Reading: Business hotels

Ss read about facilities in The Tower Hotel.

Lesson 3 Language focus 2: there is/ there are

Ss complete sentences using ther is/ there are and carry out a role play about a new job abroad.

Skills: Making bookings and checking arrangments

Ss listen and answer questions about booking a hotel room before role playing a similar situation.

Lesson 4 Case study: Pacific Hotel

A hotel manager and assistant manager allocate rooms to twelve guests at a small hotel. Writing

Ss write a fax to one of the guests confirming arrangements.

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Context: Unit 5 Title: Food and entertainment

Food can communicate complex messages about status, nationally and identity. The fashion for eating out in restaurant was adopted by the upper classes during the French revolution. Most English words relating to eating out are adopted from the French (hotel, café, menu, chef, etc.) including restaurant, which was originally from the French verb meaning ‘to store’. Later, the migrations of the twentieth century proved fertile ground for mingling cuisines and a knowledge of the vast variety on offer is viewed as a mark of modern cosmopolitan taste.

PROCEDURES

Lesson 1 Starting up

Ss talk about the kind of food they like and match dishes and countries. Vocabulary: Eating out

Ss look at food groups and different parts of a menu. Reading: Tipping

This reading section can be completed in two parts. Ss match jobs with places where people work. Then Ss talk about what services they tip before completing a table about which countries tip most often (Exercises A-C).

Lesson 2 Reading: Tipping

Ss read an article about factors that encourage people to tip and answer comprehension questions (Exercises D-E). Language focus 1: some/any

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Ss correct mistakes using some and any and underline the correct words in a dialogue. Listening: Ordering a meal

Ss listen to what a man and a woman order in a restaurant.

Lesson 3 Language focus 2: Countable and uncountable nouns

Ss identify countable nouns and complete exercises using a lot of, many or much. Skills: Entertaining

Ss look at language for entertaining visitors in a restaurant and listen and respond to a waiter’s questions.

Lesson 4 Case study: Which restaurant?

Three colleagues decide which restaurants to choose to entertain three important customers. Writing

Ss write an e-mail inviting a customer to dinner and giving details about the restaurant.

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Context: Unit 6 Title: Sales

Things have come a long way since the days when peddlers went from door to door selling wares from a pack. Now advertisements pop up as text messages. Goods can be ordered by mall order. We can compare prices, get quotes, check if an item is in stock and place an order without moving away from our computer screen. In some ways the methods o buying and selling have undergone a revolution and in others little has changed since the early 1900s when keywords in sales were service and relationships. A modern sales force uses a mixture of tried and tested techniques and new technology to increase sales. The foundation of modern sales techniques was developed in the 1950s and includes gaining the client’s interest, building desire by showing product features or giving samples, increasing conviction by comparing the product with competitors or using statistics to highlight benefits and, finally, closing the deal.

PROCEDURES

Lesson 1 Starting up

Ss listen to three people talk about where and when they buy products. Vocabulary 1: Buying and selling

Ss complete a sales leaflet for a computer company and listen to a conversation between a buyer and seller.

Lesson 2 Reading: Thirsty for success?

Ss read a job advertisement for a sales representative in a soft drinks company. Language focus 1: Past simple

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