WARM-UPS

1. HOTELS: Students walk around the class and talk to other students about hotels. Change
partners often and share your findings.

2. CHAT: In pairs / groups, decide which of these topics or words from the article are most
interesting and which are most boring.

travel / survey / complaints / hotel staff / strangest things / impossible / weird /

cucumbers / chicken / room service / beach / discount

Have a chat about the topics you liked. Change topics and partners frequently.

3. COMPLAINTS: What are your big(gest) complaints? Complete this table and share what you
wrote with your partner(s). Change partners often.

About… What? Why?

hotels
English
your country
the Internet
your city
people

4. HOTEL STAFF: Students A strongly believe working in a hotel would be very interesting;
Students B strongly believe it would be very boring. Change partners again and talk about
your conversations.

5. HOTEL ROOM: Rank these with your partner. Put the most important things at the top.
Change partners often and share your rankings.

• a room with a view • quiet

• big • a safe

• free wi-fi • a mini-bar

• a good shower • free gifts

6. TRAVEL: Spend one minute writing down all of the different words you associate with the
word "travel". Share your words with your partner(s) and talk about them. Together, put the
words into different categories.