Pronunciation

2 Listen and repeat. Add the words from the dialogues and from the vocabulary to the appropriate sounds.

[æ] flat, balcony, carrots,

[a:] barn, garden, apartment, yard,

[u] bedroom, restroom, living room, bathroom,

[i] living room, kitchen,

[o] sauna, hall, orchard,

[au] house, cow-shed,

[oi] toilet,

[t] orchard, kitchen,

Oral exercises

3 Find the pairs of rhyming words.

door blind fat fine go hall home mall power price room shower time

bore fall kind mow nine rat rhyme rice roam shovel towel wall zoom

4 Practice the following sentences with the words given below. Listen and repeat the sentences until you can say them fluently.

a) two: We live in a two-story house.

three, five, eight, nine, twelve

b) sofa: There is a sofa in the living room.

table, TV set, picture, rug

c) microwave oven: We have a microwave oven in the kitchen.

refrigerator, stove, oven, sink

5 Say whether the following sentences are true of false. If the sentence is false – correct it.

		True	False
a)	A kitchen is the place where you prepare and cook food.
b)	A living room is the place where you sleep in the night.
c)	A bathroom is the place where you have a toilet and a shower.
d)	A bedroom is the place where you read newspaper.
e)	A balcony is the place from where you play football.

Grammar

There is / there are

6 Read the following texts about houses in Russia paying attention to sentences beginning with there is.

Houses in Russia are different.

One can see small private houses in the villages. They usually have a yard surrounded by a fence. People in the villages keep farm animals and poultry in the yard. There is usually a shed for keeping poultry within the yard and a barn for keeping crops. There’s always a sauna in every yard. All houses in Russia have either central or own heating systems.

In the cities people usually live in apartments. Apartments in Russia may be two to twenty-story or even taller. People rent apartments for a long period or buy them though they are expensive. The price of an apartment depends on how many rooms and bathrooms it has. Usually a family of four lives in a three-room apartment with two bedrooms, a living room and a kitchen. They pay for the utilities (electricity, gas, central heating, water and general maintenance) to the state. There is usually a storeroom for unused things and a balcony. In general, people prefer to buy their apartments rather than to rent them.