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1. There are three rooms in our flat 2. There is a built-in wardrobe in the room. 3. There are two beds and a bedside-table in the bedroom. 4. There is a radio on the table. 5. There is a carpet on the floor. 6. There are many houses in our street. 7.

There are a lot of English books on the shelf. 8. There is a TV-set in the corner of the room.

6. Add question-tags to the following statements.

Model: There is a vase on the table. - There is a vase on the table, isn’t there? 1. There are two pencils on the table. 2. There aren’t a lot of children in the park. 3. There is no central heating in your house. 4. There is no chute in your kitchen. 5.

There are taps for cold and hot water in the bathroom. 6. There are no curtains at the windows in the bedroom. 7. There is no much furniture in this room. 8. There are a lot of knives, forks and spoons in the drawers of the sideboard. 9. There is a sofabed in the left-hand corner. 10. There isn’t a television in that room.

7.Answer the following questions. Use the construction there is /there are.

1.What is there on the table?

2.How many books are there on the table?

3.What kind of books is there in your classroom?

4.Is there a blackboard in your classroom?

5.Are there many tables in your classroom?

6.How many tables are there in your classroom?

7.Are there many chairs in this room?

8.How many chairs are there in this room?

9.What is there in your classroom?

10.How many mistakes are there in your dictation?

11.Are there many children in the theatre?

12.Is there an institute in your home town?

13.How many universities are there in your home town now?

14.How many theatres are there in Actobe?

15.How many cinemas are there in Actobe?

16.How many pages are there in this book?

8.Write questions to the underlined words and let your fellow-student answer them.

Model: There is a large table in the middle of the room.- What is there in the middle of the room? What kind of table is there in the middle of the room?

1.There’s a nice park in our city. 2. There are five chairs in the room. 3. There are some English text-books on my table. 4. There are a lot of mistakes in your exercisebook. 5. There are three mistakes in my dictation. 6. There’s a new cinema near my house.

9.Compose 10 questions using there is /there are and answer them.

Model: Are there many fruit trees in your garden? -Yes, there are.

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Is there an apple on your table? – No, there isn’t.

10. Insert it is or there is.

1.___ fine today. 2. ___ no telephone in this flat. 3. ___ an underground station not far from my house. 4. ___ nearly 10 o’clock. 5. ___ a pity that you can’t come with me. 6. ___ late. We must hurry. 7. ____ a light in the kitchen. Mother is at home. 8.

____ no place like home. 9. ____ time to go to bed. 10.____ not true to say that she is a close friend of mine.

11. ____ windy. I don’t want to go out. 12. ____ far from here. Let’s take a taxi.

11. Translate the following into English. Use the construction there is/there are, it is

А. 1. В нашем городе много школ и пять институтов. 2. На том столе много журналов? – Нет, только два. 3. В этой комнате два окна. 4. Какие книги на том столе? – На нем русские и английские книги. 5. На нашем заводе много инженеров. 6. На этом столе нет (никаких) тетрадей. 7. Сколько мальчиков и девочек в нашем классе? – Двенадцать мальчиков и восемь девочек.

Б. 1. У меня на столе интересная книга. На столе есть интересная книга. 2. У него в диктанте нет ошибок. В этом диктанте нет ошибок. 3. Здесь есть много интересных статей. У нее здесь много интересных статей. 4. В этом классе мало (не много) девочек. У них в классе мало (не много) девочек.

В. 1. Недалеко от нашего дома есть новая школа. Новая школа находится недалеко от нашего дома. 2. В центре города находится театр. Театр находится в центре города. 3. Ошибка в пятом предложении. В пятом предложении есть ошибка. 4. Журнал лежит на том стуле. На том стуле нет никаких журналов. 5. В этом тексте есть новые слова. Новые слова на доске.

Г. 1.Еще очень рано. Не уходи. 2. В этой комнате слишком много мебели. 3. Здесь солнечно и светло. 4. В этом доме все современные удобства. 5. Очень приятно сидеть перед телевизором по вечерам. 6. В этой комнате нет телефона. Он в коридоре.

7. Сейчас 11 часов. Давайте выпьем чашку кофе. 8. В ванной комнате есть душ и умывальник.

12.Write in words the following ordinal numerals:

1st; 3rd; 5th; 19th; 2nd; 4th; 8th; 12th; 20th.

13.Write in words.

