Last week I asked you which words you would underline in the questions below. Now let's see if we can get the correct answers, using only the underlined keywords.
Here are the questions again, with keywords underlined:
1. How might a guest feel when staying in a luxury hotel?
A impressed with the facilities
B depressed by the experience
C concerned at the high costs
2. According to recent research, luxury hotels overlook the need to
A provide for the demands of important guests
B create a comfortable environment
C offer an individual and personal welcome
3. What is the impact of the outside environment on a hotel guest?
A It has a considerable effect.
B It has a very limited effect.
C It has no effect whatsoever.
Now here's the transcript of the recording. Choose the correct answers and explain them by referring to keywords in the questions and transcript.
You wake up in the middle of the night in a strange hotel miles away from home, disoriented most probably from jet lag, when even the most expensive surroundings can seem empty and dispiriting. The research suggests that even the most opulent, luxurious hotels seem to have underestimated the most basic needs of their customers - be they travelling for work or pleasure: the need to feel at home in surroundings which are both familiar and inviting. And the research concluded that what was outside the hotel building simply didn’t matter.
1. B depressed by the experience = disoriented most probably from jet lag, when even the most expensive surroundings can seem empty and dispiriting
2. B create a comfortable environment = the need to feel at home in surroundings which are both familiar and inviting
3. C It has no effect whatsoever = what was outside the hotel building simply didn’t matter
Posted by: Luong Van | January 10, 2017 at 16:26
1 B : guest feel / luxury hotel / depressed = expensive surroundings / empty and dispriting
2 B : luxury hotel overlook / comportable environment = luxurious hotels / underestimate / feel at home / familiar and inviting
3 C : impact / outside environment / no effect = outside the hotel building / didn't matter
Posted by: Jeffrey | January 10, 2017 at 16:34
1. B: Seem empty and dispiriting = depressed.
2. C: Familiar and inviting = personal welcome.
3. C: Didn’t matter = no effect.
Posted by: Rio Indonesia | January 11, 2017 at 01:10
1.B:disoriented,surroundings can seem empty and dispiriting.
2.C: luxurious hotels underestimate customers's needs.the need to feel at home in surroundings which are both familiar and inviting
3.outside the hotel building simply didn’t matter
Posted by: BO ZHANG | January 11, 2017 at 02:25
1. C- empty and dispiriting;
2. A- underestimated the most basic needs of their customers - be they travelling for work or pleasure: the need to feel at home in surroundings which are both familiar and inviting;
3. C- did not matter
Posted by: binh | January 11, 2017 at 02:58
1. B, guest feel/ luxury hotel : disoriented/ expensive surroundings
2. C, luxury hotel overlook : luxurious hotels underestimated/ basic needs of their customers
3. C, impact/ outside environment : outside the hotel buildings didn't matter
Posted by: Mohammad Vicky | January 11, 2017 at 04:25
1.c
2.c
3.c
Posted by: binh | January 11, 2017 at 06:20
1.b
2.c
3.c
Posted by: binh | January 11, 2017 at 06:21
1.b ( despiriting )
2.c( familiar and inviting )
3.c( simply didn't matter )
Posted by: Lala | January 11, 2017 at 07:11
1.B
2.B
3.C
Posted by: yang | January 11, 2017 at 07:14
1.B
2.B
3.C
Posted by: Justin | January 11, 2017 at 07:44
1. guest feel, luxury hotel -> hotel, expensive surroundings seem
B depressed -> dispiriting
2. luxury hotels overlook -> luxurious hotels underestimated
B comfortable environment -> feel at home in surroundings
3. impact, outside environment -> outside the hotel building
C no effect -> didn't matter
Posted by: Dina Scherbakova | January 11, 2017 at 07:56
B
B
C
Posted by: Charlie | January 11, 2017 at 10:29
B = depressed = seem empty and dispiriting
C = personal welcome = to feel at home
C = no effect = didn't matter
Posted by: Gie | January 11, 2017 at 13:44
CORRECT ANSWERS FROM SIMON:
1. B
depressed = can seem empty and dispiriting
2. B
overlook = have underestimated
comfortable environment = feel at home in surroundings which are both familiar and inviting
3. C
no effect = simply didn’t matter
Posted by: Simon | January 11, 2017 at 15:27
1.B
2.B
3.C
Posted by: sujit kumar biswas | January 30, 2017 at 03:48
b,b,c
Posted by: ZUBAYER KABIR | February 03, 2017 at 10:49
1.B
2.B
3.C
Posted by: sujit kumar biswas | February 24, 2017 at 02:04
Dear Simon,
does "feeling home" refer to "individual welcome"? I am confused.
I just want to thasnk you. All of my friends advise me to study with your web-site. And I see now how right they are.
KR,
Gökcen
Posted by: gokcen | April 01, 2017 at 17:31
Hi Gokcen,
I'm glad you like my site!
No, and "individual welcome" would mean that a hotel employee comes to greet you when you arrive. This might make you feel "at home", but it doesn't automatically mean that. It just means that somebody greets you.
Posted by: Simon | April 02, 2017 at 10:18
feel luxury hotel?= most expensive
B depressed = seems empty and dispiriting
2. hotels overlook need= to have underestimated
B comfortable environment=feel at home familiar and inviting
3. impact outside hotel=outside the hotel building
C no effect= didn’t \matter.
Posted by: NIKI | May 13, 2017 at 23:58
B B C
Posted by: Md Kamran | February 24, 2018 at 13:00