Englich for Talking. Учебно-методическое пособие

4.A door handle used hundreds of times a day.

5.Paint on a fence not refreshed for a long time.

6.A car that is never put in a garage.

7.Steps and floors in an old house.

8.A white house in a polluted city.

9.Tiles on the roof of an old house.

10.A hoover dropped from a fifth-floor window.

(to get worn down by people's feet, to fall off, to go grey, to get dirty, to get polished, to break, to get broken, to get rusty, to rust, to crack, to crumble, to crack and peel)

Ex. 15. Find the meaning of the following words. Use them in sentences of your own.

B.to lead smb. down/up the garden path.

to be (lost) in a brown study; to fall into a brown study to have a head (memory) like a sieve

to be as thin as a rake

to roll out the red carpet for smb. to hit the ceiling

to have/to take the floor

to consult with one's pillow

to force (drive) smb. to the wall

Ex. 16. a) Which items of furniture go with the words given below?

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b)Fill in the blanks with the words and phrases from Ex.15 and Ex. 16.

1.Is he a ...? – Yes, I think so. He likes to wander about the antiquity shops occasionally to buy but more often to look.

2.The audience liked the performance and the actors had to take three ... .

3.All they wanted at the moment was ... .

4.A metal frame fixed on top of a car and used for carrying things is called ... .

5.Everybody believed Louise was ... .

6.The last time you ..., you talked for an hour.

7.My father ... when I damaged the car.

8.Now be honest with me. Don't ... .

9.They ... for the king and queen.

10.They had four children. They were all ... .

11.He won't tell the truth until you ... .

12.How could he ever live with himself after being a ... .

13.That ... advertising on TV has become irritating lately but none the less we watch TV as much as before.

14.What do we call an apparatus which carries people up and down steep slopes? – I think it's a ... .

15.The length of time a product will last without any reduction in quality while being kept in a shop is often called ... .

Ex. 17. Read the text and: a) say if Jeff and Lucilla were happy? Why?

“Jeff, I can't believe it. We've got a whole house to ourselves”. “So what are we waiting for? Let's get in”.

Lucilla went first, leading the way down the steps and along the length of the garden. A little house awaited them. They crossed the terrace and opened the door into a living-room. Curtains had been drawn and Lucilla went to pull them back. Light streamed in and she saw the little patio on the far side, the sheltered scrap of garden.

“We've even got our own place to sunbathe! ”

There was an open fireplace, stacked with logs. There were a few comfortable chairs, a tray of drinks and glasses, a coffee-table stacked neatly with magazines and a wall shelved with books. Opening other doors, they found two double bedrooms and a bathroom of marvellously spacious proportions.

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“I think this is the nicest bedroom. It's certainly the biggest”.

Jeff dumped the backpacks onto the tiled floor and Lucilla drew back more curtains. “We can see the sea from here. Just a little scrap, a triangle, but still a view of the sea”. She opened cupboard doors, saw rows of padded hangers, smelled lavender.

On detailed inspection the guest-house proved to be quite perfectly complete, and Lucilla was filled with admiration for such meticulous thought and planning. Someone had somehow thought of anything that a visitor might want or need, from fresh flowers and lovely new books right down to spare blankets for chilly nights and hot-water bottles for possibly unsettled tummies. The bathroom was supplied with every sort of soap, scents, shampoo, aftershave, body-lotion and bath-oil. There were thick white bath towels and bath-mats, and, hanging from the back of the door, a pair of voluminous and snowy-white towelling bathrobes.

Leaving all the luxury, Lucilla crossed the sitting-room and went in search of the kitchen, and found it ... .

b)Read the text once more and describe the living-room, the bedroom, the bathroom.

c)What do you think the kitchen may look like? Describe it using the words given below.