Model: 13 + 45 = 58 (Thirteen plus forty-five is fifty-eight). 50 – 31 = 19 (Fifty minus thirty-one is nineteen). 15 x 2 = 30 (Fifteen multiplied by two is thirty). 30: 2 = 15 (Thirty divided by two is fifteen).

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14. a) Write down the following numerals in words:

134, 298, 355, 948, 3526, 9011, 193, 561, 7 506 017, 35 616 234.

b) Read the following numerals and telephone numbers quickly:

104, 151, 175, 189, 1012, 1017, 1038, 2568, 4083, 5993, 6410, 10 784, 257 629, 841 403, 2 184 001, 134-86-78, 253-64-92, 289-47-30.

Text: My home I

We have a nice flat rather far from the centre of the city. It is in a new sixteenstorey high-rise building in Gagarin Avenue. As there are so many storeys in the building it has two lifts.

Our flat is on the fourth floor. It has all modern conveniences such as central heating, gas, electricity, cold and hot water, and a chute to carry rubbish down.

There are three rooms, a kitchen, a bathroom and a hall in our flat.

The living-room is the largest and most comfortable room in the flat. In the middle of the living-room we have a square dinner-table with six chairs round it. There is a hanging lamp above the table. To the right of the dinner-table there is a wall-unit which has several sections: a sideboard, a wardrobe and some shelves. At the opposite wall there is a piano with a piano stool before it.

Between the two large windows there is a little table with a colour TV set on it. Our TV set is of the latest model. Near the TV set there are two armchairs. Nothing is more pleasant in rainy weather than to sit in a comfortable armchair and watch TV programmes.

A small round table, a divan-bed and a standard lamp are in the left-hand corner. This table is for newspapers and magazines.

The walls of the living-room are light-green and there are a few prints and water-colours on them.

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The bedroom is smaller than the living-room and not as light as there is only one window in it. In this 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. In the left-hand corner there is a dressing-table with a big mirror.

In this room we have a built-in wardrobe with coat-hangers to hang clothes on. There is a thick carpet on the floor and plain light-brown curtains on the window.

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III

The third room is the study. It is not as large as the dining-room but it is as cosy as all the other rooms. There is not much furniture in it, only the most necessary pieces. It has a writing-desk with drawers to keep papers in. Pens, pencils, a writing-pad and a few dictionaries are lying on the desk. There is a telephone on the left. Just behind it there is a reading lamp. On the right there is a desk-clock and a calendar. A deskarmchair is standing before it. I’ve also got a computer on a little table near the desk. There are books on the shelves all round the walls. In the righthand corner there is a bookcase full of books. Among them there are many English books in the original and in translation as I am a student of English.

A small table with a radio is standing in the left-hand corner. Near it there is a sofa with some cushions. In my opinion the study is the best room in our flat.

Dialogue: Moving in

Alice and Ben are ready to move into their flat. They are examining their new flat and discussing where to put the furniture.

A.: ‘Let’s’ start with the kitchen.

B.: ‘All right. It is light and pleasant. There is a gas-stove here to cook the meals or boil the kettle on.

A.: Look, there is a sink and a dish-washer to wash the dishes in after meals.

B.: How wonderful! Come over there, Alice, there is a built-in refrigerator in the kitchen!

A.: A fridge to keep food cool or frozen in hot weather! That’s marvellous!

B.: And there are a number of shelves and two kitchen-cupboards for pans, fryingpans and kettles.

A.: One of the cupboards is good for plates and dishes, cups and saucers as well as for cutlery.

B.: There is very little furniture we need to buy as the kitchen has fitted units, just a kitchen table and some stools or chairs, nothing else.

A.: You’re right. Some pretty curtains for the window are so nice and cheerful, too! Now let’s go into the study.

B.: Here we are! This room is very good for the study.

A.: Yes, there is enough places for a writing-desk over there by the window.

B.: And the best place for the bookcase is to the right of the writing-desk in the right-hand corner.

A.: What about the divan?

B.: There is no room for it here. Besides my study is a room for work, not rest. A.: Your study?!

My sister’s flat

My sister left her Institute two years ago and went to work in Norilsk. She is an engineer and works at a factory. She got a very comfortable flat last month in a

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new block of flats. It’s on the third floor. I’ve got a letter from my sister on the fifth of March with several pictures of the city and her flat.

This is a picture of my sister’s flat. Look at it. There’s a study and a bedroom in it, but there isn’t a sittingroom or a dining-room. She has a living-room and she uses it as a sitting-room and a dining-room. There’s also a kitchen and a bath-room in her flat, but you can’t see them in this picture.

