Vocabulary Bank

day off	выходной
to have a rest	отдыхать
to dedicate	посвящать
to hurry	торопиться
to chat	болтать
tasty	вкусный
cartoon	мультфильмы

Exercises

1. Answer the following questions:

1. How many days off do you have?

2. Do you get up early on your days off?

3. What do you usually do on your days off?

4. Do you spend your weekdays with your parents?

5. Describe one of your days off.

2. Make the sentences negative and interrogative:

1. I usually go to Institute six days a week so Sunday is my only day off.

2. My friends come to me.

3. I also prefer to go to the sports club or swimming pool.

4. On Sundays we invite our close friends and relatives for dinner.

5. In the morning my father and I go to the supermarket to buy the necessary food.

6. We watch cartoons or play games.

3. Give the English equivalents to the following phrases:

Будни, шесть раз в неделю, зарабатывать деньги, ходить в институт, выходные, общаться с друзьями, посвящать время себе, рано вставать, принимать душ, завтракать, отдыхать чуть-чуть, слушать радио, на улице, болтать, пить кока-колу, заниматься спортом, бассейн, близкий друг, родственники, вкусные блюда, мне все равно.

UNIT 3.

MY FLAT

I have got a flat. It is neither big nor small. It is on the fifth floor. The number of it is 59. Our flat has two rooms, a kitchen, a bathroom and a corridor.

Our living-room is big. It is light, because it has two wide windows. You can see a piano on the left. There is a round stool near the piano. The piano is new and black. The TV set is on the right. You can see an arm-chair and a sofa near the TV set. There is a picture on the wall, above the piano. It is a nice picture.

There is a round table in the middle of the room. You can see four chairs near the table. The sideboard is on the left. There are some pictures of modern painters on the wall.

The carpet hanging on the wall is big and grey. I like our living-room and I often spend my free time watching TV and reading newspapers and magazines in it.

I have my own room. It is small but light. There is enough furniture for the girl: a bed, a sofa, two arm-chairs, a dressing-table with three drawers and a mirror. You can see a small desk at the window. There are two chairs at the desk and a TV set in the corner of the room. The bookcase is near the door. There are many books in it. I have many bookshelves in my room. You can see Russian and English books there. There is a red carpet on the floor. The curtains on the window are also red. I like my room very much. When my friends come to see me I invite them into my room.

It is a pity that we have no balcony.

Our kitchen is big and comfortable. The furniture in the kitchen is not dark, it is light. A new refrigerator stands near the window. We usually have breakfast and supper in the kitchen.

The bathroom is small. We wash ourselves there in the morning and in the evening. You can see a washing-machine near the door. We have a vacuum-cleaner, it is in the bathroom too.

The corridor of our flat is long and narrow. There is a telephone in it.

I like my flat. My friends say that it is a good one.