Agree or disagree with the following statements. Explain your point of view.

1. House is essential for people’s life.

2. Home is where the heart is.

3. A house gives a sense of stability and security.

4. It is rather difficult to keep to one’s native traditions in the modern city.

5. A house can say much about its inhabitants.

6. Living under one roof people become closer and begin to understand each other better.

7. For every person his house is a small Universe, a sacred place where love, friendship, mutual understanding and mutual respect reign.

5.2.* Read the quotations below. Choose any quotation and comment on it:

1. «The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.» (Confucius)

2. «A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.» (Benjamin Franklin)

3. «Nothing can bring a real sense of security into the home except true love.» (Billy Graham)

4. «He is the happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.» (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)

5. «Go to foreign countries and you will get to know the good things one possesses at home.» (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)

6. «Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.» (Robert Frost)

7. «Home is where one starts from.» (T. S. Eliot)

Comment on the proverbs.

1. My home is my castle.

2. East or west, home is best.

3. Dry bread at home is better than roast meat abroad and many others.

5.4. Tell about the dwelling of your dream using all information you have got. You may use these phrases:

1. I’d like to tell you about …

2. I imagine my house to be …

3. There are lots of … around my house.

4. Our house looks …

5. There we spend …

Supplementary tasks:

Read several interesting facts about houses. Transalte into Russian.

 The oldest house in the world was discovered at Mezhirich near Kiev in the Ukraine in 1965 by a farmer. It is approximately from 10,000 ВС and it is made of mammoth bones.

• The Smallest House in Great Britain can be found on the Quay, in Conwy, Wales. Its dimensions are 3.05 metres x 1.8 metres.

• Windsor Castle is the largest inhabited castle in the world and, dating back to the time of William the Conqueror, is the oldest in continuous occupation. Windsor Castle is one of the principal official residences of the British monarch.

2. Translate into Russian:

 

What is Home?

(After Ernestine Schumann-Heink)

A roof to keep out the rain. Four walls to keep out the wind. Floors to keep out the cold.

Yes, but home is more than that. It is the laugh of the baby, the song

of the mother, the strength of the father. Warmth of loving hearts, light from happy eyes, kindness, loyalty, comradeship.

Home is the first school and the first church for young ones, where they learn what is right, what is good and what is kind. Where they go for comfort when they are hurt or sick.

Where joy is shared and sorrow eased. Where fathers and mothers are respected and loved. Where children are wanted. Where the simplest food is good enough for kings because it is earned. Where money is not so important as loving kindness. Where the tea-kettle sings from happiness.

That is home. God bless it.

3. Read and translate. State the suffixes:

A. To symbolize, to simplify, meanness, goodness, mobilization, translator, compressor, swimmer, rainy, wooden, movable, freedom, importance, friendship, cruelty, manhood, careless, readable, foolish, thankful, possible, dependent, to blacken, badly, to falsify.

B. If the birds are capable of happiness in a cage, such happiness or contentment is but a poor pale emotion compared with a wild exuberant gladness they have in freedom.

 

3.8. Translate the following words into Russian:

Useful, useless, usefully, uselessly, usefulness, uselessness, careful, careless, carefully, carelessly, carefulness, carelessness.

 

Text 2.  living in a flat

I. Warm-up activities

1.1. Pronounce the words properly and state the part of speech:

Facilities, to include, picturesque ,heating, electricity, chute, rubbish, wardrobe, wall-unit, opposite, colour, to hang, spacious , some, to rest, where, cosy , beige, comfortable, to fortunate, enjoyable.

1.2. Match the columns:

1. all modern facilities	1. вешать
2. rubbish chute	2. уютный
3. cosy	3. водопроводная вода
4. to hang	4. все современные удобства
5.to gather	5. собираться
6.to change round	6. мусоропровод
7.running water	7. менять местами (мебель и т. п.)
8.opposite	8. 12-этажный
9. well-equipped	9. хорошо оборудованный
10. fortunate	10. противоположный
11. dishwasher	11. микроволновая печь
12. microwave oven	12. посудомоечная машина
13. view of	13. хорошо спланированный
14. 12-storeyed	14. удачный, везучий
15.block of flats	15. вид на
16. well-planned	16. подоконник
17. to keep a pet	17. обеденный стол и стулья
18. сonvenient	18. удобный, подходящий
19. window-sill	19. многоквартирный дом
20. dining group	20. держать домашнее животное

 

3.2. Match the words with their definitions:

1. picturesque	1.  giving a feeling of comfort, warmth, and relaxation
2. infrastructure	2. a place, amenity, or piece of equipment provided for a particular purpose
3. facilities	3. the basic physical and organizational structures and facilities (e.g. buildings, roads, power supplies) needed for the operation of a society
4. cosy	4. visually attractive, especially in a quaint or charming way
5 . to include	5. Able to be used for a practical purpose or in several ways
6 . wardrobe	6. a machine for washing dishes automatically.
7. dishwasher	7. a large, tall cupboard in which clothes may be hung or stored
8.  fortunate	8. fashionable, elegant
9. stylish	9. favoured by or involving good luck; lucky
10. useful	10. comprise or contain as part of a whole

 

II. Reading

Our family lives in a new 12-storeyed block of flats. It’s situated in a very picturesque place with well-developed infrastructure.

Our flat is on the ninth floor. It is very comfortable and well-planned. We have all modern facilities including central heating, electricity, gas, cold and hot running water, telephone , lift and rubbish chute. There are three rooms, a kitchen, a bathroom, and a hall in our flat. There is also a balcony where we can enjoy a lovely view of the river.

The largest room is the living room . It has many useful functions. For example, we can watch TV there or have family dinners. At other times we welcome guests there and they can even stay overnight. We have a large sofa in the living-room, which can be transformed into a bed. Opposite the window there is a wall unit with lots of books, a TV-set, and a stereo system. There are two comfortable armchairs and a small coffee table in the right-hand corner. There is also an electric fire in our living room. We like the living room best of all, so in the evenings we gather there to have tea, watch TV, talk, and rest.

My parents’ bedroom is rather nice. It is a room with a bed, two bedside tables, two lamps and a wardrobe. There is also a small TV-set on the wall. The wallpapers in this room are light brown and there is a nice painting on the wall. My mother is fond of flowers which she keeps on the window-sill.

My room is the smallest one, but it is very cosy and light. There is a sofa, a wardrobe, a computer table with my laptop on it , an armchair, and several bookshelves here. There is a thick carpet on the floor. The wallpapers in my room are beige. There are some big posters with my favourite musical bands on the wall. I like my room very much, but from time to time I change it round. I quite often move the sofa and change the posters on the wall.

Our kitchen is big and light and is well-equipped. There is a stylish dining group there. We have got a lot of home appliances in the kitchen such as a fridge, a microwave oven, a dishwasher, a coffeemaker and a toaster.

We don’t keep any pets in the flat, but there is a large aquarium in the hall where we have a lot of exotic and colourful fish. I like my flat very much. I think it is a good place to live in. We are fortunate that we have very nice neighbours surrounding us so this makes living in a flat very easy and enjoyable.

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