- •Предисловие
- •Some Important Things from the Educational Environment
- •Vocabulary exercises
- •College Life
- •Vocabulary exercises
- •B. Our University Active Vocabulary
- •Our University
- •Vocabulary exercises
- •Self check
- •Unit 2 Our Studies. Our English Lesson Active Vocabulary
- •Introducing the new vocabulary
- •Our Studies
- •Career Prospects
- •II. Listening and comprehension tasks
- •2.1. Check your understanding of the dialogue by marking the following statements as True or False. Comment on your choice.
- •2.2. Listen to the dialogue focussing on the details and answer the questions.
- •2.3. Listen to the dialogue once again and while doing it write down all the information that may characterize the boys.
- •III. Follow up activities
- •Self check
- •Unit 3 Taking Exams Active Vocabulary
- •Taking Exams
- •A Students’ Guide to Exam Stress
- •After the Exams
- •Vocabulary exercises
- •Unusual Types of Houses
- •II. Listening and comprehension tasks
- •2.1. Listen to 4 people talking about their houses and mark the statements as True or False.
- •2.2 Listen to the descriptions again and fill in the chart below.
- •III. Follow up activity
- •B. American Home
- •1. Answer these questions about yourself and, if possible, find out how someone else would answer them.
- •Self Check
- •A Letter Home
- •В. Renting a Room Active Vocabulary
- •In England many people let rooms in their houses to people who need somewhere to live. The people pay money for this and are called lodgers.
- •Imagine you are going to let / rent a room / flat. The questions below will help you get all the information you need.
- •Sharing a Flat
- •Phoning a Landlord
- •II. Listening and compehenstion tasks
- •III. Follow up activity
- •Self Check
- •Unit 3 Buying a House Active Vocabulary
- •Buying a House
- •Looking for a House to Buy
- •Unit 4 Furniture and Furnishing Active Vocabulary
- •Around the Home a. Rooms
- •Vocabulary exercises
- •House for Sale
- •III. Follow up activity
- •Self Check
- •Unit 5 Your Ideal Home
- •I. Foodstuffs
- •III. Ways of Cooking
- •Vocabulary exercises
- •Use the following examples as a model.
- •В. Cooking Methods and Ways of Cooking. Recipes
- •Cooking Methods
- •Vocabulary exercises
- •Giving Instructions
- •Bread and Butter Pudding
- •Cinnamon-Sugar Apple Pie
- •Salmon In Puff Pastry
- •Special Family Food
- •How do you make…?
- •2. Listen to the recording. Rearrange the instructions in the correct order. Remember that there is one extra instruction which is not given.
- •3. Compare your answer with a partner and, if necessary, listen again to settle any disagreements.
- •Self check
- •Unit 2 National Cuisines. Customs of Having Meals a. National Cuisines
- •English Cooking
- •Traditional British Cooking
- •American Food
- •Belarusian Cookery
- •B. Customs of Having Meals Active Vocabulary
- •Vocabulary exercises
- •The Customs of Having Meals in England
- •Daily Meals in Belarus
- •I. Take turns discussing these questions with your partner.
- •II. Make up dialogues following the models given below.
- •Listen to the interview with Yves and answer the following questions:
- •Listen to the interview once again and fill in the chart.
- •Self check
- •Unit 3 Table Manners
- •A List of Do’s and Don’ts
- •Unit 4 Eating Out Active Vocabulary
- •Eating Out
- •The Old Mill, The Quay, Wardleton, Sussex
- •Fast Food
- •(A) Lunch for Two
- •1. Listen to the conversation and complete the sentences choosing the right variant:
- •2. Listen to the conversation again and answer the following questions.
- •(B) Eating Out
- •1. Listen to the conversation and fill in the gaps.
- •Conversational Formulas.
- •Invitations. Thanks. Refusals
- •Invitation
- •In a restaurant
- •With a girl-friend in a coffee bar
- •In a cafe
- •Chocolate Nut Sundae
- •Self check
- •Unit 5 Healthy Food. Dieting Active Vocabulary
- •We Ought To Eat More Fresh Fruit
- •Nutrients That Provide Energy
- •Tips for Healthy Eating and Cooking
- •Some Facts about Diet
- •Guidelines for Slimmers
- •Self check
- •Part IV. Shopping
- •Unit 1
- •Describing Shops. American and English Shops
- •Active Vocabulary
- •Baker’s / bakery
- •Vocabulary exercises
- •At the Supermarket
- •Shopping List
- •Unit 2 Shopping for Foodstuffs
- •Why is buying foodstuffs considered to be a sort of art? Read the passage and share your opinions. Buying Foodstuffs
- •At a grocery store
- •Some Hints and Tips on Shopping for Food
- •Self Check
- •Vocabulary exercises
- •The Big Stores
- •Shopping
- •Buying souvenirs
- •The spendthrift
- •Buying a present
- •Bargaining
- •Buying Clothes
- •Listen to the first recording and fill in the relevant information.
