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The Modal Hotel
The Modal Hotel features two outdoor pools in beautifully landscaped grounds. It also has a
spa and two restaurants. It is a 5-minute walk from the night market and fishing pier.
Your group has just taken over the management of the hotel. With your group members,
look at the following information and decide what the rules are going to be in your hotel, use
must, mustn't, have to, don't have to, can and can't.
Examples:
Guests must check out before 12 p.m.
Guests mustn't smoke in their room.
Guests have to leave their key when they go out.
Staff don't have to work weekends.
Staff can have sick leave.
Guests can't order breakfast after 10 a.m.
Guests Rules
Checking in and out
check out before 11 a.m. / 12 p.m.?
check in after 1 p.m. / 2 p.m.?
pay by cash / credit card?
if a guest checks out late?
if a guest wants to stay longer?
cancellation cost?
Rooms
leave key when guests go out?
smoking in the room?
Wi-Fi access? cost?
have visitors?
TV channels?
Meals
breakfast start / finish time?
breakfast included? not included?
book a table for lunch / dinner?
smoking in the restaurant?
Other rules

Staff Rules
Working hours
work weekends (how often?)
work evenings (how often?)
holiday leave (how often?)
if staff are sick?
Clothes
wear a uniform?
clothing for receptionists / bellboys?
clothing for kitchen staff?
Other rules
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The Modal Hotel
In this group work activity, students make rules for guests and staff in a hotel using modal
verbs of obligation and prohibition.

Before class, make one copy of the worksheet for each student.

Procedure

Ask the students what they like and dislike about staying in hotels. Go through likes and
dislikes for hotel rooms, hotel staff, checking in, etc.

Divide the class into groups of three and give each student a worksheet.

As a class, read the hotel introduction and instructions at the top of the worksheet.

Tell the class that they have taken over the management of the hotel and that they are going
to decide what rules to have in the hotel for both the guests and the staff.

Tell each group to work out the rules using the prompts in the first column of the table.

Students write the rules in the second column using modal verbs of obligation and
prohibition.

Students should also think of extra rules for both the guests and staff and write them in the
other rules box.

When all the groups have finished writing, put two groups together and tell them to compare
their sentences.

Students should make a note of which rules are the same and which are different.

If one group doesnt agree with a rule, they try to persuade the other group to change it.

Finally, the students compare their rules with the whole class and discuss any different or
unusual rules they have discovered.

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