Week 3, day 7

Today's topic is My Ideal House.




1) Look at the picture and listen to Topic 33, My Ideal House 2-3 times.


- Listen and read the text now. Stop the recording after each sentence and try to imitate the native speaker.

33.My ideal house

My ideal house is a nice house in the country. It isn’t very big. It has eight rooms. It has two floors. Upstairs there are four bedrooms and a bathroom. Downstairs there is a living room, a kitchen, a bathroom, and a study. There is also a small gym in my ideal house. I can work out there. My house is comfortable. It has a fireplace. There is a garden with flowers, fruit trees and bushes around the house. I want to have a swimming pool behind the house, too. Friends can always come and visit me. We can have garden parties. We can have meals on the terrace.

- Answer the questions.

1. What is your ideal house like?

2. Is it big?

3. How many rooms has it got?

4. How many floors has it got?

5. What is there upstairs?

6. What is there downstairs?

7. What else is there in your ideal house?

8. Is there a garden around it?

9. What do you want to have behind the house?

10. Where can you have parties and meals?

- Try to memorise the text.


- Say the text. Record your voice and then check out with the original text.




2) Listen to Topic 33, My Ideal House in Past Simple.
Read it several times and answer the questions.


My Ideal House_past tense

When I lived in a flat, I often dreamt of my ideal house. My ideal house was a nice house in the country. Upstairs there were four bedrooms and a bathroom. Downstairs there was a living room, a kitchen, a bathroom and a study. There was a garden with flowers, fruit trees and bushes around the house.

1. What did you dream of when you lived in a flat?

2. What was your ideal house like?

3. What was there in it?

4. What was there around the house?

3) Practise Black Jack Comes Back, Chapter 5, Part 1 (Picture 1)


EN Black Jack Chapter Five Part One

To download Black Jack Comes Back program go to www.sapcrystals.com choose one of the platforms: Windows (Personal Computer), MAC (Macintosh), iOS (iPhones, iPads), Android (smartphones, tablets) and follow the instructions.



4) Listen to the dialogue and the three stories, the three summaries of the conversation, without reading the texts. Listen 2-3 times. After that listen to the dialogue and the summaries again looking at the texts and check whether you could understand all the details or not.

ACCOMMODATION


2.


Mary: Mr. Glover has a new house. It’s amazing.
Bob: Tell me about it.
Mary: I don’t know where to start!
Bob: Well, where is it?
Mary: It’s on a hill. There is a great view of the city from the patio.
Bob: That sounds nice. How many rooms are there in the house?
Mary: A lot! I think there are twenty-one. It’s a very large house.
Bob: Which room is the biggest?
Mary: The dining room is the biggest. It is larger than my entire flat.
Bob: How many people can sit at the dining room table?
Mary: I don’t know.
Bob: Tell me about the other parts of this mansion.
Mary: Okay. The house has five bathrooms and eight bedrooms.
Bob: Which room is your favourite?
Mary: That’s easy. The room with the swimming pool and jacuzzi.
Bob: Wow! Mr. Glover’s new house is amazing.
Mary: Yes, amazing and expensive.


Training 4
Mary is telling Bob that Mr. Glover has a new house. Mr. Glover’s new house is amazing. It’s on a hill with a great view of the city from the patio. It’s a very large house with twenty-one rooms. The dining room is the biggest. The house has five bathrooms and eight bedrooms. There’s also a room with a swimming pool and jacuzzi.


1. Does Mr. Glover have a new house or a flat?
2. Where is it?
3. Does it have a great view from the kitchen or from the patio?
4. How many rooms are there?
5. Which is the biggest room?
6. How many bathrooms are there?
7. How many bedrooms are there?
8. Is there a swimming pool in the garden?


Training 5
Bob: “Mary is telling me that Mr. Glover has a new house. I know that Mr. Glover doesn’t have a new house. Mr. Glover is a businessman but he isn’t a successful businessman. Mr. Glover rents a small flat in the centre of the city. The flat only has one bedroom. It doesn’t have a room with a swimming pool. I know that Mary wants a new house and I want to know what kind of house she wants.”


