10-14 = It sounds like a dream home!
15-19 = Great! All you need now is a Jacuzzi!
9-14 = Well, at least houseguests wont want to stay too long!
0-8 = Time to look for a better place to live!
13. Think and say.
There are four floors in a block of flats. Two women and two men live in the flats; they are an architect, an artist, a doctor and a photographer. The architect lives on the ground floor. The photographer and the doctor are women. Philip is not an artist. Jane lives on the first floor. Susan is not a doctor, she lives under Dan.
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14. Can you answer the following questions?
1) Is it hard to manage a house?
2) Who is the hardest-working member of the household?
3) What do the women do about the house?
4) What do the men do about the house?
15. Look through the text given below, and try to find English equivalents for the following words and phrases.
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REMEMBER! (. 4)
| : birth () + day () = birthday( ) bed () + room () = bedroom () |
16. Read and translate the text.
It is no easy matter to manage a house. It is especially hard when one works too. Thats why a second day off is of great help to housewives. They may do the housecleaning on Saturday and Sunday may be their day of rest.
The Browns have a real housecleaning on Saturday. Here are a few words about the way they fix up their flat.
Ann and her mother are up early in the morning. To begin with, they change the bedclothes, make the beds, collect the dirty linen and put it into the basket for dirty linen. After that they open the windows to let in the fresh air and start tidying up the rooms. They dust and polish the furniture, mop the floor, clean the carpets with a vacuum-cleaner, shake out the doormate and bed rugs in the yard and arrange them on the floor. Then Ann and her mother brush the clothes, polish the shoes and get down to tidy up the kitchen. While Mrs. Brown scrubs the gas-range and cleans the kitchen table, Ann washes the sink and the bath-tub with cleansing powders. Last of all they sweep the floor with a broom and wash it. Now that everything looks shining and spotless Ann and her mother feel quite happy about it.
Ann is always ready to help her mother to do the cleaning or a turn-out. As far as Anns father and brother are concerned, they dont do much about the house. Anns brother, Jack, is too small to help, he is only four. Small as he is, he never throws his toys around the room, but puts them away himself. He never comes home in torn clothes and thus saves his mother the trouble of mending them.
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Anns fathers only household duties are to seal up the windows to keep out the cold and fix electrical appliances (the vacuum cleaner, the washing-machine, the iron) when they go wrong.
17. Choose the words or word combinations you can correctly use in these sentences.
A real housecleaning, to fix, to make, to shake out, to scrub, cleansing powders, household chores, to run, to mop, a broom, to wax, neat and tidy, to brush, to polish, to change.
1) They say she is a good housewife and the house nicely.
2) In the kitchen we the sink and the gas-range with .
3) The are shared equally in Peters family.
4) Aunt Rose the floor with every day and it once a month.
5) They have every Saturday and the carpets and rugs in the yard.
6) After a turn - out the room looked .
7) Mr. Smith is very experienced in electrical appliances.
8) We usually the bedclothes every week.
9) Lena often oversleep in the morning and has no time left to the bed.
10) My little brother the clothes and the shoes himself.
18. Supply the missing prepositions and adverbs where necessary.
1) There are always a lot of things to do when you decide to fix the flat.
2) Its necessary to beat the carpets and rugs, polish the furniture to say nothing of sweeping the floor.
3) If you want to tidy the kitchen you should start with scrubbing the gas-range.
4) Windows are sealed in autumn to keep the cold.
5) To turn a flat is no easy matter, especially when theres no one to give a helping hand.
6) Housecleaning may be done quickly and easily if all the members of the family attend the duties earnest.
7) Shes such a busybody! When she comes home, she cleans the flat top bottom every day.
8) The trouble housework is that whatever you do seems to lead another job to do or a mess to clear!
9) I have a sort feeling now that she has arranged that party to impress friends her domestic virtues.
10) Husbands help their wives the house their own way.
19. Answer the following questions.
1) Is it easy to manage a house?
2) When do the Browns usually have a real housecleaning?
3) What do Ann and her mother do in the morning?
4) What do they clean the carpets with?
5) Where do the beat out the rugs and the doormat?
6) What do they do in the kitchen?
7) What do they wash the sink and the bath-tub with?
8) What are Mr Browns duties?
9) What electrical appliances do the Browns enjoy in the household?
10) When is the house run nicely?
20. Split up into the groups of five and retell this text playing your roles.
1) when the Browns have a real housecleaning and what they begin with;
2) what Anna and Mrs Brown do in the kitchen and in the bathroom;
3) how Jack participates in the housecleaning;
4) what Mr Brown do about the house.
21. Read the conversation between John and Mary, who are husband and
wife, and their friend Helen. Then talk over the following questions with your
classmate.
1) What is the conversation about?
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2) Why does the housework keep Mary busy?
3) What do the children do about the house?
4) Is John of great help?
5) What labour-saving devices are used in their family?
Housekeeping
Helen: How do you manage to do all the work by yourself, Mary, with a family of four?
Mary: Well, the housework keeps me busy, you know. As soon as one job is finished there is another waiting to be done. The children are too small to help.
John: Don't forget to say that I do my share. I'm always willing to lend a hand.
Helen: Oh, John, I haven't seen you doing much housework.
John: Oh, haven't you? Who helps with the washing up? Who mends anything that gets broken? And when the electric lights go out who changes the bulbs and mends the fuses? Yesterday, for example, the iron went wrong and I'd been fixing it for half an hour before Mary could use it again.
Mary: Yes, he's very helpful, Helen. Besides, he helps with the children.
