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.
