B) Answer the questions.

1. What are the main types of houses in Britain?

2. What is a detached house?

3. What is the difference between a detached house and a semi-detached house?

4. What is a terraced house?

5. Who likes to live in bungalows?

6. Why are apartment block not very popular?

7. What houses are built in Russia?

8. Do you share the opinion that many-storeyed houses are not quite convenient for living in? What do you think?

9. What is a mortgage?

A) Read the dialogue and translate it.

A: So, where do you live, Pete? Have you got your own house?

B: No, I haven’t. I’ve got a modern studio apartment in the centre of town.

A: Has it got a garden?

B: No, it hasn’t got a garden, but it’s got a small terrace.

A: Is there a kitchen in the apartment?

B: No, there isn’t but there’s a kitchen area with a fridge, a cooker and a sink. But I haven’t got a microwave.

A: What about furniture?

B: I’ve got a coffee table, and there are two chairs. And I’ve got a beautiful sofa – I love that sofa, I use it all the time – I eat my meals there because I haven’t got a dining table!

A: Is there a TV?

B: Yes, of course. And I’ve got a music system.

A: Have you got a computer?

B: Yes, I’ve got a laptop computer – I use the Internet a lot.

B) Work with a partner. Change the dialogue to speak about your homes. Learn it by heart.

WRITING ABOUT YOUR HOME

Read the four mini-texts below. Write out words from the texts in the correct columns.

1. Hello, I’m Tracey and I live in a terraced house in Glasgow, Scotland. A terraced house is a house joined to a row of other houses. It is not very big, only two bedrooms but my husband and I live on our own, so there is enough space for us and our dog, Spot. The only problem with a terraced house is the noise if you are unlucky enough to have noisy neighbours. Fortunately, we do not have that problem.

2. Hi, my name is Erik. I’m fifteen. I live with my parents in a small town in the South-East of England. We have a semi-detached house. This means that my house is joined to another house. It has a kitchen, lounge, bathroom with a toilet and three bedrooms. Oh, yes we also have a small garden. British people like having a garden, you know. It’s quite a modern house, so we have central heating. I would really like an open fireplace but modern houses do not have them.

3. Hi there. I’m Paul from London. I live in a detached house with my wife, two kids and a cat. It is quite a large house with a nice back garden and five bedrooms. Having a detached house is more expensive than a semi-detached or terraced one. I like it because when you are sitting in the garden, nobody else can see you. I would like to buy a country cottage somewhere nice and quiet but how would I find a job there?

4. Hello, my name is Yasmin. I’m fourteen and I live in Liverpool. My family comes from Bangladesh but I was born in England. We live in a council estate in a block of flats. This means that we did not have to buy our flat. It was given to us for free by the local government. Most British people would not want to live in a block of flats because quite often they are badly built and are associated with poverty and crime.

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