Agree or disagree with the following statements. Give your reasons. Prove your opinion with the sentences from the text

Методические разработки учебного пособия для студентов заочного отделения по специальности «Гостиничное дело»

 

Выполнили:

 

Старший преподаватель Гурьянова Е.Н.

Доцент Чигрина Н.Л.

 

Москва

 

Unit 1The Hospitality Industry

Text 1

Pre-reading

Are you going to work in the hospitality industry? Why?

List seven key words you might expect to meet in the text.

 

Look-through-the text activity

* Find two definitions of hospitality in the text.

* Find words with the same root as the word hospitality.

Hospitality is the relationship between guest and host, or the act or practice of being hospitable. Specifically, this includes the reception and entertainment of guests, visitors, or strangers, resorts, membership clubs, conventions, attractions, special events, and other services for travellers and tourists.

In the West today hospitality is rarely a matter of protection and survival, and is more associated with etiquette and entertainment. However, it still involves showing respect for one's guests, catering to their needs, and treating them as equals. Cultures and subcultures vary in the extent to which one is expected to show hospitality to strangers, as opposed to personal friends or members of one's in-group.

The hospitality service industry includes hotels, casinos, and resorts, which offer comfort and guidance to strangers, whether it is commercial (for monetary gain) or non-commercial (not for profit). The terms hospital, hospice, and hostel also derive from "hospitality," and these institutions preserve more of the connotation of personal care.

Hospitality ethics is a discipline that studies this usage of hospitality.

After-reading

Do you agree with the definitions of the wordhospitality given in the text? Why? Why not?

Think of your own definition ofhospitality.

Task 1. Vocabulary

 

1.1 Find words or phrases in the text with the following meanings:

 

Welcome, conference, sight, patterns of behavior, taking care of, to differ, to demonstrate, to suggest, manual, to have origin, to keep, subject.

 

1.2 Match the following words with their definitions:

1.Hospitality	a) relating to money, especially all the money in a particular country
2.Reception	b) friendly behaviour towards visitors
3.Entertainment	c) money that you gain by selling things or doing business, after your costs have been paid
4.Resort	d) the formal rules for polite behaviour in society or in a particular group
5.Cater	e) a particular type of welcome for someone
6.Ethics	f) things such as films, performances etc that are intended to amuse or interest people
7.Monetary	g) a place where a lot of people go for holidays
8.Etiquette	h) to provide a particular group of people with the things they need or want
9.Profit	i) moral rules or principles of behaviour for deciding what is right and wrong

 

Task 2. Comprehension.

Agree or disagree with the following statements. Give your reasons. Prove your opinion with the sentences from the text.

Use for agreement: -That’s right…; -That’s true…; -I agree…

Use for disagreement: -That’s not quite right…; -It’s quite opposite…; -It says in the text…

1Hospitality means the act of being hospitable.

2Hospitality includes the welcome of guests only.

3In the West today hospitality is seldom a matter of protection and survival.

4Hospitality is associated with the formal rules for polite behaviour and it doesn’t involve entertainment.

5Catering to guests’ needs is one of the main features of hospitality.

6Beach hotels are not included in the hospitality service industry.

2.2 Complete the following passage with given words:relaxation, establishment, vacations, entertainment(2), tourism(2), commercial(2), resort(2), seaside, Russia, ski, towns, Egypt, England, Spain, Italy, the USA, Switzerland, cater to, convention.

A resort is a place used for --------- or recreation, attracting visitors for ----- and/or -----. Resorts are places, towns or sometimes ------ establishments operated by a single company.

Towns which are resorts — or where ----- or vacationing is a major part of the local activity — are sometimes called ----- towns. If they are by the sea they are called------ resorts. Inland resorts include ----- resorts, mountain ------ and spa -----. Towns such as Sochi in-----, Sharm el Sheikh in-----, Barizo in-----, Cortina d’Ampezzo in-----, Newport, Rhode Island, in-----, St. Moritz in-----and Blackpool in------ are well-known resorts.

In North American English, the term "resort" is now also used for a self-contained commercial ----- which attempts to ------ most of a vacationer's wants while remaining on the premises, such as food, drink, lodging , sports, ----- , and shopping.

The Walt Disney World Resort is a prominent example of a modern, self-contained ----- resort. Self-contained resorts are common in the United States but exist throughout the world. Closely related to resorts are----- and large meeting sites. Generally these occur in cities where special meeting halls, together with ample accommodations as well as varied dining and-----, are provided.

Text 2

Pre-reading

Name at least five organizations of the hospitality industry.