Reading

1. Read the text.

Club culture in Britain.

Going to nightclubs, or “clubbing” as it called, is very popular in Britain. From the age of about fifteen young people like to go clubbing at the weekend. Usually friends meet in the evening and go to a pub or a cafe, or just sit at home and chat. Then, late in the evening, after 10 pm, they travel to the centre of the town and wait in a queue outside the nightclub.

There are clubs which play only one kind of music, but most have different music on different nights. There is a chill-out room in the club. It is for people who are tired of dancing. They can relax there.

When you go clubbing, you need a special outfit. It’s a good idea to come to the club in a taxi and also order a taxi to take you home. It’s very expensive, but teens usually share the fare.

There is usually a bar there. If you want beer or cocktail, the barman must check your identification. You have to prove you are old enough to drink. The legal age is eighteen.

There are often “under-eighteens” nights. Normally you must be eighteen to get into a club. At the door one can usually see a bouncer. On a normal night he checks the identification of all the clubbers as they enter the club. You need to show a card with a photograph, like a driver’s license. A teen usually spends about forty pounds on a night out, including the taxi home.

Vocabulary

queue – очередь

chill-out room – комната для отдыха

to share the fare – делить оплату между собой

bouncer – вышибала

2. Answer the questions to the text.

1. Why is clubbing very popular in Britain?

2. What is the legal age of going clubbing?

3. What are “under-eighteens” nights?

4. What does a bouncer do?

5. How much do teens usually spend on a night out?

6. Would you like to go clubbing? Why?

3. Please, point out the prepositions and there is/there are constructions.

4. Give a short summary of the text in English.

Listening

1. Listen to the dialogue.

I live in a house.

-Where do you live, Bob?

-In London.

-Bob, I know that! But which part?

-Oh, I see. I live in Kensington.

-Uh. Do you live in an apartment of a house? Oh, you don’t say “apartment” in Britain, do you? You say “flat”.

-That’s right. But it isn’t.

-It isn’t what?

-It isn’t a flat. It’s a house.

-A house?

-Yes.

-How big is it? I mean, hoe many rooms has it got?

-Well, downstairs there is a small kitchen, a beautiful dining room, and two sitting rooms.

-Two sitting rooms! And upstairs?

-Upstairs it’s got two large bedrooms and two small bedrooms.

-That’s four bedrooms!

-Mm…and there are two bathrooms, and a toilet. Oh, yes, and there is a toilet downstairs too.

-Hey! You’ve got a very big house! Has it got a garden?

-A garden? In Kensington! No, it hasn’t! Have you got a garden?

-Yes, I have.

-Oh! You are lucky.

2. What was the dialogue about?

3. Read it and point out the prepositions and there is/there are constructions.