venerdì 3 novembre 2023

Corso Inglese per il Turismo. Hotel and room facilities - exercise

ITALIANO
INGLESE

Servizi dell'hotel

Hotel facilities

Animali ammessi

Ascensore

Asciugamani in piscina

Attività organizzate

Bar a bordo piscina

Bar dell'hotel

Bungalow

Camere antiallergiche

Casinò

Cassaforte

Centro benessere / Spa

Centro congressi

Discoteca

Express check-in / out

Facchino bagagli

Lavatrice

Minimarket

Ombrelloni

Palestra

Parcheggio

Parrucchiera

PC con internet

Piscina coperta

Piscina esterna

Reception 24 ore su 24

Ristorante

Sala riunioni

Sdraio

Servizio di concierge

Servizio di lavanderia

Servizio in camera

Servizio in camera 24 ore

Servizio navetta

Stanze per non fumatori

Studio medico in hotel

Terrazza

Wi-Fi gratis nella hall

Wi-Fi nella hall






ITALIANO
INGLESE

Servizi della camera

Room facilities

Aria condizionata

Asciugacapelli

Asse e ferro da stiro

Bagno con doccia

Bagno con vasca

Bollitore

Cassaforte in camera

Cucina

Frigorifero

Internet

Lenzuola ipoallergeniche

Microonde

Riscaldamento

Scrivania

Specchio da trucco

Telefono

Terrazzo / Balcone

TV

TV satellitare

TV via cavo

Ventilatore

Wi-Fi gratis in camera

Wi-Fi in camera

martedì 6 giugno 2023

Meetings meetings meetings!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxw77hO0Gmc (advanced phrases for meetings)






https://www.engvid.com/business-meeting-conference-small-talk/

https://www.engvid.com/professional-english-vocabulary-meetings/

https://www.englishclub.com/business-english/meetings.htm


http://www.learn-english-today.com/business-english/meetings-vocabulary.html


http://www.blairenglish.com/exercises/meetings/meetingselectionpage.html


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ieYuoQ9sMvA


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzSMvNjit5I




Language Focus: Opening a meeting

 Right, let’s begin (let’s start)

Thank you (all) for coming…

We’ve received apologies from…

Any comments on our previous meeting?


Language Focus: Stating objectives and introducing agenda

We are here today to hear about plans for…

Our objective today is to discuss…

What we want to do today is…

The main purpose of this meeting is to…

On the agenda, you’ll see that there are three items to discuss

You’ve all seen the agenda…

Example of an agenda 

  1. Apologies for absence
  2. Minutes of previous meeting
  3. Chair’s opening address
  4. Personnel changes
  5. Review of Marketing performance
  6. New products
  7. Marketing plans
  8. Any other business
  9. Date of next meeting

 

 Language Focus: Introducing speakers

         I’d like to ask Mary to tell us about…

Can we hear from Mr. Rossi on this?

I know that John has prepared a statement on his Department’s views…

Perhaps Mrs. Conti could tell us about…


Language Focus: Asking for participants comments

         What do you think?

How do you feel about this?

What are your views on that?

Any comments on this?

 

Language focus: Agreeing and disagreeing

         Total disagreement

I totally disagree.

I couldn’t agree less.

You must be joking!

Wait to be convinced

I can see what you’re getting at.

There are two sides to the argument.

On the one hand…on the other…

I’m not sure/convinced about…

I just think we need more time.

Limited agreement

I agree, but

I’m not against, it, but…

Yes, I’m with you.


Language focus: Interrupting

         Excuse me, may I interrupt?

If I may interrupt, could you explain…

Sorry to interrupt, but…

Do you think so? My impression is that…

What? That’s impossible.  We/ I think…

Just a moment….

Can I say something here?

 

Handling interruptions

 Yes, go ahead.

Sorry, please let me finish…

If I may finish this point…

Can I come to that later?

That’s not really relevant at this stage…

Can we leave that to another discussion?

I’m afraid I can’t agree with you on that.  As I was saying…

That’s out of the question.

28. Ending the meeting : language focus

     ·        Summarising

I think we should end there.  Just to summarise…

We’ve covered everything, so I’d like to go over the decisions we’ve taken..

So, to conclude…we’ve agreed…

·        Confirming action

We’ll contact…

John will…

We’ve got to…

We need to look at…

·        Referring to next contact

We’ll meet again next month…

We look forward to hearing from you…

It’s been a pleasure to see you today and I look forward to our next meeting…