John: And I must admit that housekeeping is much easier nowadays than it used to be. Times have changed. Now we don't think what a blessing electricity is. We soon become accustomed to new things and take them for granted. Nobody thinks of electricity as a luxury now. Yesterday's luxury is today's necessity.
Mary: I don't know what I should do without my vacuum-cleaner, washing-machine or refrigerator to say nothing of radio, television and the telephone.
Helen: Right. All these things are very helpful indeed.
22. Work in pairs. Discuss with your partner the problem of household chores. Express your feelings on this problem. Speak on the following:
1) where you live;
2) what you begin the housecleaning with;
3) what is to be done in the flat (house);
4) how you participate in housecleaning;
5) what other members of the family do during the housecleaning.
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| DOUBT / DISBELIEF | SURPRISE |
| v I'm not sure of it. v I doubt it. v It all depends. ( ) v You never can tell. ( ) v It's hard to belive. v It's hard to say. | v You don't say so! ( !) v I am surprised! v I am not surpeised! v It is not surprising. v No wonder. ( ) |
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23. Speak on the housecleaning in your flat. Begin some of your sentences with:
To begin with
I must admit
I think
I consider
On the one hand
On the other hand
From the point of view
We must agree
PRESENT CONTINUOUS
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Is + V ing
Are
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| I am cleaning a room. | I am not cleaning a room | Am I cleaning a room? |
 He
She is cleaning
(It)
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She isn't cleaning
(It)
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Isshe cleaning?
(it)
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You are cleaning
They
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You aren'tcleaning
They
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Areyou cleaning?
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1) , .
Where is she? - She is reading a book now.
Now I am reading the book "War and Peace".
2) , .
He is taking his examination on Friday.
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Now ,
At the moment
, Continuous
| like love hate want need prefer know realize suppose mean understand believe remember belong contain consist depend seem I am hungry now. I want something to eat. |
24. Rewrite each sentence into positive or negative sentence, or a question according to the example.
Example: She is watching TV now. (question) Is she watchig TV now?
1) He's writing a letter. (question).
2) We are not tidying up the flat now. (positive).
3) Is your father fixing electrical appliances? (negative)
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4) My mother is washing the linen now. (question)
5) Are they sealing up the windows? (positive)
6) He is cooking at the moment. (question)
7) The man is cleaning the carpet with a vacuum cleaner. (negative)
8) Is he beating out the rugs? (positive)
9) We are not washing the table with cleansing powders. (question)
10) She is sweeping the floor in the kitchen. (negative)
25. Put the verbs into the Present Simple or Present Continuous.
1) Every year he (spend) his holidays in France.
2) Run downstairs. Your uncle (wait) for you there.
3) What you (see) in the corner over there?
4) Go away! I (prepare) a dangerous experiment.
5) George (come) to see us next week.
6) John (hate) to do the housecleaning.
7) I (not need) an umbrella, it (not rain) now.
8) We (seal up) the windows tomorrow in the morning.
9) What this sentence (mean)?
10) I (not understand) what you (want) to say.
26. Look at the series of pictures. Housecleaning is no easy
matter, is it? Make up a story. Use Present Continuous.
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UNIT 7
LIFESTYLE RELATED PROBLEMS:
FOOD AND TOBACCO
1. Almost half of all premature deaths in the United States and other developed countries are caused by lifestyle. What are they?
2. 
Look at the picture and say what you think about these people. Think and make up a story about them.
WE ARE WHAT WE EAT
3. Study new words and expressions.
Additives -
Average -
Cauliflower -
Delicious -
Diabetes -
Doberman sized -
Dramatically -
| Food additives - Gym - Heart disease - Lettuce - Liquid - Margarine - Nightmare - Nourishment -, Obese - Overweight- Pasta- Protein- Rate - Record-breaker - Skimmed milk - Slimming treatment - Survey - To be healthy - To be in - | To catch up - To complain - To concentrate on - - To concern - To do harm - To emphasize - , To indicate the danger of smth - - To influence - To lose the weight - To make an effort - To munch - To put smb on a diet - - To relax - Vegetarian, veggie - Violent - Waist- |
REMEMBER! (. 4)
| : -en, -ate, ise (ize). dark () + en =darken () origin () + ate= originate () modern () + ize = modernize () |
4. Complete the chart with words or phrases related to food from the vocabulary above.
| Food | Health | Treatment | Other words |
5. Read and translate the text and say what problem is discussed in it.
Do we live to eat?
How much food do you think you will eat by the time you are seventy nine?
The average Frenchwoman, for example, will eat:
| 25 cows 40 sheep 35 pigs 1,200 chickens 2.07 tonnes of fish 5.05 tonnes of potatoes 30,000 litres of milk 13,000 eggs 50,000 loaves of bread | 8 kg of dirt 9,000 litres of orange juice 6000 litres of mineral water 1.37 tonnes of apples 768 kg of oranges 430 bags of carrots 720 kg of tomatoes 1,300 lettuces |
| Hundreds of packets of coffee, sugar, spaghetti, etc. |
Delicious, isnt it? How many cows and pigs have you swallowed already?
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Scientists say that we eat about half-a-ton of food a year not counting drink!
Some people eat even more.
The Land of the fattest.
According to WHO (World Health Organization), Americans are the fattest people in the world. 55% of women and 63% of men over 25 are overweight or obese. (Doctors say that you are obese if you weigh at least 30% above ideal body weight.)
Compared to Europeans, Americans eat all the time, writes Joanna Coles, a British correspondent for The Guardian. At the hairdressers, in their cars, during college lectures, while waiting in hospital and at the cinema, where they arrive clutching monster buckets of pop-corn, Doberman sized hot-dogs and containers(!) of diet Pepsi.
