Horizons Language
Real-Life Listening · American English

Hotel Check-in

Imagine you are Josh arriving after a long flight. Your goal is to understand enough of the receptionist’s information to get to your room, use the hotel services, manage the deposit, and handle checkout without confusion.

Before You Listen — Useful Vocabulary

Review these words and expressions before listening. The examples below do not appear in the audio.

pull something up

To find and display information on a computer or other system.

Example: Could you pull up my booking so we can check the dates?

fairly

To a moderate or noticeable degree; quite.

Example: The neighbourhood is fairly quiet after nine in the evening.

security deposit

Money temporarily held to cover possible damage or extra costs.

Example: The apartment requires a security deposit before you receive the keys.

temporary hold

An amount reserved on a bank card without being a final charge.

Example: The petrol station placed a temporary hold on my card.

business day

A normal working day, usually Monday to Friday and excluding public holidays.

Example: The refund should appear within three business days.

late checkout

Permission to leave a hotel room later than the normal checkout time.

Example: We requested late checkout because our train left in the afternoon.

unlimited access

Permission to enter or use something as many times as needed.

Example: Members receive unlimited access to the fitness centre.

business center

A hotel area with facilities such as computers, printers, or work space.

Example: I used the business center to print my boarding pass.

ID

Your name

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Hotel check-in audio

Listen as if you were the guest yourself. Focus on the room change, hotel facilities, extra costs, access instructions, and what you need to do on checkout day.

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50-question bank · 22 shown per attempt

Your Dynamic Question Set

The engine prioritizes unseen questions and previous mistakes. Each attempt balances the room correction, hotel services and checkout/cost details, then restores the selected questions to the order in which Samantha explains them.

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Full transcript

Samantha is the receptionist. Josh is the guest.

1

If You Were Josh — Understanding Your Stay

The question order and answer options change every time the page loads.

2

Would This Be Correct for Your Stay?

The questions change order on each attempt. The answer order always remains True → False.

3

Your Hotel Notes

Complete the details you would want to remember after leaving the front desk.

4

Listening Recall — Explain What You Understood

Type or speak a short summary. This section checks whether you can reconstruct the situation in your own words.

Do not copy the transcript. Reconstruct Josh’s check-in as if you needed to remember the corrected room, the main hotel facilities and the financial/checkout arrangements for the stay.

Your task: In at least 50 words, summarize the room-booking correction, security hold, breakfast/Wi-Fi/gym/printing information, parking rules, and what Josh should do about late checkout and his luggage.
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Listening Recall
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Room & check-in
Hotel services
Checkout & costs
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