This is her living-room. The walls in this room are yellow. The ceiling’s white and the floor are brown. You can see a square table in the middle of the room. There’s a vase of flowers on it. There’s an arm-chair and a standard-lamp in the corner. There’s also a piano in the room. My sister plays the piano very well. She loves music.

To the right of the piano you can see a door. It’s open. “Can you see a writing-table?” - “Yes, I can.”

“Are there any books on it?” - “Yes, there are some.”

“What else is there on the writing-table?” - “There’s a telephone and a radio set on it.”

“Is the television set on the table too?”- “No, I ‘can’t see it.”

“’Is there a sofa in this room?”- “No, there isn’t a sofa, but there’s a bookcase in the corner“

“Which room’s this?”- “It’s the study”.

To the left of the piano you can also see a door. It’s open, too. “Are there many things in that room?”- “No, there aren’t.” “Which room’s that”- “It’s the bedroom.”

“Is my sister’s flat comfortable?”

“How many rooms are there in her flat?”

Vocabulary Notes on the Text 1. flat (Amer. apartment) – квартира

The flat is well-planned (badly-planned, cosy, comfortable, well laid out).

2.far from – далеко от Opp. near – близко от

3.floor, storey - этаж

Эти слова часто заменяют друг друга:

on the ground floor, on the first storeyна первом этаже Our flat is on the first floor.

On the second storeyна втором этаже

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Когда спрашивают о количестве этажей в доме, употребляют слово storey:

How many storeys are there in your house?

Когда речь идет о многоэтажных, многоквартирных домах, то вместо слова house часто употребляют слова building, block of flats или apartment house:

a five-storey (ed) building – пятиэтажныйдом a many-storeyed building – многоэтажный дом a multi-storeyed buildingвысотныйдом

a high-rise building

Слово block может также иметь значение «квартал». 4. Обратите внимание на употребление предлогов:

To the right of the dinner-table there is a sideboard. on the right (left) – справа (слева)

On the right there is a desk-clock.

6.between prep. – между

Between the two large windows there is a little table. among prep. – среди

Among my books there are many English novels in the original.

7.… a built-in wardrobe with coat-hangers to hang clothes on – стенной шкаф с вешалкамидля одежды

… a fridge to keep food cool in hot weather – холодильник для хранения продуктовв жаркую погоду

8.a piece of furniture – отдельныйпредмет обстановки

Слово piece может сочетаться со следующими существительными: a piece of news – новость

a piece of advice – совет

a piece of art – произведение искусства

9.a radio=a radio set – приемник

10.a cupboard

a bathroom cupboard

a kitchen cupboard - шкаф, буфет a dining-room cupboard

Additional material to the lesson residential area – жилой дом

within easy reach of shops and metro stations – недалеко от магазинов и метро a five-minute walk from … - в пяти минутах ходьбы от …

a bedsitter= a bed-sitting room – комната, которая сдаетсяквартиранту parquet –паркет

linoleum – линолеум

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a suite (a set) of furniture – гарнитур a bedroom (dining-room, kitchen) set a tape-recorder – магнитофон

a video=a video tape-recorder – видеомагнитофон a record-player – проигрыватель

Vocabulary and Speech Exercises

A.1. Read and translate the text.

2.Ask questions about the text and let your fellow-students answer them.

3.Draw a plan of the living-room (bedroom, kitchen) described in the text and the dialogue and speak about it.

B.4. Agree with the following remarks.

Pattern: - It’s a very sunny room.

a)Yes, it is … (простое подтверждение факта)

b)So it is … - В самом деле? (выражение удивления).

c)Of course, it is … - Конечно. (очевидный факт)

1.We must buy a new standard-lamp. – Of course ….

2.The Petrovs are moving into a new flat. – So ….

3.Their flat is well-planned. – Yes ….

4.Someone is coming. The door bell is ringing. – So ….

5.There is room enough for a sideboard here. – Of course ….

6.Mary is a grey-eyed girl. – So ….

7.John has got a new tape-recorder. – Yes ….

8.There are a lot of students among your friends. – Of course ….

9.Ann’s flat is on the third floor. – Yes ….

10.These curtains are a bit too dark. – Yes ….

5. Write the names of the things that you can usually find in a dining-room, a livingroom, a study, a bedroom, a bedsitter, a kitchen.

