Mastering Essential English Grammar and Vocabulary
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
English Verb Tense Practice and Irregular Verb Forms
Section 1: Mixed Tenses Practice
- It isn’t raining
- was waiting / arrived
- I am getting
- do you do
- was the car doing
- Phoned / didn’t phone
- Were thinking / decided
- Is happening
- Doesn’t rain
- Rang / were having
- went / was studying / didn’t want / didn’t stay
- told / didn’t believe / thought / was joking
Section 2: Tense Forms
- didn’t go
- is wearing
- has grown
- haven’t decided
- is being
- wasn’t reading
- didn’t have
- is beginning
- Found
- wasn’t
- you have been
- I have been doing
- Did she go
- I have been playing
- Do you come
- Since I saw her
- for 20 years
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Read MoreMaritime English Reference: Phrasal Verbs, Nautical Terms, Navigation
Essential Maritime Phrasal Verbs
- Keep away: mantener distancia (to maintain distance)
- Keep on: continuar (to continue)
- Keep out: prevenir la entrada (to prevent entry)
- Keep out: permanecer fuera (to stay outside)
- Lay in: proveer con cantidad (to provide with a quantity)
- Lay down: diseñar (to design/establish)
- Lay off: despedir (to dismiss/lay off)
- Lay up: tener el barco fuera de uso (to lay up a ship)
- Lie off: alejarse (to stand off)
- Lie to: encarar (to head into the wind/sea)
- Lie up: amarrado (to be moored/
Essential English Phrases & Prepositions for Fluency
Phrases with ‘With’
- Impressed with
- To cope with (to try to find a solution)
- Delighted with
- Bored of/with
- Fed up with
- To fiddle with (your hair/your jewellery)
- To deal with (lidiar)
Phrases with ‘Of’
- All of a sudden
- A sigh of relief
- To get rid of
- Instead of
- A stroke of (inspiration/luck)
- A gust of wind
- A bonus of
- Afraid of
- To remind somebody of something
Phrases with ‘In’
- To blend in (pertenecer)
- To have something in common
- To be/to look in control
- To take part in (participar)
- In the middle
- In the centre
- In a side street
- In
English Sentence Transformation Practice
Enhancing English Sentence Construction Skills
This section provides a series of English sentence transformation exercises designed to improve your grammar, vocabulary, and overall sentence construction abilities. Each example presents an initial phrase or incomplete sentence, followed by its transformed version, highlighting key grammatical structures and idiomatic expressions.
Example 1: Repeated Actions
Original: I have .
Transformed: This is the third time I have been to this restaurant now.
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Read MoreShip Anatomy: Essential Maritime Terminology
Key Ship Components Defined
Understanding the various parts of a ship is crucial for anyone involved in maritime activities. Here are definitions of fundamental vessel components:
- Keel: The core of a ship, the keel supports the structure of the ship and is the first part to be built. Some ships also have a hydrodynamic keel designed to increase their efficiency.
- Hull: The most visible part of the ship, as it is the body of the watercraft.
- Bulkheads: Compartments which run across the ship from side to