TripAdvisor Hotels

Explore real hotel reviews from TripAdvisor and bring authentic travel experiences into your classroom! Each slide presents a hotel along with reviews from real people, highlighting useful vocabulary with short explanations or synonyms. This material helps students expand their descriptive language and practice speaking about hotels in a structured way.

How to Use

1. Introduce the activity:
   Explain that students will explore hotel reviews and learn vocabulary to describe different types of accommodations.

2. Slide presentation:
   Show each slide with a hotel and its reviews. Highlight the useful vocabulary and review the provided explanations or synonyms with the class.

3. Vocabulary practice:
   Ask students to read the reviews and identify the highlighted vocabulary. Encourage them to understand the meaning through context and the short explanations provided.

4. Descriptive tasks:
   Once students are familiar with the vocabulary, assign tasks where they describe the hotels themselves using the learned words. For example:

   • “This hotel is luxurious and well-located, with friendly staff.”
   • “The rooms are spacious but the service could be improved.”

5. Pair or group discussion:
   Have students share their descriptions with a partner or small group, comparing hotels and discussing which they would choose to visit.

6. Class sharing:
   Invite volunteers to present their favorite hotel descriptions to the class, fostering speaking confidence and using the vocabulary in context.

This activity is perfect for B1-B2 learners to practice descriptive language, speaking, and travel-related vocabulary in an engaging and authentic context.