House / flat

Exercise I. Answer the questions making various substations:

1.

• What street do you live in? (she, your parents)

• In Vasnetzov street / in Rokossovsky Avenue.

2.

• What kina of flat have you got?

• It's actually a two-room(ed) flat with all modern conveniences (in a new block of flats, two storey (ed) cottage)

3.

• What floor is your flat on?

• On the ground floor (on the fifth floor).

4.

• How does your house face?

• Weil, it faces south (to the south), so we’ve got a lot of sunshine (little sunshine).

5.

• What does your window face? (look down on) (the lake, the valley).

• It faces the park and we have a lovely (wonderful) view from the windows.

• Have you got a room to yourself, Pate? (a room of your own).

• No, I share it with my younger brother.

• Are you lucky enough to have a single room in the hall of residence Jim?

• No, I have to room together with my fellow-student.

8.

• Do you live in the hail of residence or take a room?

• As a matter of fact I take a room in a 3-room flat (live in digs).

9.

• Do you have to pay much for your room? (a high rent)

• Yes, the rent is very high (the rent is awful, but it can’t be helped). It’s very expensive to live in digs. (No, the room is fairly cheap; the rent is reasonable, actually).

10.

• Is there much furniture in your sitting-room?

• No, only the most necessary pieces. We’ve got a sofa, 2 comfortable armchairs, a table and a book-case.

11.

• Is there anything on the window? (across the window).

• Yes, certainly. There are beautiful silk curtains (nylon, gaily coloured curtains). They make the room very cosy (lovely).

12.

• Have you got a telephone? (a balcony, a chute, a lift, built-in wardrobe (cupboard).

• Certainly, and it’s very convenient, you know.

13.

• What's there against (opposite the piano; to the right of the TV-set; on the left).

• Well, there’s a very comfortable settee (a divan-bed, a sofa).

14.

• Is there anything on the wall, over the sofa?

• There’s a beautiful tapestry (a lovely watercolour, an oil painting).

Exercise II. Make up short dialogues following the models given below.

1.

• Do you live in digs?

• Yes, I take a room in a 3-room flat, actually.

2.

• Do you have to pay much for you room?

• Yes, the rent is very high. It's hard to find good lodgings at a low price nowadays, isn't it?

3.

• I hear you live at your relatives, don't you?

• No, I don’t. I rent a room from my mother's acquaint an.

4.

• What does your window face?

• It faces a public garden.

• Oh, how nice. Green is always pleasant to one's eyes, isn't it?

• On the one hand, it is, but on the other... there's a children’s corner just opposite my window, you know.

5.

• That wall looks quite bare. Why not place the bookcase there?

• Oh, that's a good idea. Let’s try to do it right now.

6.

• Are you living out?

• No, I prefer living in enough to rent a room.

7.

• I hear you are moving, aren’t you?

• Yes? We’ve received a new 3-room flat. I hope you’ll drop in some day? Won’t you?

• Surely I will.

8.

• How do you find my new cupboard?

• It looks beautiful. And it doesn’t seem to take much room, does it?

9.

• Do you like the flat, dear?

• Yes, very much, it’s comfortable and well-planned. And it’s good luck we have a telephone.

• Yes, it’s convenient, indeed.

10.

• Susan hasn’t got much furniture in her room, but she’s got plenty of books. Look, some of them are quite rare.

• Can I have a look at the books?

• Certainly. On these shelves she keeps English classics and in the bookcase opposite you’ll find Russian Novelists of the 19^th century.

11.

• Is David pleased with his lodgings?

• Yes, he managed to find a good room very close to the Institute.

12.

• Where are you living?

• In a hall or residence so far, but I'd like to rent a room, actually.

• I’ve already found one not far from the Institute.