Insert the suitable word from active vocabulary:
I
live in a big on the fifth of
a 9-storeyed of
Alice lives at 14, October Avenue in _____with all modern ( ____in the kitchen, ____ , ______, and _______ everywhere).
There are four rooms in our flat ( , , two ) , , and . My room is rather and __ and has two windows which a garden in front of the house.
There is a daybed in the room, where I my books and text-books, at which I usually sit and do my homework, a small TV-set, video, CD-player and a chair.
My parent’s bedroom is a large with a big window and two doors; one door is leading to , another to the balcony. There is a double bed in the room, , two , a built-in and some on the wall.
The living-room is also very nice, it on our big yard. On the left there is a divan-bed and two easy chairs. In the left hand corner there is . Above the table there is a lamp (wall bracket). On the right there is . In the right hand corner there is a colour _____. At one of the walls there is an electric fire (электрокамин). Against there are two . In the middle of the there is and four high-back chairs around the table. At one of the walls (on the right) there is a cupboard wall unit for plates, , , ______ and . A lamp with a nice hanging from the ceiling above the table makes the drawing-room nice and .
I am very proud of our kitchen. Here you can see . There are also several kitchen units, with two , wall units on the wall. In the entrance there is a big built-in cupboard where we a vacuum cleaner, bags and other things. There is also and a hat and coat rack (вешалка) in the hall. There are some flowers in the vase on .
5. Make up sentences using new words and expressions.
READ. THINK . ANALYZE. TRANSLATE. ANSWER QUESTIONS.
Read the text and be ready to create your own description
of your house or the rooms in your flat (students’ hostel).
MY HOME
1. We have a nice flat far from the centre of our town. Our family lives in Gomel in Bogdanov Street in a new block of flats. It is a new nine-storeyed building. As there are nine storeys in the building it has a lift. We got it 5 years ago. We live on the fifth floor. There is a shop on the ground floor. Our flat is large and comfortable. Our new flat has four rooms. It has all modern conveniences: running (cold and hot) water, electricity, gas, a lift, a rubbish chute and telephone.
2. The flat we live in is really lovely. Though there are four rooms in our flat the living-room we like best because in the evenings we gather here, have tea, watch TV, have a pleasant chat and rest. The hall is not very large. There is a small table there, a wardrobe, a round mirror on the wall and a shag rug on the floor in front of the door.
3. The living-room is the largest and most comfortable room in our flat. The big window faces the yard. The curtains on the window match the walls. The walls of our living-room are white. This room is a furnished one: there are two comfortable armchairs and a sofa, a small coffee-table, a TV-set in the corner of the room, a wall unit and a folding table. On the right there is a piano. On the floor there is a lovely Persian fitted carpet. On the walls you can see two pictures and some bookshelves. The ceiling is high.
4. We have two bedrooms: one is for our parents and another one is for children. Our bedrooms are a bit smaller than the living-room and not so light. The bedrooms’ windows are also smaller. In each room there are two beds with a bedside-table between them. An alarm-clock and a small lamp with a pink lamp-shade are on the table. At the opposite wall there is a dressing-table. In our bedrooms we have a built-in wardrobe with coat-hangers to hang clothes on. The children’s bedroom also serves as the study. There are two built-in bookcases and a writing table.
5. The fourth room is the study. It is not so large as the living-room but it is as cosy as all the other rooms. There is not much furniture in it. It has a writing-desk with drawers to keep papers in. Pens, pencils, a writing-pad and some library books are lying on the desk. Near the writing – table there is a telephone. On the right there is a desk-clock and a calendar. A desk- armchair is standing before it. There are books on the shelves all round the walls of the study. In the right-hand corner there is a bookcase full of many books. Among them you can find classical and contemporary literature, detective and historical novels, lyric poems, professional and technical literature. A small table with a TV-set is standing in the left-hand corner. Our TV-set is of the latest model.
6. The next room is our kitchen. In the morning we all have breakfast in the kitchen. In it there is a kitchen table, four stools, three kitchen-cupboards for cups, saucers, plates and dishes, a fridge to keep food cool in hot weather and a number of shelves for pans, frying-pans and kettles. The refrigerator is in the corner. It doesn’t use much electricity. The gas stove is opposite to the entrance door to cook the meals or boil the kettle on. It has two taps, one for hot water and the other for cold water. There is always running hot and cold water. The kitchen serves us as a dining-room, too.
7. Then we have a bathroom. In it there is a bath with a shower and wash-basin with a mirror over it. To the right of the mirror there is a towel-rail, to the left of it there is a shelf to keep tooth-brushes, tooth-paste and soap on.