1. Unit 9 Visitors and travelers

2. Objectives Focus Warming up 9.1 Did you have a good journey? 9.2 Hotels and accommodation 9.3 Organizing a conference Sum-up Assignment

3. Objectives Welcome visitors and book accommodations Understand something about organizing a conference

4. Focus Accommodations booking Conference organizing

5. Warming up Look at the pictures, what are they saying? Can you give me some phrases that can be used when meeting someone ？

6. 9.1 Did you have a good journey? The focus is on the general devices for trip making. Practice is concentrated on verbal devices employment.

7. Role-play. Students work in pairs as they decide who they'd speak to and what they might say. They can use the speech balloon expressions

8. Suggested answer 1 To airport information clerk: Can you tell me what time flight BZ 431 is going to depart? I've heard there's going to be a delay. 2 To ticket office clerk: A second class return to Manchester, please. I'll be coming back on Friday morning. 3 To travel agent or clerk in airline office: 1 ’ d like to reconfirm my reservation on flight TR 998 on Monday evening. The number on the ticket is …. 4 To travel agent: I ’ d like to fly to Bangkok on the 18th of next month. Can you tell me what the cheapest fare is, and when the best flights are? 5 To taxi driver: I've got to get to the airport as quickly as possible. How long do you think it ’ ll take? 6 To person at check-in desk: I know I'm quite early, but can I check in for the … flight now? 7 To anyone in a uniform: What platform does the train … leave from? 8 To clerk in information office: I've heard that the 17.55 has been cancelled. When is the next train from here … ?

9. 9.2 Hotels and accommodation This section deals with making hotel bookings and discussing accommodation facilities.

10. 9.2 B Listening The recording is a typical phone call to book a hotel. Play the recording more than once. They should first get the gist of the conversation and again note down their answers.

11. Answer to 9.2 A Vera Miiller phones because she has special requirements--one of the people she's booking for is unable to climb stairs, and she needs the information very urgently

12. 9.2 B Role play 1 Student A look at File 21; student B look at File 50. Students read through their information and role-play the phone call. 2 In this case, make it clear to the students that the other hotel should be phoned.

13. 9.5 Organizing a conference we go directly to business conferences. If they are asked to organize a conference, what should we prepare to do? What arrangements we will have to make for it? (Resolve problem, make arrangements, and draft correspondences)

14. Sum-up In this unit, we learnt: How to book hotel rooms. How to organize a conference.

15. Assignment Write a letter to book a room. Write to confirm the conference.