- •Listen to the recording and answer the following questions.
- •Listen to the second recording and tick the words you’ve heard on the tape:
- •Listen to the recording again and match parts a-e with a-e.
- •Self Check
- •Unit 2 Career Prospects
- •Part II unit 1 Unusual Types of Houses
- •Unit 2 Phoning a Landlord
- •Unit 3 Looking for a House to Buy
- •Unit 4 House for Sale
- •References
Sharing a Flat
Sharing a flat certainly has some advantages. To begin with, it should be cheaper, and if you are sharing with people that you get on well with, it is nice to have some company at home rather than being alone and on your own. Also the household chores are shared and that is very important. Particularly, when you are younger, and you are living apart from your parents for the first time, it can be very enjoyable to live with people of your own age, whose interests and life-style you share.
However, sharing a flat does have some distinct disadvantages, and the main one is that the flat is not your own. So you cannot do what you want in it. What happens if your flat-mate wants to play music? To a certain extent you have to be unselfish. What is more, there can be little privacy.
I would say that as you get older, it is probably better to live on your own. Having had my own flat for a few years, I would not like to have to share again.
□ WRITING
Use the text as a model to write your personal opinion of sharing a flat.
♦ Listening
Phoning a Landlord
I. Pre-listening task
Here are some words you will hear in the recording. Study their pronunciation and meaning.
there’s nothing extra to pay – дополнительная оплата не требуется
deposit (n) – залог, задаток
that sounds fair – это звучит справедливо
the front-door key – ключ от входной двери
tube station – станция метро (в Лондоне)
II. Listening and compehenstion tasks
Angela is a student at a university. She is looking for a room to let. She saw an advertisement and has decided to phone the landlord. Listen to the recording and find out what information Angela Smiley got from the landlord.
III. Follow up activity
Do you think Angela will rent the room or not? Why?
Speaking
Pretend you are a landlord / landlady. Think of the rules you want to have in your house. Then ask another student these questions and decide if you think he / she would be a suitable person to have in the house.
Imagine you want to rent a room in a house. Make a list of questions you want to ask. Then ask another student these questions and decide if you would like to live in his / her house.
You try to persuade a friend of yours that it’s very enjoyable to share a room with people of your age. Your friend is of a different opinion.
You are going to move away from the hostel. You see an advertisement in the local paper and come to have a look at the room and ask a few questions. Say whether you find this variant suitable or not. Your final decision may be:
you like it and are going to rent it;
you don’t like the room, you are going to look for another one.
Self Check
Exercise 1. Explain the difference between:
a landlord and a lodger;
a rent and a deposit;
a mortgage and a lease;
ground floor and first floor;
a cottage and a bungalow;
a bedsit and a studio;
a villa and a time-share.
Exercise 2. Put one of the following words in each space in the sentences below.
for at in on of into with |
She wanted a place ____ her own.
He’ll move ____ tomorrow.
He’ll move ______ his new flat tomorrow.
I share the kitchen ________ three other people.
The landlord asked the tenant ________ more rent.
My flat is ________ the top floor.
My flat is ________ a modern block.
The house is _________ good condition.
I looked _________ advertisements _______ the newspaper.
She pays a rent _______ £ 90 a week.
Exercise 3. Put each of the following words or phrases in its correct position in the passage below.
deposit fee flat advertisement self-contained landlord rent block references accommodation agency |
The first thing I had to do in London was to find somewhere to live, if possible a small, one-bedroom (a)__________. I didn’t want to share a kitchen or toilet; I wanted to be independent in my own (b)__________ place. I decided I could pay a (c)__________ of £ 50 a week. I couldn’t find what I wanted in the newspaper (d)__________ so I went to an (e)________. They offered me a nice place. It was in a modern (f)________ on the third floor. I had to pay the agency a (g)_________, and the (h)_________ wanted a big (i)_________ and (j)_________ from my employer and bank manager.