1. Our apartment has all modern conveniences: central heating, running cold and hot water, electricity, telephone and Internet, gas and central air-condition.
2. It is a three-bedroom apartment on the ninth floor of the nine-stored building.
3. The most popular and favorite place with all of us is the kitchen where we can have a chat about our problems and life.
4. Our family lives in a new apartment in one of the largest newly built residential areas.
5. The rooms in our apartment are light, though not very large. But the windows face the park with the waterfront and this view is really amazing.
6. Our living-room is the largest room in our apartment. We like to receive our guests in this room.
7. Our bedrooms are smaller than a living-room.
8. It consists of a living-room, three bedrooms, two bathrooms, a kitchen, a cabinet and two balconies.
9.We like our apartment very much.
10. To begin with, I live in the City, it’s one of the largest and oldest cities of Europe.
Speak on one of the following topics.
1. Your flat.
2. Your room.
3. Prove that there is no place like home.
CONVERSATION PRACTICE
Read and translate the dialogue.
Renting a Flat
Roger: Hello.
Ann: Hello Roger? This is Ann.
Roger: Oh hi, Ann. How have you been? And how’s your new apartment working out?
Ann: Well, that’s what I’m calling about. You see, I’ve decided to look for a new place.
Roger: Oh, what’s the problem with your place now? I thought you liked the apartment.
Ann: Oh, I do, but it’s a little far from campus, and the commute (ездить каждый день на значительное расстояние) is just killing me. Do you think you could help? I thought you might know more about the housing situation near the academy.
Roger: Okay, what’s your budget like? I mean how much do you want to spend on rent?
Ann: Uh, somewhere under $200 a month, including utilities, if I could. Oh, and I’d prefer to rent a furnished apartment.
Roger: Hmm. And anything else?
Ann: Yeah, I need a parking space.
Roger: Well, I know there’s an apartment complex around the corner that seems to have a few vacancies. I’ll drop by there on my way to class today.
Ann: Hey, thanks a lot.
Roger: No problem.
2. Make up a dialogue with your partner about the place he/she lives in.
WRITING PRACTICE
1. Write a letter to your friend abroad telling him/her of your home (your grandparents’ house, the place where you stayed in summer).
2. Write an essay on the topic “ Home, Sweet Home ”.
LESSON 3
LEISURE-TIME ACTIVITIES
| Grammar practice: | 1. Noun. Word-building: the suffixes of nouns. Plurals of nouns 2. Possessive case 3. Demonstrative pronouns this/that,,these/those 4. Prepositions of time |
| Reading and translation practice: | 1. My Day Off 2. Dialogue: Leisure Time |
| Conversation practice: Writing practice: | 1. Hobbies and Leisure Time Activities 1. A letter to a friend abroad. 2. Essay |
GRAMMAR PRACTICE
Form nouns with the given suffixes. Translate them into Russian.
| -er -or -ment -ance (-ence) -tion | to buy, to sell, to work, to write, to travel, to found, to make to direct, to invent, to translate, to visit to agree, to develop, to pay, to govern, to achieve, to punish, to equip, to move to depend, to correspond, to guide, to attend, to differ to emigrate, to liberate, to radiate, to examine, to prepare, to combine, to illustrate, to separate. |
Translate the sentences. Pay attention to the underlined words.
1. She finds great enjoyment in music. 2. After a long discussion the
delegations came to an agreement. 3. I haven’t enough money today to make the payments. 4. A writer of plays is called a dramatist. 5. A journalist’s profession is called journalism. 6. The laser measurement of distances has become a new method in the exploration of the Earth-Moon system. 7. Lomonosov was not only a talented scientist, but a materialist philosopher as well. 8. K.Tsiolkovsky was a practical inventor who made his own laboratory equipment.
Write the words in
a) plural form:
a house, a mouse, a potato, a piano, a dish, this baby, this valley, that knife, a roof, that woman, a tooth, that child, this box, my brother-in-law, this boy, a toothbrush, a workman, a classroom, an armchair, a matchbox, this bookshop, that woman-teacher, his secretary, a nurse, a stepmother, his wife, a grown-up, a formula;
b) singular form:
feet, sheep, teeth, these boxes, these libraries, those babies, needs, our theses, those data, these heroes, kisses, families, sisters-in-law, his watches, actresses, those saleswomen, my boyfriends.
