| LESSON OVERVIEW
The main objectives of this lesson are to:
- engage in talking about hotels;
- practise hotel-related vocabulary;
- watch a short video on a hotel experience.
With this lesson, students talk about hotel preferences and recommendations, explore vocabulary for hotel situations, and say what is important for them in a hotel. They watch and discuss a video about a hotel stay, share their personal experiences, and read a dialogue between a receptionist and a hotel guest. Students also work in pairs role-playing hotel scenarios.
A2 / Pre‐Intermediate60 minStandard LessonPremium Plan
WARM-UP AND VOCABULARY
This lesson starts with a warm-up where students engage in talking about hotels. They look at photos of different hotels and complete sentences about hotel preferences and recommendations. Following that, students complete sentences with words related to hotel amenities and facilities (e.g. single bed, free Wi-Fi, pool). Afterwards, they look at pairs of hotel amenities and facilities (e.g. gym OR pool). Students choose which ones are most important to them and explain why. Next, they watch a short video about a hotel experience and tick the things they see in it (e.g. balcony, lift, free Wi-Fi). Afterwards, students watch the video again and discuss questions about the hotel services and amenities. They then choose one of the options to complete sentences about personal hotel experiences and preferences (e.g. The best/worst hotel I have stayed at was in…).
TALKING ABOUT HOTELS AND ROLE-PLAY
In this part of the lesson, students practise more vocabulary for talking about hotels. They complete gaps in sentences with words related to hotel check-in and guest assistance (e.g. card, help, lift). Students then decide who says each sentence: a receptionist or a hotel guest. Afterwards, they put the sentences in the correct order to create a dialogue between a receptionist and a hotel guest. Following that, students read the dialogue out loud with a partner and change some of the details. Next, they complete the missing lines in short dialogues about hotel check-in and guest inquiries using the target vocabulary from the lesson. After that, students receive cards with questions, each containing one mistake. They correct the mistakes and ask their partner the questions. Students also answer their partner’s questions with their own ideas.
HOMEWORK/REVISION
This lesson plan also includes an additional task that you can use as homework or revision. In the task, students unscramble words in a dialogue between a receptionist and a guest. The task is available in the teacher’s version of the worksheet. You can print it and hand it out to your students. It’s also included in the e-lesson plan.
WORKSHEETS
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There is a mistake on this worksheet and on the slides. In exercise 7 the phrase ‘Thank you. And where’s the lift?’ (which is given as a example) is missing from the list of sentences and the dialogue doesn’t work without it. It needs to be in the list with the others so students can include it in the dialogue. On the slide it doesn’t appear at all in the reordered dialogue. Thanks.
Hi! Actually, there is no mistake there. We’ve checked both the worksheet and the slides, and everything seems to be in place. In Exercise 8 (PDF), students are clearly instructed to use the example sentence, and it’s also shown in the answer key.
As for the e-lesson format, the ordering task on slides 26-27 features all the necessary lines, the example included. If you compare these with slides 24-25, you’ll notice the difference in how the task is introduced and structured. Hope that helps!
Great lesson! Really helped me, thank! However, there’s something that got me confused. In slide 10, the instructions say: “Choose which is more important to you in each pair and say why.”; but in slide 11, the instructions change to: “Choose which is more important for you in each pair and explain why.”. I’m now kind of confused about the use of for or to in this context.
Thank you for your feedback—we’re glad you found the lesson useful! There was a slight inconsistency in the instructions—we’ve fixed it now, so they’re the same. Thanks for letting us know!