steps:

  1. Arrive at the hotel.
  2. Go to the front desk.
  3. Get your room key.
  4. Check out when you are ready to leave.

Chunks: Place:

  1. The front desk is in the lobby.
  2. The pool is on the roof.
  3. The gym is on the fourth floor.
  4. The rooms are on the second and third floors.

KEEP GOING

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