Read the text “Home is where the heart is”.

 

    Everyone likes dreaming. Dream is a hope for better things. It helps us to overcome the difficulties of our daily routine. A dream depends on people, on their education, nationality, character and other things. People imagine they have a lot of money, own family, an expensive car. Other people imagine themselves to be presidents of different countries or whole planets, etc.

I'd like to tell you about the house of my dream. I'd like to have my own house on the bank of a beautiful river with crystal water, surrounded by high mountains, covered with green forest of evergreen trees.

    I would live there with my wife and two children. I imagine my house to be a 2 storeyed building. Near the front side it has a facade with columns and steps up to the front door. There are also two balconies and a terrace in my house. The windows are in the shape of arches. Through them you can see a wonderful landscape. There are lots of fir trees and flowers around the house. And you can walk in the shade of these trees listening to the birds singing.

    As you come through the front door, you find yourself in a large hall with an open fireplace. One of the doors leads to the living room. This room faces the south, so it's very sunny and has a lovely view of the whole valley. In the middle of this room there's a thick Persian carpet.

   There are few units of furniture in this room. On the left there's a leather sofa and small table nearby, on the right you can see home cinema and satellite receiver. There are two armchairs and a wardrobe in the corner of this room. In the living room we spend our evenings chatting with each other, children play with a kitten.

Then a wide staircase takes you to the first floor where there are four bedrooms. My children's rooms are really vast. The wallpapers are very colourful in bright shapes. Also there are lots of toys to play with.

In the basement there is a big garage for our cars. We have got two cars: one for me and one for my wife.

Behind the house there is a swimming bath, covered with glass. There are some plastic armchairs around the swimming bath. Our house looks peaceful and calm and the calmest room is my study. Next door to the study there is our library. It is a huge room with two bookcases. Someone might think that it is an antagonism, because everything we want to read we can receive via Internet, but I like real books, to handle them in my hands, to read them page by page. As for my children, they prefer associating with their friends.

We have many different electrical appliances in our house. They make our life more comfortable. Also we have some robots to help us. They look after the house, grow vegetables in our garden and involved in cooking. So, we enjoy having greens and fresh vegetables on our dinner table during long winters. Our house is a beautiful place at any time of the year. In winter it's warm and cosy, in summer there is so much to do outside.

Answer the questions to the text.

1. Why do people like dreaming?
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2. Where would I like to have my own house?
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3. How many rooms and floors are there in my house?
 ___________________________________________________________________. 4. What can you see in my living room?

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5. What do we do in the living room?

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6. What can you see in the children's rooms?
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7. What is there in the basement?
 ___________________________________________________________________.

8. What is there behind the house?                  

___________________________________________________________________.

9. How many bookcases are there in our library?

___________________________________________________________________.

10. What makes our life more comfortable?

___________________________________________________________________.              

Complete the sentences.

 

1. A dream helps ____________________________________________________.

2. People imagine ___________________________________________________.

3. I'd like to have my own house ________________________________________.

4. Near the front side _________________________________________________.

5. This room faces the south ___________________________________________.

6. The wallpapers are _________________________________________________.

7. In the basement __________________________________________________.

8. Our house looks ___________________________________________________.

9. Robots look after the house __________________________________________.

10. Our house is ____________________________________________________.

Complete the sentences.

 

Appliances, living room, a 2 storeyed- building, a swimming bath,  a terrace,

people, furniture, beautiful, dreaming, colourful

 

1. Everyone likes dreaming .  

2. A dream depends on_______________, on their education, nationality, character  

and other things.

3. I imagine my house to be _____________________________________.

4. There are also two balconies and _____________________ in my house.

5. One of the doors leads to the __________________________________.

6. There are few units of _______________________________in this room.

7. The wallpapers are very __________________________ in bright shapes.

8. Behind the house there is ______________________, covered with glass.

9. We have many different electrical ____________________ in our house.

10. Our house is a ________________________ place at any time of the year.

 

Focus on Grammar

8. Fill in the verb is or are.

1. There is a table in the room.
2. ________ there a dog in the garden?
3. There __________ many books here.
4. __________ there two chairs in the room?
5. There ________ no fireplace in the house, it is cold in winter.

6. In front of the house there ___________ a beautiful garden.

7. There _________ modern conveniences in my flat.

8. There _________ a suite of modern furniture with a wardrobe and a bookcase.

9. There _________ a thick carpet in the middle of the room.

10. ___________ there any sweets in your bag?      

 

Make up sentences.

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