JOBS: WORKING IN A HOTEL (Intermediate) (EXERCISE I86E256)

Jack and his wife, Isabel, who is Spanish, both work at the Regent Hotel in the center of London. Jack is a receptionist and Isabel works in the hotel bar.

Jack says:

“Ten million people visit London every year. In our hotel we have fifty rooms, and we have visitors from all over the world, especially from America and Japan. Isabel speaks French and Spanish and I speak English, German, French, and Spanish.

Our guests like doing many things. On a typical day they have breakfast in the hotel restaurant, an English breakfast of eggs, bacon, tea, and toast. After breakfast they visit the Houses of Parliament and Buckingham Palace and go shopping in Harrods. They come back to the hotel at four o’clock and have tea and relax. Then in the evening they go to the theater.

We work long hours. I work from six o’clock in the morning till three in the afternoon, and Isabel works from six in the evening till one in the morning, but we love our work. We like meeting people of all nationalities.”

Isabel says:

“Jack and I live   in a room in the hotel. Jack starts work at six in the morning but I don’t start until six in the evening. He gets up at five o’clock. I stay in bed. I do not get up until ten o’clock. We always meet at three o’clock in the afternoon when Jack finishes work. We go back to our room and we have lunch before I go to work at quarter to six.”

EXERCISE: Are the following sentences TRUE or FALSE?

(A)   A lot of visitors come to the hotel.

(B)   Both Jack and Isabel speak French and German.

(C)   Guests have breakfast in bed.

(D)  Guests visit Houses of Parliament in the morning.

(E)   Guests like shopping in Buckingham Palace.

(F)    Guests relax in the evenings.

(G)  Jack and Isabel don’t like their work.

ANSWERS:

EXERCISE: Are the following sentences TRUE or FALSE?

(A)   A lot of visitors come to the hotel.  TRUE

(B)   Both Jack and Isabel speak French and German.  FALSE

(C)   Guests have breakfast in bed.  FALSE

(D)  Guests visit Houses of Parliament in the morning.   TRUE

(E)   Guests like shopping in Buckingham Palace. FALSE

(F)    Guests relax in the evenings. FALSE

(G)  Jack and Isabel don’t like their work.   FALSE

TO PRINT