- •Part I east or west – home is best
- •Part II where we live
- •8. What is there around your house?
- •9. What are the other parts of the house worth mentioning?
- •10. What can you see in the premises?
- •Places to live
- •Home is where you make it!
- •Dwell upon the following:
- •Tires are hub of new walls
- •Part III furniture
- •Hall (Entrance Hall)
- •Parts of a house
- •Living room
- •25 Feet long by 15 feet wide
- •Our sitting room
- •Exercise 5
- •Bedroom (Bedchamber)
- •My bedroom
- •Bathroom and toilet
- •Exercise 14
- •Kitchen
- •Speaking
- •Fill in the necessary words.
- •Give the English equivalents:
- •Exercise 19 Choose the most suitable word for each space. Part a. Furniture and fittings.
- •Part c. What do you have at home? Discuss it with your partner.
- •Speaking
- •Listening Moving in
- •My favourite room
- •Inside Homes Around the World
- •The use of walls and doors
- •A special kind of wall
- •Furniture
- •Exercise 1
- •Exercise 2 Fill in the missing words.
- •Lucky Houses
- •My house
- •What is student accommodation like in Great Britain?
- •Part IV housekeeping
- •A very dangerous invention
- •Exercise 4
- •Housekeeping
- •Speaking
- •Keeping your room tidy
- •It takes me ...... Minutes/ hours to do the room
- •Exercise 8 Translate the following sentences into English.
- •Arranging the house
- •Техніка у нас вдома
- •1001 Household hints
- •Speaking
- •Як ми робимо генеральне прибирання
- •The family who turned back the clock
- •Part V househunting
- •Buying a house
- •A new house
- •Just what we’re looking for!
- •Group Discussion: Finding a Flat or House
- •Community Activity: Looking at Ads in the Newspaper
- •Listening
- •Speaking Partners’ Interview: Your Landlord
- •Group Problem Solving: Problems with Your Landlord
- •Part VI a house of my dream
- •Dome sweet dome!
- •Designing a dream home
- •Expressing need
- •Revision topics
Arranging the house
Listen to the dialogue between Barbara and Charles. Fill in the blanks in the sentences below and practise the conversation with a partner.
Give me a hand with this _____, Charles. I want it over there by the ____.
Don’t you think it would be better under that _____ by the _____?
No. The _____ isn’t staying there anyway. I only ____ it on the ____ because it was in the way on the ____. We can arrange the pictures when all the ____ is in place.
Where did I put my big ____? It’s not in the ___ ____ and I want to _____ __ these ____ ____ on the door ____.
You had it in your hand when you went into the ____.
Yes, I think I put it down on the ____ above the ____.
Pass me that ____ behind the ____ before you go; and take your ____ off that nice ____ ____.
You didn’t shut him ____ last night, did you? He’ll get lost.
No, he’s definitely ____ the house. He’s probably crept into a ____ somewhere and gone to sleep.
Exercise 11
Cover the right-hand column. On the left are listed the uses of some rectangular pieces of material that no household should be without. Guess what they are and then check your answers in the right-hand column.
Exercise 12 Answer the questions. Follow the example. What can you do to these items? 1. Floor ________ 6. Dirty dishes ____ 2. Mirror _______ 7. Wet dishes _____ 3. Bed _________ 8. Flowers _________ 4. Furniture______ 9. Carpets _________ 5. Bathtub_______ 10. Laundry ________ |
a duster a flannel a towel a handkerchief (tissue, hanky/-ie) a dishcloth or scourer a tea towel or tea cloth a tablecloth a tablemat a floor-cloth/ a mop a clothes brush a vacuum cleaner a sweeper an ironing board
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Exercise 13
Render this text into English:
Техніка у нас вдома
Я - інженер і дуже люблю техніку. Моя дружина - вчителька, вона також любить техніку. Раніше дружина готувала смачні обіди та прала мої сорочки. Ввечері вона готувала на кухні обід, а я завжди читав газети або розповідав, як я провів день.
Коли ми купили холодильник, дружина сказала: “Тепер ти повинен навчитися мити його. Техніка – це твоя спеціальність“. Тепер я кожного місяця мию холодильник.
Потім ми купили пральну машину, і я навчився прати. Дружина сказала, що я непогано перу. Тепер, коли дружина готує на кухні обід, я мию холодильник або перу.
Я гадав, що техніка не прийде в кухню. Але дружина купила машину, яка чистить картоплю та інші овочі, готує коктейлі та каву. І тепер обід теж готую я.
У нас ще є телевізор та радіоприймач, котрі я повинен ремонтувати. Техніка допомогла мені зрозуміти, що домашня робота – це і чоловіча справа.
Reading
Read the text and be ready to describe the way you do housework yourself. Do you have some special secrets to keep your apartment spick and span?