6. A house of my dream

Everybody has a place to live in. It can be a room or a flat, or a house, or a residence, or even a castle. Some people would like to live in another place.

I like the house I live in but I would like to live in a sky-scraper if I had such a possibility. But there are no sky-scrapers in our country at all because this climate doesn't do for them, as for my future flat it will be situated on the last storey, because I like height and can enjoy the panorama of the city at any time.

My flat will consist of a living-room, a bed-room, a kitchen and a bathroom. There also will be a pantry. All the rooms will be spacious and light. The living-room will be the biggest one. There will be a soft sofa in the center of the room. It will be a leather, white sofa with white cushions. Nearby there will be a glass journal-table, with some magazines there. To the right of it there will be a black post with a big colour TV set. To the left of the sofa there will be a post with an excellent music-center of the latest model I'll have a lot of videocassettes and compact discs. There will also be a black stove-bench. At the wall there will be some book-cases with the books on Literature, Psychology and English of course. Everything will be in modern style in my apartment. The living-room will be a corner room and 2 walls of it will be made of glass from the floor up to the ceiling. There will also be jalousie there. I think it will be my favorite room to spend my free time being tired.

The bedroom will have a window from the floor up to the ceiling to have a marvelous view. Though I'll have such enormous windows it won't be cold in my apartment, because the floor will be heated. In the center of the room there will be a huge bed with a white silk canopy over it, which will match a white-snow bedspread. On each side of the bed there will be bedside tables. There will be a big wardrobe, a chest of drawers, some book-shelves and a cheval glass too. There will be high thin black china statuettes to provide the atmosphere of mystery.

But the most important place in any flat must be a kitchen. It is a place where we spend much time cooking, eating and sometimes reading. The kitchen of my future flat will be very light. There will be a fridge, an electric stove, a deep freeze and a lot of cupboards and dressers there to keep utensil.

There will be some modern conveniences in my flat, such as central heating, electricity, hot and cold running water, a chute, some lifts and a telephone.

And as I live on the last floor I'll have a tremendous balcony. In the evenings, Г11 go out there to look at the city-lights and think about one problem: Why people can't fly?

Exercises

I. Fill in the blanks with proper prepositions:

1. I like the house I live ....

2. To the right ... the writing-table, there is a sofa with some cushions ... it.

3. When you want your living-room to be light, you would better have a window ... the floor... the ceiling.

4. Kitchen is the most important place for cooking, knitting and different things to do ... every flat.

5. My flat is situated ... the fifth floor. And what storey is your apartment...?

6 The Russia's climate doesn't do ... sky-scrapers.

7. There is a leather armchair ... the corner ... my bedroom.

II. Organize the nouns according their belongings to: a kitchen, a living-room, a bed-room, a study, a hall.

А chest-drawers, a journal-table, a stove, a computer, a music-center, a double-bed, a TV-set, a bedside table, a hall-stand, an arm-chair, a mirror, a book-case, a writing-table, a cooker, a wardrobe, a chair, a fridge, book-shelves, a cheval-glass, an electric stove, a stool, a dresser, a deep freeze, a desk, a corner sofa, a post.

III. Translate into English.

1. Гостиная в любой квартире - самая светлая и просторная комната, где обычно по вечерам собирается вся семья.

2. Ничего нет более приятного, чем сидеть в уютном кресле и смотреть телевизор в дождливую и промозглую погоду.

3. У противоположной стены стоит туалетный столик с большим зеркалом.

4. Слева от стола располагается большой платяной шкаф с вешалками, которые используются для хранения одежды.

5. Только сентиментальные люди любят, когда в их спальнях развешены портреты родственников.

6. Комната моей дочери не такая большая, как гостиная, но она уютная и обставлена по последнему слову.

7. В этой комнате немного мебели: - только самые необходимые предметы, потому что больше всего я люблю простор.

8. Книжный шкаф в кабинете буквально “напичкан” книгами. Среди них много иностранных книг в оригинале и в переводе, различные словари, и конечно – художественная литература.

9. Наша квартира хорошо спланирована.

10. “Мой дом - моя крепость” - гласит пословица. Человек может в своем доме работать, отдыхать и просто - жить.