Types of Accommodations: Hotels, Self-Catering, and More
Classification of Accommodation
Self-Catering and Serviced Accommodation
Accommodation is normally classified into:
- Self-Catering: Where meals are not provided.
- Serviced: Where meals are provided and which can be classified according to the quality of the services offered (on the part of the staff) and the facilities available (relating to the equipment offered by the building).
Types of Serviced Accommodation
- Hotels with World-Class Service: These hotels are used by famous and wealthy people. They offer
Academic and Professional Vocabulary: Essential Terms
Understanding Key Terms
This document highlights common terms used in academic and professional settings. Mastering these terms can improve your communication and comprehension in various situations.
Academic Life
- Due Date: Do you know when the due date is?
- Hint: Just give me a hint.
- Syllabus: Why don’t you check the syllabus? It might help.
- Extension: I will need an extension to deliver the assignment. I’m behind schedule; I need an extension.
- Run it by: Excuse me, teacher, I have an idea. Can I run it
Common English Vocabulary and Phrases: A Comprehensive List
**People’s Appearance**
Succeed: Outcome, effect. Success: Success. Subservience: Servility, submissiveness. Gash: Gash. Stark: Stark, austere. Feisty: Determined, wrestler. Hitch: Complicated. Notorious: Known, infamous. Role: Part (in a play, film). Resemblance: Similarity. Bangles: Bangle, bracelet. Trashy: Bratty, filthy, bad. Charts: Charts, chart, table, map. Pay Off: To cancel, settle. Achievement: Achievement, success. Uncanny: Weird, strange.
Cuff: Fist. Lanky: Ungainly. Tucker: Pleated,
Read MoreUnderstanding English Phonetics: Sounds, Stress, and Intonation
Phonetics: The Study of Speech Sounds
Phonetics is a branch of linguistics focused on the study of speech sounds. It examines how these sounds are produced, heard, and their various properties, without considering their meaning or order. This field is closely related to phonology, which studies how sounds function within a language, and semiotics, which examines symbols. In English, all vowel sounds and the consonants /v/, /z/, /m/, and /n/ are voiced. The vocal folds convert air from the lungs into
Read MoreAntonio’s First Trip to New York: A Memorable Journey
Introduction
1. Why hadn’t Antonio visited New York before?
Antonio’s family moved to Spain just before his 12th birthday, and he never got the opportunity to visit New York.
Chapter 1: First Impressions of the City
1. Why is it difficult to talk about a real New Yorker?
Since the city was founded, people from different races and cultures have come to New York seeking a better life. It has always had a mixture of cultures and religions.
2. How did passing through Times Square affect Antonio and why?
He
Read MoreLiterary Devices and Character Analysis in Literature
Key Literary Devices
- Allegory: A long story with an underlying moral meaning different from the surface meaning; an extended metaphor.
- Alliteration: Repetition of initial speech sounds of words.
- Allusion: An indirect or passing reference.
- Anecdote: A short, amusing, or interesting story about a real incident or person.
- Irony: The expression of one’s meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite.
- Metaphor: A comparison without the use of “like” or “as”.
- Oxymoron: A figure of speech that