The tourism industry including hotels, travel services, airlines and airports and related services have a lot of specific terminology. This essential vocabulary can be taught with the help of listening activities, pictures of items, equipment, locations, commonly encountered conversational interactions and other activities. Role plays and speaking activities can help prepare students for internships or jobs in the tourism and hospitality fields.
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8 Hotel Listening, Speaking and Vocabulary Exercises and Worksheets
1 Hotel reception listening activity and conversation worksheet (with audio and answers) worksheet
This is an English language exercise introducing and exploring hotel language and vocabulary. Students try to complete the conversation. Then they can listen to the conversation and check their answers.
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2 “At the hotel” listening and vocabulary worksheet (with audio and answers)
This is an English language exercise introducing and exploring hotel language and vocabulary. First, students listen to the audio and match the items to the pictures. Then, students try to match the vocabulary with the appropriate pictures. Or!! It can be done the other way around.
3 Writing a conversation: booking a hotel picture dialogue and listening activity
This is an ESL speaking and writing lesson for practicing basic language for booking a room in a hotel. Students look at the pictures and write an appropriate conversation for booking a room. The they can listen to the audio and compare their answers.
4 Essential hotel vocabulary worksheet (updated 18/2/2019)
This is an English language exercise introducing and exploring the language and vocabulary of hotels. Students try to match the vocabulary with the appropriate pictures.
The picture sheet can be used in various ways. The teacher can randomly dictate the words from the second page, using sentences to give context and the students label the pictures with the appropriate vocabulary. Or the vocabulary can be scrambled on the board or on a sheet (see PDF page 3).
5 Asking for information: travel dialogues worksheet (with answers)
This is an English speaking skills and fluency exercise . Students try to complete the short dialogues using the speech bubbles.
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6 Asking for information: hotel dialogues worksheet
This is an English language exercise introducing and exploring short hotel conversational exchanges, usually involving guests asking for information. Students try to complete the dialogues with their own ideas
7 Telephone conversation: reservation & confirmation
This is an ESL speaking and writing lesson for practicing basic language for hotel telephone reservations. The students fill in the boxes with the appropriate conversational language
8 “At the hotel” vocabulary worksheet
This is an English language exercise introducing and exploring the language and vocabulary of staying in hotels. Students try to match the vocabulary with the appropriate pictures. This can be followed up by a speaking activity in which students have to explain what is happening in each of the pictures.
Good morning thank you for those very useful hotel exercises.
No problem. Happy to hear they are useful.
Regards, Peter
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Oh my God, these exercises are so creative and fun!
thanks loads for those!!!
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