6. Give a) the opposite of:

In the left-hand corner, comfortable, well-laid out, well-planned, to the right of, near University, above, behind, one-storey building, much furniture, books in the original

b) words or expressions similar to:

East or West, home is best; flat; in front of; in the centre of the room; on the first storey; radio set

7.Explain the meaning of the following words according to the pattern. Pattern: A kitchen is a room to cook meals in.

A cupboard is a piece of furniture to keep things in.

A dining-room, a study, a bedroom, a bathroom, a bookcase, a wardrobe, a writingdesk, a fridge, a gas-range

8.Read the following proverbs. Find their Russian equivalents and discuss the meanings in group. Make up your own situations

There is no place like home. East or West, home is best.

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9.Insert prepositions or post-verbal adverbs.

1.We have a nice flat … the centre … St. Petersburg. It is … the second floor … a new house. It is a two-room flat … a kitchen. … the kitchen there is a refrigerator to keep food cool … hot weather and a kitchen and a cupboard … plates and dishes.

2.How many multi-storeyed buildings are there … your streets? 3. We have a lot … furniture … our dining-room. 4. Peter has got a nice cottage in the country but … any conveniences. 5. The University is not far … (от) house. Both are … the Neva Embankment. 6. Our TV set is … a special little table … the wardrobe … the right… the window. 7. There is no room (места) … (между) the sofa and the bookcase … the armchair. 8. There are no engineers … my friends. 9. A portrait of Pushkin is hanging … the writing-desk. 10. It is rather dark to write here because there is no lamp … the table. Put that reading-lamp … the table and switch it …. 11. Who is sitting there … the armchair … front … the TV set? – It is a friend … mine.

12.… my opinion this flat is too small … your family though I am fond … it. It is so light and warm. 13. … the right there is a bookcase to keep books …. 14. Are moving … our new flat next Saturday? Then we must start packing our things. Come … here, Peter. Let’s begin … the books. We’ve got lots … them. 15. Why aren’t there any curtains … the windows yet? – I’ve got silk ones, but they’re too good … kitchen-curtains. I’m going to buy something cheaper.

10.Translate into English.

1.У нас ведь новая квартира? – Да, у меня теперь чудесная квартира в десяти минутах ходьбы от метро. Наш дом – в новом микрорайоне. – На каком этаже?

– на третьем. – Большая? – Довольно (rather) большая: гостиная, кабинет, спальня, ванная и маленькая передняя. – Ваша квартира со всеми удобствами?

– Конечно. Горячая и холодная вода, центральная отопление, газ, мусоропровод и электричество. – Есть в доме лифт? – Да. У нас в доме двенадцать этажей.

2.В комнате моей сестры пианино, диван-кровать, круглый стол, стулья и буфет. По-моему, в ней слишком много мебели. В моей комнате меньше мебели, чем в комнате моей сестры.

3.Это самая светлая и большая комната в квартире.

4.На нашей улице три новых многоэтажных дома, в них много хороших и удобных квартир.

5.У моей семьи небольшая, но удобная, хорошо спланированная квартира в центре города. Наш дом на улице Гоголя, а наша квартира на третьем этаже. Моя комната самая маленькая, но очень уютная и светлая. В ней большое окно с красивыми занавесками. Комната очень теплая. В комнате довольно много мебели. Посредине комнаты стоит небольшой круглый стол; вокруг него несколько стульев. Направо от окна – мой письменный стол. Перед столом – кресло. Я очень люблю сидеть в этом кресле, оно мягкое и удобное. На письменном столе – масса вещей: пишущая машинка, календарь, часы, лампа под зеленым абажуром, английские и русские книги, журналы и газеты,

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тетради, ручки, карандаши. Над столом – полка с книгами. Направо от двери – маленький столик с радиолой на нем. Мы очень любим музыку. В одном из углов – диван-кровать. Рядом с диван-кроватью встроенный платяной шкаф. Обои в моей комнате светло-коричневые. На стенах висят два портрета моих родителей и несколько фотографий и акварелей. У нас есть телефон. Он в прихожей.

