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TOEIC Beginner Reviewer – Basics (Vocabulary and Grammar) (TOEIC 初級復習用 基礎練習（語彙と文法)

Main Topic 6: Business Trips

Lesson 39: Reservations/Accommodations (20-25 minutes)

Today, you will:

1. Learn useful vocabulary related to RESERVATIONS/ACCOMMODATIONS.
2. Review misplaced adverbial time words and phrases.

I. VOCABULARY

Exercise 1: What’s the meaning? (5-6 minutes)

A. Choose the meaning of the underlined words from the choices that follow.

1. Good morning, sir. How can we be of service?

a. help
b. treat
c. business
d. enjoyment
2. My sister asked me to book two plane tickets for our flight tomorrow.
a. pay
b. find
c. search
d. reserve
3. Our hotel can provide you with the best services you can think of.
a. show
b. teach
c. supply
d. entertain
4. We got lost on our way home, so we decided to spend the night in a nearby hotel.
a. inn
b. room
c. office
d. venue
5. Our company’s clients wanted to inquire about the product we are advertising.
a. ask
b. keep
c. observe
d. answer

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B. Sentence-Making Practice (3-4 minutes)

Practice using the words you’ve learned in your own sentences.

1. Service – Please inform us how we can service you better.

2. Book (v) – I called the hotel to book a room for tomorrow’s meeting.
3. Provide – Please provide me with a manual for the new TV.
4. Hotel – My brother enjoyed his stay at the hotel yesterday.
5. Inquire – My mother asked me to inquire about her friend’s party tomorrow.

Exercise 2: What’s the word? (4-5 minutes)

Read the following dialog with your tutor and try to use context clues to fill in the blanks with
the most appropriate word. You can find the missing word from the pool of words at the
bottom.

John is on the phone with a hotel manager.

Hotel manager: Good evening, this is The Prince Hotel. How can we help you?
John: Good evening. I would like to ask about how to __d___ a hotel room.
Hotel manager: That’s very easy sir. Is this for a party? A business meeting?
John: I need a room for a business seminar. If you don’t mind, I would like to know the possible
__a__ in making a reservation.
Hotel manager: Well sir, our room reservations are very affordable. We have hotel rooms
whose _b___ add up to at least eighty US dollars. When will you need the room sir?
John: I’m glad to hear that. Well, the seminar will start next Saturday.
Hotel manager: Thank you very much, sir. We will contact you for further details so we may
prepare everything that you would need.
John: That would be great. Thank you very much!

Choices:

a. expenses b. budget c. order d. reserve

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II. GRAMMAR REVIEW:

Topic: Misplaced Adverbial Time Words and Phrases (5-6 minutes)

General Description: Adverbs of time answer the question “When?” Misplaced adverbial time
words and phrases may refer to either of the following:

 Adverbial time words and phrases that are improperly separated from the word or
words they modify.

 Adverbial time words and phrases that are placed close to a word or words they do not
modify.

Remember: ALWAYS place adverbial time words or phrases as close as possible to the word or
words they modify.

Examples:

 INCORRECT: The train tomorrow will leave.

CORRECT: The train will leave tomorrow.

 INCORRECT: Before Jane takes a shower she goes to work.

CORRECT: Jane takes a shower before she goes to work.

 INCORRECT: He was talking when I arrived on the phone.

CORRECT: He was talking on the phone when I arrived.

 INCORRECT: She cooked while I studied dinner.

CORRECT: She cooked dinner while I studied

Comprehension Check:

Choose the correct placement of the adverbial time phrase two years ago:

a. I had wanted to be two years ago an engineer.

b. I had wanted two years ago to be an engineer.
c. I had wanted to be an engineer two years ago.

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Exercise 1: Incomplete Sentences (3-4 minutes)

Choose the phrase that would best complete the following sentences.

1. He waited _______________was finished.

a. meeting until
b. until the meeting
c. until meeting then
d. the meeting until it

2. The business meeting is scheduled to take place _______________.

a. afternoon in the tomorrow
b. tomorrow in the afternoon
c. in the tomorrow afternoon
d. in tomorrow of the afternoon

3. ____________, we will start the meeting.

a. They arrive
b. They arrive when
c. When they arrive
d. When the meeting arrives

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