Book your accomodation

Lesson Overview: Booking Your Accommodation

This lesson covers useful Italian vocabulary and expressions related to booking accommodation, focusing on comparative adjectives such as maggiore (greater), minore (lesser), migliore (better), and peggiore (worse). You will practice how to communicate when reserving a room or an apartment in hotels, bed and breakfasts, or holiday rentals.

Key Vocabulary and Expressions

• prenotare – to book/reserve
• camera singola – single room
• camera doppia – double room
• prezzo minore – lower price
• prezzo maggiore – higher price
• servizio migliore – better service
• incluso – included
• qualità – quality

Practical Dialogues

The lesson includes dialogues simulating real-life situations such as booking a single room over the phone, mailing an email to reserve a double room, and choosing accommodation online while comparing options.

Example phrase: La camera singola ha un prezzo minore rispetto a quella doppia, costa 50 euro a notte. (The single room has a lower price than the double room, it costs 50 euros per night.)

Usage of Comparative Adjectives

The adjectives maggiore, minore, migliore, peggiore are used to compare prices and quality of services. For example, Il servizio dell'hotel è di qualità migliore rispetto ad altri hotel della zona (The hotel service is of better quality compared to other hotels in the area).

Verb Conjugations

Important verbs related to booking such as fare (to make), confermare (to confirm), avere (to have), and essere (to be) are featured, with multiple-choice exercises provided for practice. For instance, Vorrei fare una prenotazione means "I would like to make a reservation."

Short Story for Contextual Learning

A short story illustrates booking accommodations for work and family, using present tense and subjunctive forms. It demonstrates how actions are described naturally in conversation and writing, offering both full sentences and verbs conjugated in context.

Differences and Useful Phrases Between English and Italian

Italian uses comparative adjectives often after the noun with prepositions like rispetto a (compared to), showing relationships explicitly, whereas English often places comparatives directly before nouns. For example, "prezzo minore rispetto a quella doppia" is "lower price than the double one."

Useful phrases specific to booking accommodation in Italian include:

• Vorrei prenotare – I would like to book
• Qual è il prezzo? – What is the price?
• Il servizio è incluso? – Is the service included?
• Confermo la prenotazione – I confirm the booking

Note that some English auxiliary verbs are integrated directly into the Italian verb forms without separate words (e.g., "I make a reservation" translates to faccio una prenotazione rather than two separate verbs). This structure should be familiarized for better fluency.