C. 11. Answer the following questions?

1. What’s your address? Is your flat in a new residential area? Is it large? On what floor is it? Which floor is it better to live on? 2. In what street is your house? Is it far from your Institute? 3. Your flat has all modern conveniences, hasn’t it? What conveniences have you got? What furniture have you got in your living-room? Have you got a wall-unit in it? Is the furniture of your living-room typical of modern flats? 4. How many rooms are there in your flat? You have got a room of your own, haven’t you? 5. Which room is the largest? And which of them is the most comfortable? Will you describe your study? 6. What pieces of furniture have you got in your study? Have you got bookcases or shelves in it? What kind of books are there in your study? 7. Have you got a black-and-white or a colour TV set at home? What model is it? Where is it? Are you fond of watching TV programmes? 8/ Are there any water-colours or prints on the walls of your room? Are there any photos of your relatives there? 9. Have you got a standard-lamp in the study? Where is it? What is the colour of the lamp-shade? Is it convenient to have a standard-lamp near your armchair? 10. Is your kitchen as large as your friend’s? What are shelves and kitchen units for? Where is the gas-stove in your kitchen? 11. Have you got a telephone? In which room is it? Is it convenient to have a telephone at home? 12. Which is the cosiest room in your flat?

12. Discuss with your friend.

1. Your family country house. 2. Buying furniture for a new flat. 3. Moving into a new flat. 4. What is a well-(or badly-) planned flat. 5. A well-furnished room. 6. Speak about the advantages or disadvantages of: a) your present home; b) central heating; c) having a country house; d) having a telephone at home.

13. Read, translate and retell the text.

Mary and Tom is a young married couple. They are looking for a flat. This is quite a problem for them because furnished flats in London are not only difficult to find but they are nearly always very expensive.

Flats are usually advertised in the local paper and in the London evening papers. Mary and Tom are looking under “Furnished Flats to Let”. There are advertisements about several flats in today’s newspaper. But Mary and Tom are looking for a self-contained flat with its own entrance, one bedroom, one livingroom and kitchen and bathroom. Their flat must be in a house (detached, semidetached or terrace) close to a shopping centre and a tube station; besides it

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must not be too far from Tom’s office as fares in London are very expensive, especially for students and people with low-paid jobs.

Here is one of the advertisements they are reading now: “Flat over shop to Let. Fully furn. incl. fridge, cooker, 1 room, kit. and bath. No children or pets. £ 40 pw. 23 Rosewood St.” Mary is going to see that flat today. It is in quite a good neighbourhood, not far from Tom’s office. So it may suit them …

14. Use the correct form of the adjectives given in brackets.

1. This room is … and … than that one. (big, comfortable) 2. Your work is … than that of John. (good) 3. Mary is … student of your group. (bright) 4. Take this knife. It is … than yours. (sharp) 5. Don’t sit down here. I think it is … armchair in our flat. (uncomfortable) 6. George is … than William. He is … in our family. (old) 7. Where is your … brother? (old) 8. it is … book in my collection. (interesting) 9. This street is … and … than that one. (narrow, quiet) 10. Which is … room in your flat? (large) 11. There are … students in group 3 than in group 2. (many) 12. Which is … day of the year? (long) 13. Yours is … dictation, I’m sorry to say. (bad) 14. Which is … way to the University? (near) 15. my tape-recorder is … than yours. (good) 16. Helen is … girl in our group. (noisy) 17. In our house there are … flats than in hers. (few) 18. I am not so … as you are, I am sorry. (quick) 19. July is … and … month of the year. (hot, dry) 20. This book is as … as the one you are reading. (interesting) 21. Is your brother … than you? (old) 22. There is … snow in the garden than in the streets. (much) 23. There is … sugar in this sugar-basin than in that one. (little)

15. Translate into English.

1. В моей квартире меньше удобств, чем в вашей. 2. Квартира моей сестры менее удобна, чем моя. 3. В квартире моего дяди больше комнат, чем здесь. 4. В какой из ваших комнат больше мебели, в кабинете или в столовой? 5. Его рассказы менее интересны, чем романы. 6. Ваш район очень хороший, в нем больше зелени (trees), чем в нашем. 7. В моем саду меньше цветов в этом году, чем обычно. 8. У меня в кабинете меньше мебели, чем в гостиной. 9. На улице меньше снега, чем в саду. 10. У вас больше английских книг, чем у меня. 11. У меня меньше дисков, чем у тебя. 12. Ваши фруктыболее спелые, чем мои.

16. Insert articles where necessary.

This is … classroom. There are ten students in … classroom. One student is standing; the others are sitting. There is one door and four windows in … classroom. There is … table in … classroom. There are … flowers on … table. There are two pictures on … walls. One picture is near … door; the other is near one of … windows. …blackboard is in … middle of one of … walls. There is … large map to … right of … blackboard. It is … map of … world. There are … different countries on it, they are all of … different colours: green and brown, light brown and dark

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