A Hotel That Melts

10/10/2020 5:16:00 PM
The hotel is carved out of ice. Image: saturdayeveningpost.com

Do you know?

  • There is a kind of hotel that is rebuilt every year.
  • The construction of this kind of hotel takes place during November and December, with the main material being ice. 
The hotel is carved out of ice. Image: saturdayeveningpost.com

Listen and choose the correct answer to each of the following questions.

  • Where is the hotel that can melt?
  • How many rooms does the hotel have?

Where is the hotel that can melt?

  • Sweden
  • Switzerland
  • Asia

How many rooms does the hotel have?

  • 6
  • 16
  • 60

Complete the text you are listening to by dragging the correct word to each blank.

A Hotel That Melts

You can stay in a hotel above the Arctic Circle. The hotel is in Sweden. You cannot go back to the same hotel next year. You can’t because the hotel will have . How can this be?

A new hotel is made every year. The hotel is out of ice. The hotel has about sixty rooms. All the rooms and are ice. Beds and chairs are carved out of ice. People are served drinks in glasses carved from ice.

How do people stay warm? Beds and chairs are covered with reindeer blankets. People are given jumpsuits. They are also given body bags. The body bags were for walking on the moon.

Read and answer the following questions.

A Hotel That Melts

Inside an ice hotel. Image: forbes.com

You can stay in a hotel above the Arctic Circle. The hotel is in Sweden. You cannot go back to the same hotel next year. You can’t because the hotel will have melted. How can this be?

A new hotel is made every year. The hotel is carved out of ice. The hotel has about sixty rooms. All the rooms and hallways are ice. Beds and chairs are carved out of ice. People are served drinks in glasses carved from ice.

How do people stay warm? Beds and chairs are covered with reindeer skin blankets. People are given jumpsuits. They are also given body bags. The body bags were developed for astronauts walking on the moon.

Source: Daily Warm-ups Grade 2

Stay is to go as _____
  • above is to below.
  • above is to served.
  • above is to carved.
  • above is to developed.

What is NOT true about the ice hotel?

  • It uses skin blankets to help people stay warm.
  • It melts every year.
  • It has some rooms which are not from ice.
  • It serves drinks in special glasses.

You can only get a room in the ice hotel in ____.

  • fall
  • summer
  • winter
  • spring

Put the right word in each blank. The sentences are from the text.

  1. Beds and chairs are covered with reindeer blankets.
  2. The body bags were for walking on the moon.
  3. You cannot go back to the same hotel next year. You can’t because the hotel will have .
  4. All the rooms and are ice.
  5. The hotel is out of ice. 

Put the right word in each blank. These are new sentences for words in the text.

  1. The wood had been into the shape of a flower.
  2. The sun had the snow.
  3. This is a rug made from the of a lion.
  4. Neil Armstrong was the first to set foot on the moon.
  5. I'm looking for a job that will enable me to my skills.
  6. He walked down the tiled and into the kitchen.