- •Part I east or west – home is best
- •Part II where we live
- •1. What kind of house do you live in?
- •8. What is there around your house?
- •9. What are the other parts of the house worth mentioning?
- •10. What can you see in the premises?
- •Places to live
- •Home is where you make it!
- •Dwell upon the following:
- •Tires are hub of new walls
- •Part III furniture
- •Hall (Entrance Hall)
- •Parts of a house
- •Living room
- •25 Feet long by 15 feet wide
- •Our sitting room
- •Exercise 5
- •Bedroom (Bedchamber)
- •My bedroom
- •Bathroom and toilet
- •Exercise 14
- •Kitchen
- •Speaking
- •Fill in the necessary words.
- •Give the English equivalents:
- •Exercise 19 Choose the most suitable word for each space. Part a. Furniture and fittings.
- •Part c. What do you have at home? Discuss it with your partner.
- •Speaking
- •Listening Moving in
- •My favourite room
- •Inside Homes Around the World
- •The use of walls and doors
- •A special kind of wall
- •Furniture
- •Exercise 1
- •Exercise 2 Fill in the missing words.
- •Lucky Houses
- •My house
- •What is student accommodation like in Great Britain?
- •Part IV housekeeping
- •A very dangerous invention
- •Exercise 4
- •Housekeeping
- •Speaking
- •Keeping your room tidy
- •It takes me ...... Minutes/ hours to do the room
- •Exercise 8 Translate the following sentences into English.
- •Arranging the house
- •Техніка у нас вдома
- •1001 Household hints
- •Speaking
- •Як ми робимо генеральне прибирання
- •The family who turned back the clock
- •Part V househunting
- •Buying a house
- •A new house
- •Just what we’re looking for!
- •Group Discussion: Finding a Flat or House
- •Community Activity: Looking at Ads in the Newspaper
- •Listening
- •Speaking Partners’ Interview: Your Landlord
- •Group Problem Solving: Problems with Your Landlord
- •Part VI a house of my dream
- •Dome sweet dome!
- •Designing a dream home
- •Expressing need
- •Revision topics
Bathroom and toilet
a bathtub
a shower
a jacuzzi
a shower curtain
a bidet
a towel rail
a bathmat
a medicine cabinet / a first aid kit
a tap
a mixer tap
a diverter
a plug-hole
a drain plug
a washbasin
a faucet
a bar of soap
face (toilet) soap
laundry soap
liquid soap
scented soap
a soap-dish
to soap
washing powder / detergent
a laundry-basket / a linen bin for dirty linen
a sponge
a washcloth
a razor
a nailbrush
a tube of toothpaste
a hairbrush
a comb
a terry towel
a terry bathrobe
a cistern
a toilet / a lavatory / WC / loo
a toilet pan
a toilet roll holder
a flush
a ventilator
a sauna
sanitary engineering
Exercise 11
Part A. Complete these good bathroom rules. There may be more than one answer.
Hang up the ________ _________ when you've finished with your bath.
Put the soap back in the ________ ________ when you've done washing.
Put all your dirty clothes in the ___________ .
Clean out the _________ after you take a bath.
Don't splatter toothpaste all over the ___________ .
Part B. Circle the word that does't belong and tell why.
hamper bathtub tile wastepaper basket
shampoo drain plug soap toothpaste
sponge washcloth mirror towel
nailbrush toilet brush toothbrush hairbrush
bathroom scales faucet bathtub shower curtain
Part C. Read the following situations. Tell what the person did next. Finish the story in two or three sentences. Use all of the given words.
Sam was taking a shower. Suddenly, the phone rang.
shower curtain, bathtub, bath towel
e.g. He pulled back the shower curtain and climbed out of the bathtub. Then he grabbed a bath towel and ran to answer the phone.
Lisa was taking a shower. Suddenly, the hot water stopped!
cold water faucet, hot water faucet, bathtub, bath towel
Betty answered the phone at 7 p.m. It was Frank. He asked if she'd like to go to a movie with him at 8 p.m. Betty said yes, but after she hung up, she recollected that her hair was dirty.
washbasin, hand towel, shampoo, hair dryer
Joe's mother has just called him. She told him that she was on her way over to see his new apartment. She said she'd be there in an hour. Joe's apartment is in a mess, especially the bathroom!
hamper, bathtub, washbasin, mirror, toilet, toilet brush, wastepaper basket
Writing
Write a paragraph about what you do when you get up in the morning. Use the words below, and words like first, second, third, then, after that, finally. Then write four questions about your paragraph. Give your paragraph and questions to a partner to see if he /she can answer your questions correctly.
hair dryer toothbrush sponge bath towel
mirror hairbrush comb toothpaste
closet hanger soap night table
alarm clock box of tissues light switch shampoo
washcloth bathtub shower blanket
Exercise 12
Write the words that fit the following definitions:
something to wash your body with ______________________
something to dry it with ______________________
something to put a bar of soap in ______________________
something to clean your teeth with ______________________
something to wash your clothes with ______________________
Give the English equivalents:
зубна паста, мило, бачок, зубна щітка, ручка для спускання води, душ, ванна, занавіска для душу, вішалка для рушників, махровий рушник, кусок мила, унітаз, мата для ванної кімнати, тумбочка для ліків, губка, пральний порошок, змішувач води, бритва, капці.
Exercise 13
Translate this passage into English:
Раніше, коли ми не мали змоги бачити, купувати та користуватись розкішною сантехнікою, духмяним милом та шампунем (не для всіх типів волосся в одному), ми і гадки не мали, що таке існує.
Після налагодження зв’язків із зарубіжними країнaми, українці мають можливість придбати (якщо, звичайно, дозволяє гаманець) чудові ванни, умивальники, унітази, біде і т.ін. Найбільш завзяті господині підбирають за кольором і візерунком кахель, занавіски для душу та рушники. Тепер вони можуть придбати найрізноманітніші предмети туалету: зубну щітку та пасту, мило, губку, шампунь, тонік, різні креми та маски.
Що може бути приємнішим за теплу ароматну ванну, а потім бадьорячий душ! Після цього загорнутись у м’який махровий халат, взути кімнатні капці і попрямувати на кухню, щоб насолодитись чашкою кави чи чаю.
Reading
Read this funny text and describe the way you’d furnish your own bathroom. Think of the title for it.
A few months ago my family and I moved into a new house. We left our small apartment and bought a lovely big house just outside the city. We took all our furniture to the new house, but we also needed a lot of new things. We wanted to paint and decorate many of the rooms, too.
For weeks I went to deparment stores and paint shops almost every day, I looked at curtains and carpets, at wallpaper and paint. Soon our house began to look like a beautiful home. But I had a problem with the bathroom.
I needed a shower curtain for the bath. I wanted one exactly the same colour as the walls. But I couldn’t find one that was just the right blue. Luckily my toothbrush was the same colour blue I needed for the curtain. So I took it with me in my handbag when I went shopping. In each shop I showed my toothbrush to the shop assistant.
“Have you got a shower curtain exactly this colour?”, I asked. But none of the shops had a curtain just that blue.
In one shop, I looked at eleven blue shower curtains. I looked at each curtain and then I looked at my toothbrush.
“I’m sorry”, I said. “It’s not the right colour”.
Finally the shop assistant looked at me angrily and said: “Madam, why don’t you buy a new toothbrush?”