- •Premises and outhouse
- •Accommodation and maintanance
- •Vocabulary Work
- •Read the words below, crossing one out:
- •2. Practice good reading, paying attention to:
- •3. A) Use the text to find English equivalents to the following:
- •3. Say how the owners of the house described the things and features their house used to have. What changes did they make?
- •5. A) Fill in the blanks with corresponding synonyms.
- •Vocabulary note
- •Listening
- •1. Have you ever rented a flat or a room?
- •Grammar
- •Fill in some, no, (not) any, (not) much, little, a little, (not) many, few, a few, a lot of.
- •Insert articles where necessary:
- •Speaking
- •Describe, in as much detail as possible:
- •Pair work.
- •4. Write or discuss the answers to these questions.
3. Say how the owners of the house described the things and features their house used to have. What changes did they make?
sideboard; chest of drawers; bookcase; piano stool; floors; interior; garden shed; conservatory; fireplaces; electric fires; old installations; double bed; bunk bed; studio couch; garden.
4. 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.
1 |
things to sleep between |
(a pair of) sheets |
2 |
something to clean and polish table tops |
a duster |
3 |
something to wash your face with |
a flannel |
4 |
and to dry it with |
a towel |
5 |
something to wipe your mouth with after eating |
a serviette or napkin |
6 |
something to put round baby's bottom |
a nappy |
7 |
things to keep you warm in bed |
blankets (bedspread/duvet) |
8 |
something to blow your nose with |
a handkerchief (tissue, hankie) |
9 |
something to wash up with |
a dishcloth or scourer |
10 |
and dry the dishes with |
a tea-towel or tea cloth |
11 |
something to cover the table before laying it |
a table cloth |
12 |
something to put hot dinner plates on |
a table mat |
13 |
something to clean the floor with |
a floor cloth |
14 |
things to stop people peeping through the |
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|
windows at you |
net curtains (or blinds) |
(the exercise is taken from ‘The Heinemann ELT English Wordbuilder” by Guy Wellman)
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5. A) Fill in the blanks with corresponding synonyms.
Vocabulary note
comfortable - making you feel physically relaxed and satisfied
convenient - helpful, useful, or suitable when doing something and not causing problems
1. It must be ... living in a house like this.
2. It's more ... to stop here I think.
3. Though the hotel room was small it was clean and .... .
4. It's more ... for me to pay by credit card.
5. The most... thing in my room is my sofa.
6. Would 8:30 be a ... time to meet?
7. I think it's ... to have a lift in the house.
8. Are you ... on the sofa?
9. Make yourself....
10. I'm afraid it's not quite ... to cook on the open fire.
b) Say what is convenient and what is comfortable in your house/flat/room giving good justification.