Checking In and Out
Aims
Goal: arrive at and leave a hotel smoothly — check in, fix small problems, and check out and pay.
The lesson, stage by stage
- Warm up5 min
Warm-up: Arriving and leaving
2 warm-up questions
- Reading10 min
Reading: A Smooth Checkout
Read a 134-word text about A Smooth Checkout
- Vocabulary8 min
Vocabulary: Check-In and Check-Out Words
7 items
- Practice7 min
Practice: Hotel Arrival and Departure
Gap-fill exercise, 5 items
- Practice7 min
Practice: Make Check-In Sentences
Word-ordering exercise, 5 items
- Dialogue10 min
Dialogue: Checking Out
Role-play: You're checking out of your hotel (7 lines)
- Discussion10 min
Discussion: Your mission: the missing reservation
3 discussion questions
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Target vocabulary
In a Tuton account these words become your student's vocabulary deck, so they come back in practice between lessons.
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