Julia: Furnished or unfurnished?
Sam: Unfurnished.
Julia: We have a lovely flat near here. It has two bedrooms, a living room, a kitchen and a bathroom.
Sam: Does the flat have a garden?
Julia: Yes, it does.
Sam: Does it have central heating?
Julia: Yes, it does.
Sam: I’d like to see it. Can I do it today?
Julia: Yes, please. I can show you around.
6. Make up a dialogue putting the sentences in the right order.
How many rooms would you like to have?
Does it have central heating, electricity, natural gas and water?
Can I help you?
Furnished or unfurnished?
Yes, please. I’d like to rent a house.
Yes, it does.
I’d like two rooms, a kitchen, a bathroom and a toilet.
We have a lovely house with a garden and a garage.
Furnished.
Can you show me around? How much is the rent?
7. Complete the sentences with the words from the Active Vocabulary.
1. Does this house have...................................................................?
2. I would like to...........................................................................
3. He doesn’t like to live...................................................................
4. Where does she..........................................................................?
5. He thinks that.............................................................................
6. Could you.................................................................................?
7. My friends can’t..........................................................................
8. Do their children.........................................................................?
9. Why do they..............................................................................?
10. We don’t want to........................................................................
7. Read this text.
Life on a houseboat.
Truman Howel is an architect. He lives and works on a houseboat on the Mississippi river in the USA. He likes to show his friends around the houseboat.
He has many reasons to prefer this lifestyle. He enjoys the life on a houseboat because he has the freedom to move his house where he wants. Now he locates the houseboat near St Paul, in front of the bridge. He enjoys natural environment around his house. He can see many trees and animals. He can sometimes go fishing.
The houseboat has electrical power. It has natural gas that comes to the dock. It has the water from the public utility.
Truman has a bedroom, a small living room and a small office with a table and office equipment.
Truman often gets to the downtown, where he can go shopping or relax in a cafй or in the restaurant.
Are the sentences true or false?
Верны или не верны данные предложения?
1. Truman lives on the houseboat with his friends.
2. He enjoys this lifestyle.
3. He has natural environment.
4. The houseboat has central heating.
5. Truman has an office on the houseboat.
6. Truman works in the downtown.
Lesson 6. Spare time
LEAD-IN
1. Answer the questions about yourself.
1. Where do you work?
2. What do you like to do after work?
3. Do you like to go skiing / fishing?
4. What do you do at the weekend?
5. What do your children do at the weekend?
6. Do you like to cook at the weekend?
7. With whom do you like to relax?
8. Do you often go shopping at the weekend?
9. Do you study at the weekend?
10. Do you like to watch TV or listen to music in the evening?
2. Say what you like to do at the weekend and what you don’t like.
To study English, to cook, to do homework with children, to play football with friends, to help about the house, to do the cleaning, to watch TV, to go shopping, to meet friends, to read newspapers, to see sights, to listen to music, to enjoy nature, to go downtown.
3. Say what would you like to do.
At the weekend I would like to..............................................................................
In summer I would like to....................................................................................
In winter I would like to.......................................................................................
In the evening I’d like to.......................................................................................
At the weekend my children would like to..................................................................
In the morning my husband / wife would like to............................................................
On holidays my family would like to........................................................................
4. Write down 10 sentences using the words in the Word Box.
Stays at home, doesn’t go fishing, would like to rent a furnished house, have freedom, relaxing environment, don’t contact people, has a cottage, prefers to live downtown, likes animals, don’t have a loft.
5. Put the sentences in the logical order to make a story.
It is expensive but the flat is lovely.
He rents a furnished flat in the town centre.
At the weekend they would like to go to a small town in the north.
Deny is a student.
He has many friends and at the weekend he always meets them.
Deny has a car and they can travel to various places.
He studies and works very much, but likes to relax too.