Ex. 16. Read the text, compare Jane’s kitchen with yours and speak about your favourite place in the flat.
Jane’s Favourite Room
My favourite room is our kitchen. Perhaps the kitchen is the most important room in many houses, but it is particularly so in our house because it’s not only where we cook and eat but it’s also the main meeting place for family and friends. I have so many happy memories of times we spent there: special occasions like making Christmas dinner; comforting cups of tea in the middle of the night in times of trouble; ordinary daily events such as making breakfast on dark, cold winter mornings for cross, sleepy children before sending them off to school, then sitting down to read a newspaper with a hot cup of coffee. Whenever we have a party, it always ends up with people gathering with their drinks to the kitchen and it becomes the fullest and noisiest room in the house.
So what does this special room look like? It’s quite big, but not huge. It’s big enough to have a good-sized rectangular table in the centre. There’s a large window above the sink, which looks out onto two apple trees in the garden. The cooker is at one end; at the other end is a wall with a large notice-board, which tells the story of our lives, past, present and future, in words and pictures: a school photo of Megan and Kate, a postcard from Aunt Nancy in Australia, the menu from a Chinese restaurant, a wedding invitation for next Saturday. All our world is there for everyone to read!
The front door is seldom used in our house, only by strangers. All our friends use the back door, which means they come straight into the kitchen and join in whatever is happening there. The kettle goes on immediately and then we all sit round the table, drinking tea and chatting about everything. Without doubt some of the happiest times of my life have been spent in our kitchen.
Ex. 17 . Describe the room, compare it with the room of your own.
easel [ˈi:zl] – мольберт; camera – фотоаппарат; brush – кисточка; half-eaten apple – недоеденное яблоко.
Ex. 18. Discussion tasks
1. How do you understand the saying My home is my castle? Can you say it about the place you live at? Why or why not?
2. Describe the house/flat of your dream.
3. Compare living on your own and sharing a flat with your parents.
4. Compare living on your own and sharing a flat with your friends.
5. What can you say for and against living in the hostel?
6. What can you say for and against living in the hotel?
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Ex. 19. Conversation tasks
1. Try to persuade your groupmate who wants to live in the hostel that he/she should rent a flat.
2. Your groupmate wants to rent a flat, discuss the following advertisement together to decide whether it suits him/her or not.
A furnished flat to let. Two rooms, a kitchen and a bathroom. First floor. A balcony, no telephone. No children or pets. 23 Kirov St.
3. Talk to the flat owner to find out the details about the flat you want to rent.
4. You want to sell a house or a flat. Try to persuade the customer to buy it showing him/her some pictures.
5. Look at the picture of the house or a flat and say whether you like it or not and why.
6. Look at the picture of a house or a flat and give compliments to its owner.
7. Show the picture of your room and discuss with your friend the ways to change it.
8. You are both invited to a housewarming party, discuss what present you should choose.
Ex. 2 0 . Listen to the dialogue, practise the reading and learn it.
Brutus Cray – the Greatest
Brutus Cray: ˈI'm the ˎgreatest!
Reporter: You ˋwere the greatest, ˏBrutus... but you're ˈten ˈyears ˋolder than ˈJoe ˎFreezer.
Brutus Cray: ˈJoe ˎFreezer! I'm ˈnot aˈfraid of ˈJoe ˎFreezer!
Reporter: ˏReally?
Brutus Cray: ˎListen! I've ˈbeaten him ˏtwice, and I'm ˈgoing to ˈbeat him aˎgain.
Reporter: ˈAre you ˏsure?
Brutus Cray: ˊSure? Of ˈcourse I'm ˎsure.
Reporter: ˈSome ˈpeople →say he's ˎbetter than you.
Brutus Cray: ˈNow, ˎlisten! I've ˈbeaten ˈall the ˈbest ˏboxers, and ˈJoe ˈFreezer's ˈone of the ˎworst!
Reporter: ˏYes, but he's ˈbetter than he ˇwas.
Brutus Cray: ˎListen! I'm ˏstronger, ˏfaster, ˏfitter and ˈmore inˎtelligent than him!
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Reporter: ˏYes, but he ˈKˈO'ed ˈLen ˎKorton ˈtwo ˎmonths ago.
Brutus Cray: ˈLen →Korton. ˈI've ˈKˈO'ed him ˈthree ˎtimes!
Reporter: ˈO.ˎK., ˈO.ˎK., ˎBrutus. ˈAre you ˈgoing to reˏtire ˈafter this ˏfight?
Brutus Cray: Reˏtire? ˎNo. I've been the ˈchampion for ˈten ˎyears ... and I'm ˈgoing to ˎstay the champion for aˎnother ten.
Reporter: ˈJoe ˋFreezer .doesn't .think ˏso!
Brutus Cray: ˋJoe ˏFreezer? ˈJoe ˈFreezer's the ˈugliest ˈman in the ˎworld... ˈafter toˈnight he's ˈgoing to ˈneed a ˈnew ˎface!
TOPIC 2 . DAILY PROGRAMME
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