(to find smth. sparkling neat, to be filled with, pottery, shining saucepans, casseroles, electric/gas cooker, corkscrew, dishwasher, bunches of onions, fresh parsley in a mug, chopping board, electrical appliances, at the back of the kitchen, to be marvellously thought out, to be equipped with every sort of modern appliance, Dutch tile(stone), roller towel, pressure cooker, microwave oven, to concoct, a robust breakfast, to face the park (north/south), to live and work in comfort).

d)Would you like to have/rent a house like that? Give reasons. Make up a dialogue.

e)Furnish a room in your house. Ask your fellow student if he/she approves of your choice or would like to give you a piece of advice. Use the words given below:

(I can't say I'm a good (great) judge of ... ; to inflict one's views on/upon smb.; (not) to be behindhand with the world; far be it from me to tell you (to advise you) what to do but...; to be food for thought; my eye fell upon; to be all in favour of ...; to walk about the streets windowshopping; I just like the look of it; to furnish an apartment with objects of value; to have a homely lived-in air; to wander about antiquity shops occasionally to buy but more often to look).

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Ex. 18. a) Read and translate the advertisements using a dictionary.

b) What do you think these abbreviations mean?

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c) Read the commentaries; write an advertisement of your own. Offer smth. for sale and state your terms.

ono – or near offer

Sole agents – only for agents

Amenities – condition in a town, hotel ... that people can enjoy; which makes life pleasant and comfortable.

Lease – a written agreement by which a piece of land, building... is given to smb. for a certain time in return for rent.

Rent – money paid regularly for the use of a room, piece of land...

Snip – an attractive and surprisingly cheap article for sale, bargain

Summing up

Ex. 19. Fill in the blanks with a suitable word.

drawing room, a dresser, landing, attic, upstairs, homely, the house, the stairs, ajar, spacious, laundry, nurseries, doll's houses, passage, door, rooms, dining-room

Parking the car in the stable yard, Edwina carried her shopping indoors. The kitchen was huge and ___________, with an Aga,

____________ stacked with ironstone china, a basket of ____________

waiting to be ironed, and the two Labradors waiting to be taken for a walk. Without Henry, ______________ always felt strangely empty. She was suddenly aware of the deserted _______________ above and about her. The dust-sheeted _______________; the large ______________, scene of cheerful family meals, but now scarcely used, for she and Henry always ate at the kitchen. Her imagination wandered up

________________ to the wide ________ and the door leading off it, into the ____________ bedrooms where once the children had slept; down the

______________ to the white-painted ________________, the linen room, the bathrooms; up to the ______________, where she had stored the outgrown bicycles, perambulators, __________________, boxes of bricks.

She went __________________. On the landing every bedroom door was _________ and every light blazed in her own room.

Ex. 20. Fill in prepositions and adverbs where necessary.

1.People like to feel secure ... their own homes.

2.There were lots of framed photographs ... the mantelpiece.

3.O'K. I'll see you ... Helen's at 8 o'clock.

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4.A long corridor led ... the direction of a huge home library.

5.Terry's just bought himself a place over in Newgate, overlooking

... the harbour.

6.The piano was placed ... the corner of a big dancing hall and so there remained enough space for dances.

7.Jemma's moved ... a business apartment block in Manhattan.

8.All walls in the library were lined ... bookshelves.

9.She is going to stay ... lodgings until she finds a place of her own.

10.The two sisters were standing ... the doorstep when they saw somebody in the garden.

11.The company said Bonnie that she could go on the training course, but she had to pay ... her own accommodation.

12.The house was separated ... the pavement ... a high iron fence, the gate of which stood open.

13.Rebecca lodged ... an attic above the shop and came home at weekends.

14.The room was bigger than she expected ... about twenty feet (6 meters) long ... sixteen feet (5 meters) wide.

15.The street was lined ... identical red-brick houses.

16. ... the far end of the hall there was a marble fireplace, and ... it was a large pot of dying flowers.

17.I've lived alone so long. I'd find it difficult to share ... anyone else.

18.When my sisters got married and moved ... ... the apartment, it was just Mama and I sitting alone at night, listening to the neighbours' fight next door.

19.Mary roomed ... me for two months after her divorce.

20.The Fitch house was thirty miles outside ... Flagstaff. It was set back ... the mountains ... a steep, narrow road as the only access ...

the property.

21.Two movable screens divided the room ... three parts.

