Unit 9
Visitors and travelers
Objectives
Focus
Warming up
9.1 Did you have a good journey?
9.2 Hotels and accommodation
9.3 Organizing a conference
Sum-up
Assignment
Objectives
? Welcome visitors and book
accommodations
? Understand something about organizing
a conference
Focus
? Accommodations booking
? Conference organizing
Warming up
? Look at the pictures,what are they
saying?
? Can you give me some phrases that
can be used when meeting someone？
9.1 Did you have a good
journey?
? The focus is on the general devices for
trip making,
? Practice is concentrated on verbal
devices employment,
Role-play.
? Students work in pairs as they decide
who they'd speak to and what they
might say,They can use the speech
balloon expressions
Suggested answer
? 1 To airport information clerk,Can you tell me what time flight BZ 431 is going
to depart? I've heard there's going to be a delay.
? 2 To ticket office clerk,A second class return to Manchester,please,I'll be
coming back on Friday morning.
? 3 To travel agent or clerk in airline office,1’d like to reconfirm my reservation
on flight TR 998 on Monday evening,The number on the ticket is …,
? 4 To travel agent,I’d like to fly to Bangkok on the 18th of next month,Can you
tell me what the cheapest fare is,and when the best flights are?
? 5 To taxi driver,I've got to get to the airport as quickly as possible,How long
do you think it’ll take?
? 6 To person at check-in desk,I know I'm quite early,but can I check in for
the… flight now?
? 7 To anyone in a uniform,What platform does the train … leave from?
? 8 To clerk in information office,I've heard that the 17.55 has been cancelled,
When is the next train from here …?
9.2 Hotels and
accommodation
? This section deals with making hotel
bookings and discussing
accommodation facilities,
9.2 B Listening
? The recording is a typical phone call to
book a hotel,Play the recording more
than once,They should first get the gist
of the conversation and again note
down their answers,
Answer to 9.2 A
? Vera Miiller phones because she has
special requirements--one of the people
she's booking for is unable to climb
stairs,and she needs the information
very urgently
9.2 B Role play
? 1 Student A look at File 21; student B
look at File 50,Students read through
their information and role-play the
phone call.
? 2 In this case,make it clear to the
students that the other hotel should be
phoned.
9.5 Organizing a
conference
? we go directly to business conferences,
If they are asked to organize a
conference,what should we prepare to
do? What arrangements we will have to
make for it? (Resolve problem,make
arrangements,and draft
correspondences)
Sum-up
In this unit,we learnt:
? How to book hotel rooms.
? How to organize a conference.
Assignment
? Write a letter to book a room.
? Write to confirm the conference.
Visitors and travelers
Objectives
Focus
Warming up
9.1 Did you have a good journey?
9.2 Hotels and accommodation
9.3 Organizing a conference
Sum-up
Assignment
Objectives
? Welcome visitors and book
accommodations
? Understand something about organizing
a conference
Focus
? Accommodations booking
? Conference organizing
Warming up
? Look at the pictures,what are they
saying?
? Can you give me some phrases that
can be used when meeting someone？
9.1 Did you have a good
journey?
? The focus is on the general devices for
trip making,
? Practice is concentrated on verbal
devices employment,
Role-play.
? Students work in pairs as they decide
who they'd speak to and what they
might say,They can use the speech
balloon expressions
Suggested answer
? 1 To airport information clerk,Can you tell me what time flight BZ 431 is going
to depart? I've heard there's going to be a delay.
? 2 To ticket office clerk,A second class return to Manchester,please,I'll be
coming back on Friday morning.
? 3 To travel agent or clerk in airline office,1’d like to reconfirm my reservation
on flight TR 998 on Monday evening,The number on the ticket is …,
? 4 To travel agent,I’d like to fly to Bangkok on the 18th of next month,Can you
tell me what the cheapest fare is,and when the best flights are?
? 5 To taxi driver,I've got to get to the airport as quickly as possible,How long
do you think it’ll take?
? 6 To person at check-in desk,I know I'm quite early,but can I check in for
the… flight now?
? 7 To anyone in a uniform,What platform does the train … leave from?
? 8 To clerk in information office,I've heard that the 17.55 has been cancelled,
When is the next train from here …?
9.2 Hotels and
accommodation
? This section deals with making hotel
bookings and discussing
accommodation facilities,
9.2 B Listening
? The recording is a typical phone call to
book a hotel,Play the recording more
than once,They should first get the gist
of the conversation and again note
down their answers,
Answer to 9.2 A
? Vera Miiller phones because she has
special requirements--one of the people
she's booking for is unable to climb
stairs,and she needs the information
very urgently
9.2 B Role play
? 1 Student A look at File 21; student B
look at File 50,Students read through
their information and role-play the
phone call.
? 2 In this case,make it clear to the
students that the other hotel should be
phoned.
9.5 Organizing a
conference
? we go directly to business conferences,
If they are asked to organize a
conference,what should we prepare to
do? What arrangements we will have to
make for it? (Resolve problem,make
arrangements,and draft
correspondences)
Sum-up
In this unit,we learnt:
? How to book hotel rooms.
? How to organize a conference.
Assignment
? Write a letter to book a room.
? Write to confirm the conference.
