Hotels and restaurants

Hotel facilites and rooms

Hotel facilites include:

                                      - room service

                                      - internet access

                                      - air conditioning

                                      - parking

                                      - single room

                                      - double room

                                      - twin room (2 beds)

                                      - satelite TV

                                      - minibar

                                      - personal safe

Rooms are often avaliable (can find) during the week.

Many hotels are fully booked (all the room are take) at weekend.

In the holiday you may need to book a room in advance.

In reception:

                      - arrive: check in

                      - end: check out

If you go to restaurant it´s a good idea book a table/make a reservation.

Three course meals: 

                        strated (e.g. soup)

                        main course (e.g. meat or fish)

                        dessert (e.g. fruit or ice cream)

You must pay the price and to leave a trip (extra money).

Are you ready to order?

(Have you decided what to eat?)

Meat, still or spankling?

Air travel

Vocabulary

When you arrive at an airport, the departure board will show you the flight numbers (e.g, BA333), departure time (e.g. 08.30) and destination.

My flight number is BA 5544.

You paid excess bagage.

Aircraft: plane.

Aboarding card: a piece of paper you must show to get on the plane.


In the pass-control someone checks you passport.

The aircraft take-off (leaves the ground).

When you broad the plane you can put your hand luggage in a small cupboard. It call overhead loker.

You then have to fasten your seat belt.

If there are no delays, the plane moves slowly to the runway, then it take off.

When the plane lands (arrives), there is always an announcement form member of the cabin crew.

You must get off the plane and walk througt the terminal building to baggage reclaim.

Go throught customs: pasar por encargo.

University education

Vocabulary

You can do/study...

Medicine to become a doctor.

Engineering to become a engineer.

Economics to become an economist.

Business studies to become a bussineman/woman and go into business.

Law to become a lawyer.

Architure to become an architect.

Psychology to become a pysichologist.

I study in a library and I wrok hard in a laboratory (lab).

Qualification: something that you get when you are succesful in a exam.

noum                verb                    adjetive

qualification    qualify                qualifield

succes            suceed      (un)succesful

To enter in University:

- First you have get grades in you final school exam to get place at many universities.

- You can then study for / do a degree.

- If you get complete course succesful you recive a certificant.

- In the UK, most degree course last (continue for) three years. 

Teacher at university: lecture.

The most senior lectures have tittle Professor.

Four years in university: undergraduates.

Degree complete: graduates.

Master: postgraduate degree.

To doctor it´s necessary do reseach. 

School education

School system

1. Nursery school.

2. Primary school.

3. Secundary school.

4. Take/do GCSE exam: college for vocational training (job) or stay at school two more years.

5. If pupils take level exam "A" they can go on to university (college for further education/training).

Public education/private education.

Subject: 

              - English

              - Marths

              - History

              - Sciences

Each subject is divided in lessons.

Holiday/Terms (periods of study).

Break up (end  class)/go back (return).

School rules in the past

- To call the male teacher "sir" and female teacher "miss".

- To wear a horrible uniform.

- Pupils sometimes had to stay behind and write an essay (e.g. poems).

If you broke the ruler (get into trouble) you were punished.

Nowdays, the atmosphere is more relaxed. Pupils can often dress the way they want -reasonably smart (well dressed)-and the techers are not as strict.

classroom lenguage

Vocabulary

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You use a rubber to rub something e.g. writting.
You use a ruler to meassure something.
You use a pencil sharpener to shapen pencils.

You use a highlighter pen to highlight a word.

Look up a word in a dictionary.

Borrow/lend someone´s dictionary or rubbber.

Plug in the CD player.

Trun up the volumen on the CD player.

Trun down the volumen on CD player.

Correct student.

I´d like you to work wiht a partner (another student).

Henrique, could you saw places (change seats) wiht Lorena?

Kin, could you share (use it together at the same time) you book with Petra?

Repeat this sentence after me.

What does tiny mean?

How do you pronounce last?

How do you spell monkey?

How do you use the word ruler?

Cloud you explain the different between lend and give?

verb                                noum

mean                              meaning

pronounce                      pronunciation

repeat                             repetition

spell                               spelling

explain                           explanation

use                                 use

War and violence

Vocabulary

The soldiers are carrying guns. 

They are members of an army. 

Soldiers defend their country and attack to protect the people.

They have to fight the enemy.

During a war there are a numbers of battles.

noum                 adjetive

violence             violent

When a bomb exploded in the heart of the city many building are destroyed.

Now searching in the area where the attack took place.

Soldier was shotting, someone is missing and others died.

Climate change

Vocabulary

The greenhouse gases (carbon dioxide, methane and ozone) create the greenhouse effect. 

The use of fossil fuels e.g. oil, natural gas and coal, has produced excesive amount of greenhouse gases and the result is global warning.

The effects of climate change: summers are getting hotter and winners are getting wetter, so drought (a long time without rain) and floods (much run) are becoming more common. 

Animals and plants life is suffering.

To stop global warning form destroying our environment, we need to act.

Six ways to reduce global warning

1. Don´t throw things away: recicle.

2. Save energy e.g. switch off lights.

3. Drive less and walk more.

4. Don´t waste water e.g. turn off the tap when you are brushing you teeth.

5. Change light bulbs for more energy-efficient ones.

6. Plant tree because trees reduce the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, and so reduce greenhouse gasses.