Lesson 3

The Reading Module

Read the text: Why do we need the interior design?

We often dream about a cozy warm home where we could rest after a tiring workday. It is pleasant to go to a workplace where you will be working with pleasure for a whole day. You can spend your holidays in a country house most peacefully. And nothing gets you irritated, neither the bright, blinding light nor the noise keeping you away from sleep. Nothing bugs you, everything is for you.

You are waiting for some changes in your life. Changing of the decor, alternation of the interior are the things surely making your life more harmonious, more like you wish it was.

Everything starts at the point where you realise why you are beginning the repairs, what should be done and how you can manage it with minimum expenses and labor.

Every place has its own history:

You got new premises;

You got bored of the old walls décor;

You're expecting your family to expand;

You want to make it more comfortable for your work and resting;

It is necessary to house more office workers and make the atmosphere more favorable for your productivity;

You decided to get your surrounding surprised.

One can change the interior in many different ways. Beginning with the simplest decor tricks and going as far as doing an entire replanning and rearrangement with complex artistic solutions. The interior decor does not require complicated trimming works. It is rather a fresh tones touch-up upon the decor you have already had. All you have to alter is about your curtains, furniture, floor coating and then you add up some new decor elements.

Any decor alternations would demand your powers, time and knowledge. It is crucial that you should think over every detail of the project. Figure out the volume and space interior composition, find the right stylistic solution, pick up best make-up materials, furniture and equipment. Generally speaking, it is necessary that all the alternatives and combinations of style, color and illumination should be considered and all your wishes correspond to the building norms and standards.

Certainly you could do your repairs all by yourself in your free time and have the interior you thus have obtained all saturated with your energetics. It would feel cozy and comfortable inside-no doubt! But in case you are short of time for replanning it on your own you are going to have to hire a repair brigade that would handle the make-up works. You can make your dreams real with the help of a designer or it can just be a piece of practical advice that is going to do! If you need to make sure that the direction of your interior's style solution has been chosen properly you can just view it before the real repair works have begun! The photorealistic visualization of an object or creating a movie is what our company recommends for the cases like that. This offer we make is definitely something to make your place feel a completely different setting!

I. Reading exercises:

Exercise1. Read and memorize using the dictionary:

a cozy home, irritated, bug; décor, alternation of the interior, harmonious, new premises, get bored, walls décor, touch-up, curtains, furniture, floor coating, trimming works, do repairs, short of time for, handle the make-up works, photorealistic visualization

Exercise 2. Answer the questions:

1. What makes your life more harmonious?

2. Why are you beginning the repairs?

3. How can you change the interior?

4. What do the décor alternations demand?

Exercise 3. Match the left part with the right:

1. Any décor alternations	1. in your free time.
2. You could do repairs all by yourself	2. would demand your powers, time and knowledge.
3. It is crucial that	3. you should think over every detail of the project.
4. One can change the interior	4. in many different ways.

Exercise 4. Open brackets using the right words:

(Change/Changing) of the decor, alternation of the interior (are/is) the things surely (makes/making) your life more harmonious, more like you wish it (was/is).

The Speaking Module

II. Speaking exercises:

Exercise 1. Describe cozy home; irritated; harmonious; walls décor; floor coating; trimming works; short of time; photorealistic visualization using the suggested words and expressions as in the example:

cozy home dream; warm; rest; tiring workday; it is pleasant; pleasure example: We often dream about a cozy warm home where we could rest after a tiring workday. It is pleasant to go to a workplace where you will be working with pleasure for a whole day.

irritated get irritated; bright light; noise; keep away from sleep; bug; nothing; everything

harmonious make; life; alternation; interior; change the décor; like; wish; wait; changes

floor coating alter; curtains; furniture; add up; décor elements

trimming works interior décor; require; complicated work; fresh tones touch-up; building norms; standards

short of time for replanning; to hire a repair brigade; handle; make-up works; make one’s dreams real; practical advice

photorealistic visualization object; creating a movie; company; recommend, different setting

Exercise 2. Ask questions to the given answers:

1. Question: ____________________________________ ?

Answer: We often dream about a cozy home.

2. Question: ____________________________________ ?

Answer: You are waiting for some changes in your life.

3. Question: ____________________________________ ?

Answer: One can change the interior in many different ways.

4. Question: ____________________________________ ?

Answer: The interior décor does not require complicated trimming works.

The Writing Module

III. Writing exercises:

Exercise 1. Complete the sentences with the suggested words: going; replanning; doing; beginning:

_____ with the simplest decor tricks and _____ as far as _____ an entire _____ and rearrangement with complex artistic solutions.

Exercise 2. Fill in the table with words and expressions from the text:

All you have to alter is	What?	and then you can add up some new décor elements.
It would feel	How?	inside.
It is necessary	What?	should be considered.
In case	What case?	you are going to have to hire a repair brigade.

Exercise 3. Compose a story on one of the topics (up to 100 words):

“Your dream about a cozy home”

“What should be done to begin the repairs?”

“What do you have to alter to do repairs?”