CHECK YOUR ENGLISH VOCABULARY FOR TOEIC RAWDON WYATT

CHECK YOUR ENGLISH VOCABULARY FORLEISURE, TRAVEL ANDTOURISMRawdon WyattA & C Black ț LondonSecond EditionFirst published 1995 by Peter Collin Publishing as Check Your English Vocabulary for Hotels, Tourism and Catering Management[r]

© Bloomsbury Publishing. For reference see Dictionary of Leisure, Travel and Tourism (0-7475-7222-4).Note: AmE = American English (the English used in North America)Abbreviations 1: International organisations (pages 1 + 2)Across4. Hostel 6. Cultural 8.Union 9. Labour 10.Camping[r]

If you arrive at a hotel and want to book a room, you will probably have to pay the 3.__________ (this is thehotel's full price). However, if you book in advance, you might get a 4.__________ (sometimes as much as 50or 60%). And if there are several of you, you might get a special 5.__________ (alth[r]

Le Poisson d'Or = relais (it could also be a brasserie) Silverthorne's = carvery Rosie Lee's = tea room Jimmy's = snackbar (also called a café or cafeteria. Cafés which serve traditional British foods like English breakfasts, sausages andmashed potato, etc, are known colloquially as greasy sp[r]

Exercise 1Look at the national currency codes in the left-hand column of the table below, andcomplete the other columns with the name of the currency and the name of the country orterritory it is used in. Choose your answers from the two boxes. The first one has been donefor you.Note that som[r]

company had taken it over.C.Prices for long-haul flights are usually a bit steep. However, competition between airlines has brought pricesdown recently, and if you shop around you can usually get a good deal, especially if you go to a bucketshop or search on the Internet. I managed to get a c[r]

by changes to pension rules from April 5th nextyear. Holders of Self Invested PersonalPensions (SIPPs) will be permitted to investfunds from their pensions in residentialproperty.Up to £15bn of pension cash is expected toflood into the market, including tax reliefworth as much as £5bn. This is certa[r]

Unit2. Banks0000– the basicsA. Choose the correct words.DGrimleys BankOpen an account today!Open an account with Grimleys Bank, and start benefiting from our great 1 rates /levels of interest and 2 small / low charges. With over 3,000 3 branches / outlets,you'll never be far from us, and unlike many[r]

(a) weasel waltz (b) turkey trot (c) cat calypso (d) rabbit rumbaWe might refer to a bad employer with a reputation for losing talented staff as:(a) a people churner (b) a people mixer (c) a people stirrer (d) a people beaterThe sudden moment that you realise you have made a terrible mistake[r]

allows them to sell alcohol for drinking on the premises (=in the pub). 3. He / She is the person who owns /manages the pub (and often holds the licence in number2). 4. It is an independent pub: it is not owned by abrewery (= a company that makes beer). 5. 18 (or 16 ifyou are eating a meal in[r]

Exercise 2: Instructions as above.521. God Save the Queen is:(a) The name of the UK's national anthem. (b) The motto of the UK.2. A green belt is:(a) An academic qualification awarded to people who complete a degree course when they are fifty or older. (b) An area of countryside surrounding a large[r]

31. (On the phone) "Is Alice there, please?""Yes, hold up / on, I'll just get her for you."32. (On the phone) "Is Alice there, please?""I'm afraid she isn't. Can I take a message / note?"33. "Did you enjoy the party last night?""Yes, it was fun / funny."34. "Why did you accept the job? The pa[r]

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which you can look at. Let me (8) turn the computer on, enter my code and access the computersystem, and I'll show you ours. OK, here we go. Oh no, another (9) advertisement that suddenly appearson the computer screen. How annoying. Let me just remove it. That's better.Now, I can never remember the[r]