22.Where would you like to dwell ... ... the suburbs, or right ... ... the country?

23.Instead of being one storey high and spread ... ... the lawn, this house was compact and rose like a tower ... the hill.

24.Tell the children not to forget to wipe their feet ... the door-mat.

25.Mr. Rejan led me ... the dark hall and ... the steps ... a large kitchen that was warm ... the oven.

26.The record player ... the middle of the table ... this room with no other furnishings seemed out ... place.

27.So the question is: “Can she find a room in Putney ... a reasonable rent?”

28.The curtains were also red, but ... a lighter shade.

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29.The walls of the bathroom were tiled ... green and white squares.

30.They had moved into that house two years before and they had put it ... the hands of an expensive decorator.

31.The house was furnished ... extremely good taste, ... a judicious mixture of the antique and the modern.

32.The bed and dressing table were upholstered ... pink silk, the chaise-lounge and the armchair ... blue.

33.We went ... the doorway and into the big, pretty bedroom.

34.We went ... ... the room and ... the stairs, hand in hand ... the passage. ... the end of the passage a door stood open.

35.“I think”, - said Abigail, “it would be better if we went indoors”. She led the way ... the house, ... the garden door ... the sittingroom.

36.The floor was tiled ... diagonal squares … grey and white marble.

37.There was a great quantity of toys, neatly put ... order.

38.There were plenty of books in the room and they lay ... heaps on chairs and on the floor.

39.There were photographs and postcards pinned ... and pasted ...

tables and walls.

40.The walls were so densely covered ... pictures and looking glasses that it was hard to tell whether or how they were papered but the general tone and impression was of deep purple and red.

Ex. 21. Fill in the blank spaces with corresponding words.

1.He likes to spend the weekends with his family because his... life is very important to him.

2.Why don't you come ... to our ... for a drink on Saturday?

3.Our ... is the one with the pink door.

4.It's ridiculous. The lift's broken in their ... … … again.

5.How many bedrooms do you have in your ... ?

6.The immigrants' problems are made worse by the terrible ...

shortage.

7.There isn't enough ... in Brighton especially during the holiday season.

8.Between 1945 and 1970 the government built 110.000 new ... for low-paid workers.

9.The city will still ... and educate those who are too poor or disorganized to do it themselves.

10.Brigg had ... at Mrs. Fern's for two years and had got quite used to

... with the family.

11.Bill enjoyed living in … , and got on very well with his landlady.

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12.The local tourist office will help you find ... .

13.A social worker told the court that the man was still of ... … … .

14.From the airplane we could already see little ... of houses.

15.You have your own room, but you'll have to ... the kitchen and bathroom facilities.

16.The problem with having a ... telephone is that someone else always seems to be using it.

17.They ... ... but sent their children to England for their education.

18.The landlord collects the rent from all his ... on the first Monday of every month.

19.When I was in college, I ... with a guy who used to sleepwalk.

20.My ... is so selfish. He never does any of the housework.

21.I looked around the ... where I had spent most of my life.

22.If we're going to have a party I'll have to ask my ... first.

23.I ... ... … … , so if I need a doctor I have to travel a long way.

24.We pay ... separately, but we ... the other bills.

25.Virginia, in her ..., changed the sheets of their big double bed, her regular Monday morning chore.

26.Having heard the noises from within the tavern, Will left the safety of the ... and crept towards a hole in the tavern wall.

27.Her ... was two rooms on the top floor of a skyscraper.

28.It was not a town, only a ... of houses scattered at random from the bottom to the rising steps of the mountains.

29.He carried her across the threshold into his ... . She saw a few pieces of ... made by hand, a ... of bare rafters, an archway open upon a small ... with rough shelves, a bare wooden table and an electric ... .

30.She showed him a pine ... that she had bought and was going to fill with coloured china.

31.He was in his bedroom, standing at the ... and trying to tie his bow, when there came a tap at his door.

32.She went ..., switching on the light and opened the front door.

33.She went ... and took his picture from its wrappings and carried it into the sitting-room. She took down the heavy canvas that had hung for ever above the mantelpiece. Its departure revealed a lot of dust. She fetched a ... and cleaned it up.

