- •А кадемия управления при Президенте Республики Беларусь с истема открытого образования
- •Improve your speaking skills in english
- •Учебно-методическое пособие
- •Часть I
- •Предисловие
- •Unit I people as they are Starting – Up
- •Vocabulary Focus
- •Discussion Focus
- •Graphology Speed
- •Practicing Vocabulary
- •Jack’s Real Character
- •Ann Johnson – a Confidential Report
- •A What is Smart?
- •B Being Superstitious
- •C Loneliness
- •Read and Discuss
- •It’s Me, Oh Lord!
- •Calling All Eccentrics
- •The Joys of Eccentricity
- •Who’s Nuts? Who’s Reserved?
- •Many Britons Prefer Pets to People, Children, Money and Jobs
- •Happiness
- •Attitude is Everything
- •Unit 2 home, house and facilities Starting-Up
- •Vocabulary Focus
- •1) To start to live in a place (after moving from somewhere else)
- •Discussion Focus
- •What Do You Need in Your Neighbourhood?
- •3) Do you think the never-never or hire-purchase system is really helpful for many people, young couples in particular?
- •5 Country or City?
- •Back to Nature
- •6 What I like and dislike about my own town or city
- •Flats in the Clouds
- •Multi-storeyed buildings
- •8 The Place of My Dream
- •1) Housing, e.G. Flat; 2) facilities, e.G. Shop; 3) communities,
- •Practising Vocabulary
- •Moving House
- •4) At home, while I make some tea.
- •8) Furniture from the street market near the cathedral.
- •A House in the Country
- •3 My friends live in a small .................................. House in a street where all the houses look alike.
- •14 The most important thing about a house or flat is that it should be .................................. .
- •Read and Discuss
- •Reading
- •Accommodation
- •Post-Reading
- •Just What We Are Looking For!!!
- •Post-Reading
- •Text IV
- •Post-Reading
- •References
- •Improve Your Speaking Skills in English
- •Часть 1
- •220007, Г. Минск, ул. Московская, 17.
Post-Reading
A Make a list of types of accommodation for visitors to the UK mentioned in the text.
B Use alternative words to say the following:
1) a range of accommodation; 2) camping and caravan sites; 3) a travel agent; 4) accommodation guides; 5) per person, not per room; 6) a night’s accommodation; 7) arrangements can be made to check out later; 8) to have fewer facilities; 9) the tourist boards inspect hotels.
C Give the English for:
1) бронировать место в гостинице; 2) разгар сезона отпусков; 3) полу-пансион и полный пансион в гостинице; 4) время регистрации и выписки; 5) без ограничений возраста; 6) те, кому нет тридцати лет; 7) в условиях самообслуживания; 8) управление по делам туризма.
D Discuss with your partners.
1. How can you get accommodation in Britain? 2. What is advisable to know about the hotels in Britain? 3. What’s a ‘guest house’? 4. What type of accommodation is ‘B and B’? 5. What accommodation can Britain offer to young people? 6. Can you compare the accommodation in Great Britain with that in your country or any other country you have visited?
Text III
Pre-Reading
Sometimes old houses are a problem for the neighbourhood. Discuss with your partners if they are worth reconstructing or should be destroyed for new houses to be built.
Reading
Read the text “Just What We Are Looking For!!!” and do the tasks that follow.
Just What We Are Looking For!!!
I left the hotel today at eight o’clock for an early appointment with the agent, who yesterday assured me he had found me just the house we were looking for. When I arrived he looked less convinced than I did. Even at that time of the morning, I was already irritable and despondent as I arrived at the first address. At first I walked past the house. Where it should have been was a wilderness of trees and overgrown grass. Then out of the green darkness stepped the agent. ‘Ah, there you are! It’s here,’ he said. I stepped in through the broken-down gate, and walked up the dusty garden path. It immediately felt cooler and calmer. The agent rattled a large bunch of keys, and tried several in the door, talking to himself all the time, before he exclaimed, ‘Ah!’
We let ourselves in and walked into a deliciously cool, but dusty house. He suggested I walk around by myself. I went into a gloomy living room downstairs and switched on the light, but nothing happened. The agent heard me clicking the switch and said, ‘Ah! No good. The switch needs mending. I’ll have an electrician repair it immediately.’ I peered into the darkness and made out the shape of a window on the far side. The agent walked over to the window and threw open the peeling shutters, the sunlight streamed in. A rather faded sofa and two battered armchairs sat around an open fireplace which hinted at log fires in winter. The curtains were stripy but more or less in shreds. Outside there was a terrace and beyond the trees, the dense undergrowth, the tall grass and the wild plants that were once the garden, were the mountains in the distance. I walked through into what must have been a kitchen, but only recognisable because of the antiquated equipment which I last saw during a visit to a local museum. I turned on the tap, and once again nothing happened. ‘The water needs to be reconnected. We’ll get the plumber to do it. It’s no problem,’ the agent said.
Upstairs there were two bedrooms and a bathroom with low ceilings and which were, despite being hidden in the roof, still quite cool. The bathroom had no bath and not much room, but a beautiful view over the garden. The basin was filthy with the dirt of the years during which the place had been unoccupied. I sat on the brass bed in the dusty bedroom, and looked round, thinking, not bad, not bad at all. In my mind, I could see the house with new curtains and carpets, our own furniture, which had been in store for several months, books on the shelves, beds made up, lengthy lunches on the terrace, endless summers and warm winters. I could do most of the work myself.
I went down downstairs and the agent looked at me hopefully. It was worth the lengthy search, the dusty visits to endless houses, the depressing inspections of grim flats, to see his smile when I said to him, ‘It’s just what we’re looking for.’