It takes her 20 minutes to get to her office.

10. “What's your birthplace?" Anna asked.

Task 5. Guess which words from the text are explained below.

1. a deep usually round metal cooking pot with a handle and usually a lid;

2. a flat pan with a long handle, used for frying food especially in the home;

3. a vessel, usually round, with a handle at one side and a spout (bent pouring pipe) at the other, in which tea is made and served;

4. a set of shelves enclosed by doors, where clothes, cups, plates, food, etc. may be stored;

5. the steps between two landings;

6. a place for the foot when going from one level to another;

7. a piece of furniture with shelves for books;

8. an apparatus on which food is cooked;

9. a table often with drawers, at which one reads, writes, or does business

10. a thick usually woolen floor mat, smaller than a carpet;

11. a room used for cooking;

12. the passage just inside the entrance of a house from which the rooms open;

13. a platform at the top of a flight of stairs on to which doors open.

Task 6. Arrange the points in logical order. Reproduce the original text using the key words given below.

1. to ask for the morning off, to get a bus, to set off for, to put an advertisement, arrive at, to go up to the advertising department, to write out the advertisement, to sit down examining the form;

2. to speak good English, to come from, to shake hands, a furnished room, five pounds a week, to be quite near here;

3. a room of her own, at the moment, not to get on well together, the journey to her office, for a reasonable rent;

4. opposite her, a dark-haired girl, to smile at her; to fill in the form, to say smth, in English, not to be quite sure, to rent a room, to let a room to someone;

5. to climb the stairs, on the landing, what a lovely room, to walk over to the window, to stay here.

6. She liked the look of it, to walk up a short flight of steps, to follow smb., to be out, to show the room, on the top floor;

7. to leave the office, to cross the bridge, to climb a steep hill, to take the third turning on the left;

8. to cover most of the floor, in front of the gas-fire, of a lighter shade, through the window, beneath the window, next to the gas-fire;

9. to be pleased, to move in, to be in, you'll like it here, to get a room, a view over the river.

10. to be bigger than she expected, to look behind the curtain, in the corner, turn on the tap, a shelf above, beside the cooker, in a drawer at the top, to pull back the curtain.

Task 7. Disagree with the following statements and correct them. Give reasons for your disagreement. Make sure you begin your answer with such commonly accepted phrases as:

1. When Anna asked her manager for the morning off, he refused.

2. Anna is staying at the hotel but she wants a room of her own.

3. Anna doesn't like Putney.

4. On the morning of April the 15th Anna set off for shopping.

5. Susan was the first to start the conversation.

6. Anna left the office of the Echo alone and went to her office.

7. When the girls arrived Mrs. Bond was busy in the kitchen.

8. At first Anna didn't like the house and the room.

9. Anna decided not to change anything in the room.

10. Anna decided to move in the next day.

11. When Mrs. Bond met Anna, she was disappointed.

Task 8. Answer the following questions:

1. What is Anna doing in London? 2. How long is she going to be in England? 3. Why does Anna want to find a room of her own? 4. Why does she want to find a room in Putney? 5. What makes it difficult to find a room? 6. Why did Anna ask the manager for the morning off? When did she do it? 7.The manager let her have the whole day free, didn't he? 8. Where and when did Anna meet Susan? 9.What was Susan doing in the advertising department of the local paper? 10. Why did Anna agree to go and see the room? 11. What was the name of the street where Susan lived and how did the girls get there? 12. What did the house look like? 13. Susan's mother was out when the girls arrived, wasn't she? 14. Did Anna like the room? What did she like about the room? 15. What made the room cheerful and comfortable? 16. What did Anna want to change in the room? 17. When was Anna going to move in? 18. What is Anna's in England now?

Date: 2015-12-17; view: 2283