Cpcп 6-7 dwelling

You're newly-weds. Discuss where you'll live.

Topics for oral composition.

1. Describe your apartment.

2. Describe the house where you live.

3. Describe your favorite buildings in Astana.

4. Describe a house of your dream.

5. What kind of apartment can be ideal for a family of four and why?

Ex. 3. Compose dialogues for the following imaginary situations.

1. You spent last Sunday at your friend's summer house. Tell your mother what you liked and disliked about the house and its premises. Answer her questions.

2. Discuss with your friend what house you'd like to buy, what you'd like to have around the house, in what area you'd like it to be located, etc.

3. You are a real estate agent. Help your client to find a house he / she is interested in.

4. Convince your friend that to live in a house outside the city is must better than to have an apartment downtown, answer all his arguments.

5. You're newly-weds. Discuss where you'll live.

6. You're an interior designer. Give professional advice to your client about how to decorate his/her new apartment.

7. Convince your husband/wife that it's absolutely necessary to replace furniture and to redecorate your apartment.

8. You don't like the apartment your husband/wife wants to buy. Give your reasons.

9. You have a room for rent. Show it to a possible tenant and discuss with him/her.

10. You need some place to live. Discuss with your friend possibilities renting an apartment.

Ex .4. Read the text.

The Language of Estate Agents.

It's a running joke in Britain that the more disreputable estate agents will always try to make the houses they are trying to sell sound much more desirable than they really are. An estate agent would never write: "This is a horrible little house in very poor condition. The trains go past every 10 minutes and shake the walls. The back garden is laughably small. This is why it is so cheap." Instead he would say: "This compact residence is ideally priced for the first-time buyer. Although in need of some renovations, it has some highly attractive features, including a small patio/ garden to the rear. It is very convenient to the railway station."

Ex. 5. Topics for discussions and essays:

1. Where would you prefer to live - in the city or in the country? Why?

2. Would you like to live on your own? What age do you think is the best to get separated from one's parents? Why? Maybe you think that several generations of a family should live together?

3. What does "home" mean to you?

4. What do you think makes your home comfortable?

5. "East or West home is best". Is the proverb correct? Try to prove your opinion.

6. Do you like moving to new places? Is it easy for you to leave your home? Why?

7. Americans are known to move a lot. First they live at their parent's home. When they enter a University they live in a dormitory or rent a room and share it with a fellow student. They get a job and go to live in a new city or even a in new state. If they're offered a better job they'll move many times more, crossing the country from East to West and from North to South. Could you live the same way? What do you think they acquire and what do they lose living like that?