Unit 9: Staying in A HotelUnit 9: Staying in A Hotel

stay 待在（住宿 / 過夜）

Online Hotel ReviewsOnline Hotel Reviews以前 VS 現在準備旅行的差別In the past ， people used

guidebooks 導覽書 .

Today, most travelers use travel websites

-read reviews 評論 / 意見 （ by other travelers ） before making a reservation 訂

位-PROBLEM ： reviews are fake 假的

Online Hotel ReviewsOnline Hotel Reviews太好的網絡評論要注意他的可信度（ reliability ）：online rating 評價 / 評論“Outstanding 出色的 service…excellent

food…great prices…” think twice 考慮清楚 before booking a room （ written by the hotel’s owner! ）

太差的網絡評論也要小心他的可信度（ reliability ） ：some hotels post negative comments 負面評

論 about their competitors 競爭者 .

OOnline reviews are nline reviews are useuseless? less? （沒有用途）（沒有用途）

Some websites only allow 允許 comments from people who have used their services to

book – and pay for – a hotel room.

其他注意事項：personal opinion 個人的意見opinion about an experience at one point in

time 某個特定的時間 （ improved 進步 or declined

退步）use many different sources 資料來源 of information

VocabularyVocabulary（ 1 ） review

（ n ） 評論（複習

2 ）

an article 文章，someone gives their opinion

意見 about something

（ 2 ） reservation

（ n ）訂位have a hotel room or dining table kept 保留 for you

（ 3 ） fake （ adj ） 假的

not real 真的

（ 4 ） outstanding

（ adj ）出色的

impressive 令人感到欽佩的 , extremely 非常 good （ very ）

Vocabulary 2Vocabulary 2（ 5 ） rating （ n ）評價 rate （ v ）

a measurement 評量of how good something is

（ 6 ） negative （ adj ） 負面的（ positive ）

bad ， unpleasant 不喜歡， 討厭的

（ 7 ） furthermore

（ adv ） 此外

in addition to 除此以外

（ 8 ） decline （ v ） 品質下滑

to become worse 更糟糕 （ worst ）

（ 9 ） source （ n ） 資訊來源

a place, person, or thing that you get something from

Reading Reading 閱讀閱讀Hampton Inn 小旅

社Reservations Check-in date: 【 August

3,2009 】 Number of Nights : 【 3 】 Number of Rooms: 【 1 】 Number of Adults : 【 2 】 Number of Children: 【 0 】 SmokingSmoking: 【】 Yes 【】 No

（ 1 ） Select Room Type. 【】 Single 【】 Double（ 2 ） Enter Guest Name and

Email. First Name: 【 Catherine 】 Last Name: 【 Ferguson 】 Email Address:

catferguson@maildirect.com

Reading 2Reading 2（ 3 ） Enter Your Address EXACTLY 一模一樣 as it appears 出現在 on your credit card

statement 陳述 . Address: 153 Lincoln Street City: Springfield State/Province (US & Canada Only): Illinois Country: USA Zip/Postal Code 郵遞區號 (US & Canada Only):

62701

（ 4 ） Select Your Payment 付款 Option 選項 .【】 Enter Credit Card Information Online【】 Fax Credit Card Information

Listening Listening 聽力聽力Desk Clerk: May I have your ID, please? Thank you. One moment 等一下 , please, Ms. Ferguson. … You booked one double room, for 3 nights? 訂房 雙人房

Please fill out this form 填寫表格 and sign 簽名 here. …

Your room number is 705. That’s on the 7th floor. The elevators 電梯 are located 位於 on the left. Breakfast is on the 2nd floor, from 6:30 am to 10:00

am. Your bags 行李 （ baggage/ luggage ） will be

brought to your room shortly. Enjoy your stay.

Reading Reading 閱讀閱讀(1) Reservation 訂位(2) Front desk

-Was check-in staff 人員 / 員工 friendly?

(3) Guest room

-Was the guest room clean and comfortable?

-Overall 整體的 / 全方面的 experience

(4) Dining -menu selection 選擇 / food quality 品質(5) Facilities 設備 / 設施 -exercise facility/ business center 商務中心

Grammar Grammar 文法文法（ 1 ） We _____ to see you again soon. (A) hopes (B) hope (C) hoping to (D) hope to

（ 2 ） Mr. Barton _____ turn down the job offer from Google.

(A) decided to (B) deciding to (C) decide (D) decides

（ 3 ） Our teacher _____ to study abroad. (A) encourages (B) encourage (C) encourages us

(D)encourage us

（ 4 ） The management _____ workers to wear casual dress on Friday.

(A) allows (B) allowing (C) allowing workers (D) allow workers

（ 5 ） A police officer _____ to drop the gun. (A) ordered (B) ordered the man (C) order the man

(D)ordering

Grammar 2Grammar 2（ 6 ） My brother’s ambition _____ become a rocket

scientist. (A) is (B) are (C) is to (D) are to

（ 7 ） It is impolite _____ at a homeless person. (A) to stare (B) to staring (C) staring (D)

stares

（ 8 ） My roommate was _____ to see so many cockroaches in the kitchen.

(A) surprise (B) surprised (C) surprising (D) to surprise

（ 9 ） You’ll be lucky _____ a taxi at this time of night. (A) get (B) got (C) getting (D) to get

（ 10 ） The firefighters arrived _____ late to save the burning house.

(A) to (B) too (C) how (D) much