Conversation 1

Date: 2015-10-07; view: 434.

Read the dialogues and fill in the grid with the phrases from Conversation 1.

CITY. ASKING FOR DIRECTIONS.

Some of you are hotel employees, the others are hotel guests. Guests take cards and complain about something or ask for something written on the card addressing an appropriate employee. Use the vocabulary from the dialogue and information above.

Match the complaints to the answers.

There are no towels in my room.

I can't get through to Japan.

My breakfast is late.

I'm still waiting for my luggage.

The air-conditioning doesn't work.

I'll contact the Room Service waiter.

I'll send the engineer from maintenance.

I'll get the housekeeper for you.

Please call the hotel operator.

The bell man is on his way.

1. Discuss with your partner:

What cities have you been to?

Where you impressed by them?

What places of interest have you visited?

Was it easy to get everywhere?

What difficulties did you face in a city you didn't know?

How did you find the way out from those situations?

A: Excuse me.

B: Yes?

A: Sorry to bother you, but could you tell me the way to Castle Road, please?

B: I'm afraid I've no idea. I'm a stranger here myself.

A: Oh, I see. Well, thank you anyway.

B: Sorry, I couldn't help.

(He walks for a little while. He comes up to a taxi-driver.)

A: Excuse me.

B: Yes? What is it?

A: Could you tell me how to get to Castle Road, please?

B: Castle road? Let me think now... Yes... Go along this road as far as Tesco's - that's a large supermarket. Then turn left and Castle Road is the first turning on the right.

A: I see. Straight on as far as the supermarket... then left... then right.

B: Yes, that's right.

A: It's not too far from here, is it?

B: Oh no, only a few minutes.

A: Oh, good. Well, thank you very much.

B: Not at all.