1. What is Mary telling Bob?
2. Does Mr. Glover have a new house or not?
3. What does Mr. Glover do?
4. Is Mr. Glover a successful businessman or not?
5. Does he live in a big house in the country?
6. How many bedrooms does he have?
7. What about a swimming pool?
8. What does Mary want?


Training 6
Mary is telling Bob about Mr. Glover and his big house. She wants a new house on a hill with a great view of the city from the patio. She wants a very large house with a lot of rooms. She also wants a room with a swimming pool and jacuzzi. Mr. Glover is a businessman but he isn’t very successful. In fact he doesn’t have a house. He rents a small flat in the city. There isn’t a swimming pool in the flat. There is only one bedroom and a small kitchen.


- Read the dialogue and the summaries yourself recording your voice. Then listen to the original texts and to your voice sentence by sentence.


- Training 4. Answer the questions. Read the first question and answer it, then read the second... and so on.


- Now just look at the questions and answer them one by one. Do it 2-3 times. Try not to stop after each question.


- Say the text of Training 4 without looking at the text. Record your voice and compare your story with the story in the book.


- Training 5. Do the same with Training 5.


- Training 6. Read the summary 2-3 times. You don't have to memorise it now.




5) Practise Training N27 in Present Simple, and practise Training N31 in Past Simple.


Training 27

Helga is a translator. She translates books from English into Hungarian. Helga translates perfectly. Helga likes translating but she hates typing. Helga never types her translations. She never writes her translations, either. Helga has a very good assistant. Helga dictates and her assistant types the texts into the computer. Helga doesn’t like the computer and the computer doesn’t like Helga. Whenever Helga tries to use the computer, it refuses to work. However, the computer never refuses to work for the assistant. They adore each other.

Training 31

Helga used to be a translator. She translated books from English into Hungarian. Helga translated perfectly. Helga liked translating but she hated typing. Helga never typed her translations. She never wrote her translations, either. Helga had a very good assistant. Helga dictated and her assistant typed the texts into the computer. Helga didn’t like the computer and the computer didn’t like Helga. Whenever Helga tried to use the computer, it refused to work. However, the computer never refused to work for the assistant. They adored each other.

6) Do this test from Topic-Based Tests for Beginners.

Complete the sentences with my, your, his, her, our, their.


1. Mr. Doss lives at _____ parent’s house in the suburbs.
2. Mr. Slater lives in the city. _____ apartment is very small.
3. Ms. Kramer lives in the country. _____ house is very big.
4. I live two kilometres from Ms. Kramer. _____ house is smaller than hers.
5. Ms. Kramer has a big party every weekend. Many people come to _____ parties.
6. Mr. Doss drives _____ truck from the city to Ms. Kramer’s house every weekend.
7. I never have parties at _____ house.
8. You live very far away. _____ apartment is in Paris.
9. Mr. Slater visited me. He left _____ hat in my house.
10. I still have his hat in _____ closet.
11. Ms. Kramer visited you. She left _____ sunglasses on your kitchen counter.
12. The sunglasses are still in _____ kitchen.
13. Mr. Doss and Mr. Slater own a cabin. _____ cabin is by a lake.
14. They do not go to _____ cabin in winter. It is too cold.
15. I like to visit their cabin. I drive there in _____ car.
16. We met in Paris. _____ hotel rooms were on the same floor.
17. You visited me last year. You slept on _____ couch.
18. We went to one of Ms. Kramer’s parties. _____ party was excellent.
19. Mr. Doss was there. He played _____ guitar.
20. We cooked a meal in the kitchen. Everyone liked _____ food.




See the key to this test below.


Read the story-based test 2-3 times. Try to memorise the text. Record your voice and then check out with the original text.




Key to Test 3, Accommodation.
1. his 2. his 3. her 4. my 5. her 6. his 7. my 8. your 9. his 10. my 11. her 12. your 13. their 14. their 15. my 16. our 17. my 18. her 19. his 20. our