C) Complete the sentences with one of the idioms above in the correct form.

1. Lately in our company Mr. Carr has been appointed as a new manager. Everybody is displeased. Some workers don’t even want to do what he orders. However, the others say, ‘We can’t change anything. …………… sweeps clean.’

2. His appointment as director was …………… – all the managers were fired.

3. Let me see. I’ll try to …………… a way how to get you some money.

4. Tom’s Mom always …………… every time he’s late.

5. She lives in a small cottage and is always glad to see anybody at her place so her friends and relatives often come to her because she knows how to …………….

6. The fact that he spends too much time at work often …………… the relationships in the family.

7. Although some people try to hide their dishonest behavior, everything …………… sooner or later.

8. After Mr. Green’s great success some of his business rivals want to see him ……………, suffering and poor again.

9. Everybody understood he was …………… when he promised to complete the project in a few days.

10. Helen’s boss told her not to ……………by discussing some company’s problems with her friends.

11. There shouldn’t be any secrets between close friends. Don’t …………… and be frank with me.

12. – Do you think Mary is in love with Jack? He is such a bore!

– You’d better ……………and think about you own relations with people!

13. He got into my garden to take some apples, but then my dog Mindy started barking and I ……………. .

TASK 19. On a card make up 10 affirmative and interrogative sentences using Ukrainian equivalents from Task 15 (b). Swap it with your partner and ask him to translate them.

TASK 20. Write a composition of about 150 words: “Chores I Like Most”

SUPPLEMENTARY EXERCISES

Exercise 1. Here are the principal definitions of each word with an example sentence using the target word in context. These words mean places or buildings people live in. Translate the example sentences and learn the target words with their definitions by heart.

1. an apartment	a living area within a building	My apartment is on the fifth floor.
2. a block	an area between two streets in a city	He lives two blocks from here.
3. an apartment block	a large apartment building	They live in an apartment block at 56, Oxford Street.
4. a block of flats	an apartment building	We live in that block of flats over there.
5. a bungalow	a small one-storeyed house	We rented a bungalow on the beach for our last summer vacation.
6. a cottage	a small house	They bought a quaint cottage in the English countryside.
7. a flat	an apartment	Jeffrey bought a marvelous little flat in the center of London
8. a house	a residential building	We've finally bought a new house for our family.
9. a detached house	a separate residential building	After twenty years, we were finally able to afford a detached house.
10. a semi-detached house	a residence with two homes	Many people live in a semi-detached house in the suburbs and commute to work by train from the suburbs.
11. a terraced house	a long line of houses joined together	They built a terraced house on the hill.
12. a duplex (American English)	an apartment with rooms on two floors with an inner staircase	The other days a friend of mine bought a nice duplex and he invited my family to have a look at it.

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