Mastering Essential English Grammar and Vocabulary

Posted on Nov 20, 2025 in Other vocational courses

Hotel Facilities and Guest Services Vocabulary

  • Air conditioning and/or heating
  • Babysitting
  • Bar, pub, or lounge
  • Beauty salon or barber
  • Business center
  • Cable or satellite TV
  • Coffee/Tea making facilities
  • Conference facilities
  • Direct dial telephone
  • Disco
  • Doctor (on call)
  • Dry cleaning
  • En-suite bathroom
  • Facilities for disabled (Disabled facilities)
  • Fitness center
  • Foreign exchange
  • Golf course
  • Hairdryer
  • High-speed Internet access or Wi-Fi
  • Indoor or outdoor swimming pool
  • In-room movies
  • Iron and ironing board
  • Jacuzzi
  • Laundry service
  • Massage
  • Minibar or fridge
  • Non-smoking rooms
  • Restaurant
  • Safe (Safety deposit box)
  • Shopping
  • Spa
  • Squash court
  • Steam bath or sauna
  • Tennis court
  • Toiletries
  • 24-hour room service

Standard Order of Adjectives

Adjectives typically follow this order when preceding a noun:

  1. Size
  2. Other Qualities (Opinion/Value)
  3. Age / Temperature
  4. Shape
  5. Colour
  6. Origin
  7. Material
  8. Type / Purpose

Example: A large Renaissance stone cathedral.

Understanding Prepositions

Prepositions of Place

Using “At”

We use at to show a point or a specific place or position.

  • You check in at the airport.

Using “On”

We use on to show position on a horizontal or vertical surface.

  • The computer is on the desk.

We also use on to show position on streets, roads, islands, single mountains, etc.

  • We live on Gran Canaria.

We also use on in the expressions on the/your right and on the/your left.

Using “In”

We use in to show that something is enclosed or surrounded, i.e., to show position in an area or volume.

  • The money is in the safe.

The preposition in is also used to show position within land areas (towns, cities, villages, provinces, states, countries, groups of islands, mountain ranges, and continents).

  • She is at university in Spain.

We also use in with seas and oceans.

  • The Canary Islands lie in the Atlantic Ocean.

Other Positional Prepositions

  • Opposite (‘en frente de’): The hotel is opposite the station, so you only have to cross the road. The teacher is usually opposite the students.
  • In front of (‘delante de’): They took a photo in front of the hotel.
  • Under / Below (‘debajo de’): The temperature in Toronto now is below zero.
  • Over / Above (‘sobre’): The light over/above the bed doesn’t work.
  • Behind (‘detrás de’): There are some small shops behind the hotel.
  • Next to / Beside / By (‘al lado de’): They have a room next to / beside / by the lift.
  • Between (‘entre’, when there are two people or objects): The child sat between her mother and father. Snacks are available at the bar between meals.
  • Among (‘en medio de’, ‘entre’, when there are more than two people or objects).

Prepositions of Movement

  • To: Used to show movement with the aim of a specific destination.
    • I went to Italy on holiday last year.
  • Toward: Used to show movement in the direction of a place, without necessarily arriving at the place.
    • I was walking toward the office when I met Paul.
  • Through: Used to show movement from one end of an enclosed space to the other.
    • The train went through the tunnel.
  • Across: Used to show movement from one side of a surface or line to another.
    • She walked across the road.
  • Along (= Down): Used to show movement over the length of something.
    • The tourists followed the guide along/down the street.
  • On / Off: We use on (or onto) to show movement above something and off to show the opposite.
    • They walked on the bridge.

Forming and Using Comparatives

A. Forming the Comparative

The comparative form of adjectives and adverbs follows these rules:

  • -er ending: Used for one-syllable words and for two-syllable words that end in -y.
    • early → earlier
    • tall → taller
    • big → bigger
    • soon → sooner
    • fast → faster
  • More + Adjective/Adverb: Used for two or more syllable words, and for adverbs that are formed by adding -ly to an adjective.
    • more comfortable
    • more ancient
    • more slowly

B. Comparative Sentence Structure

We normally use a phrase with than after a comparative adjective or adverb.

  • This hotel is nicer than the Piazza Hotel.

When comparing subjects using pronouns after than, we can use either a personal pronoun (object form) or a subject pronoun followed by a verb.

  • Peter is younger than him.
  • OR Peter is younger than he is.