34.She could hear sounds of the ... ... from downstairs, which meant that Mr. Brewer had started to work.

35.After lunch, with the dishes washed and the kitchen ..., Mrs. Fairburn changed into her gardening clothes and went out to sweep leaves.

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36.Holly Golightly had been a tenant in the... …; she'd occupied the ...

below mine.

37.Her new headquarters were two rooms on the … ... of a halfcollapsed building. The building still stood, but its upper storeys were boarded off as unsafe for occupancy.

38.A woman at the ... held the gate open and now they were in the park.

39.To reach the attic, you climbed a ladder in the linen ..., the ceiling of which was a trapdoor.

40.On winter afternoons, as soon as I came home from school, Dolly put a foot-high pot of coffee on the … and pushed a pan of biscuits into the … .

Ex. 22. Translate into English. Use the vocabulary of the Unit.

1.Куда выходят окна вашей комнаты?

2.Мы хотели купить собственный отдельный дом с большим садом и озером.

3.Между окон стоял книжный шкаф набитый книгами, а в противоположном углу – письменный стол, заваленный газетами и журналами.

4.Окна дома выходят на 2 стороны: на юг и на восток.

5.Рядом с моей комнатой – комната родителей. Она лучше моей, но не такая солнечная.

6.Он хозяин дома, я здесь гость (в гостях).

7.Мы вошли в гостиную, стены которой были окрашены в темно-синий цвет.

8.Они платят много за свою квартиру.

9.Газон перед домом – гордость всех англичан. Газон тщательно стригут и высаживают по дорожкам розы.

10.Осторожно! Здесь не много ступенек, но они очень крутые.

11.Комната так заставлена мебелью, что трудно подойти к окну.

12.Моя кухня очень хорошо оснащена современными бытовыми электроприборами.

13.Это комнатное растение у окна загораживает свет. Переставь его в угол.

14.Ковром свежего серого цвета был застелен почти весь пол.

15.Прихожая была темная, и мы решили, что нужно переклеить обои - подобрать более светлые.

16.Зимними вечерами я люблю сидеть в большом мягком кресле у камина при свечах.

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17.Расположение комнат очень удобное. Но не очень удобное местоположение дома относительно общественного транспорта и городского центра.

18.Я не думаю, что эти занавески подходят к обоям.

19.В России мало кто является собственниками домов в пригородах. Большинство людей живет в многоквартирных домах.

20.В магазинах на окраинах меньше народу.

21.Они задолжали за квартиру за 1 месяц.

22.Нужно включить пылесос, а я никак не могу найти розетку.

23.Большая комната была перегружена мебелью. Стулья расположились вдоль стены и вокруг стола. Диван в углу также окружали стулья.

24.Это были комнаты, обставленные красным деревом и карельской березой – мебелью строгой и чудесной.

25.Два квадратных шкафа стояли напротив письменного стола. Стол был безбрежен. По углам стояли кресла с высокими спинками.

26.Солнце лежало на персиковой обивке кресел.

27.Элисон живет в квартире в новом многоэтажном доме на окраине Лондона. Раньше она, ее брат и их родители жили в центре города, в старом доме.

28.Затем их дом, как и другие в этом районе, был снесен в связи со строительством новой дороги.

29.Том на лифте поднялся на последний этаж, где у каждой квартиры была кладовая. В этой комнатке хранились чемоданы, коробки, старые стулья.

30.Книги в застекленном шкафу были по-старинному переплетены в телячью кожу.

31.Образ самой миссис Дрэбби очень соответствовал такой обстановке.

32.Маргарет подумала, что одной из самых приятных особенностей этой комнаты было то, что в ней возникало ощущение, что будто детство не ушло.

33.С первого взгляда нельзя было даже определить размеры гостиной.

34.Казалось, в комнате было полно закутков, хотя комната представляла собой обычный прямоугольник: рыбки плавали в аквариуме, стоящем наверху книжного шкафа, и повсюду на маленьких подставках стояли цветы.

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