Question

Надо сделать 12 и 13 номера.
THERE IS NO PLACE LIRE HOME
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A lot of English families have got their own houses, but some peo ple live in flats. There are two floors in the traditional English house: the ground floor and the first floor. People in England like their homes and always show them to their visitors.
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On Saturday Mr Blake invites Mr Voronin to his place to spend an evening with his family.
The Blakes1 live in a house with a garden not far from London. There is a sitting room and a study downstairs. The kitchen is down stairs too. The sitting room is large and sunny. There is a sofa, two armchairs and a coffee table there. There is a standard lamp and a TV set there too. Above the sofa there is a nice wall lamp.
Beautiful plants make the room cosy.
In the kitchen there is an electric cooker, a refrigerator-freezerand a washing machine, but there isn’t a dishwasher. There are also some cupboards with plates, cups, glasses, knives, forks and spoons.The study is a small room with bookshelves on the walls. Upstairs there are 3 bedrooms and a bathroom.
The Blakes love their house and think: “There is no place like home”2.


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Now Mr
Blake and Mr Voronin are sitting
near the
fireplace in
Mr Blake’s study.


Voronin:
This is a lovely room, Mr Blake.


Blake:
I’m glad you like it. It’s always a pleasure to
sit here and

read newspapers and magazines after a long day in the of
Voronin:
fice. And where do you live in Moscow, Mr Voronin?
We live in a three-roomflat in a new district of Moscow.
Blake:
Is your flat comfortable?


Voronin:
Yes, very. There’s much built-in
furniture in our hall

and in the kitchen. The windows are large and the rooms
Blake:
are light.


In which room do you like to spend evening hours?
Voronin:
In the sitting room. We usually watch television, see films
Blake: on the DVD-playeror listen to music on compact disks.
Yes, it’s always nice to spend a quiet evening with the
Voronin: I think so too.


Ex. 12»Agree or disagree. Give your reasons.
1.English people don’t like to show their homes to visitors.
2.Mr Blake’s family lives in a traditional English house.
3.The Blakes’ house is small.
4.There are four rooms downstairs in the Blakes’ house.
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1.Mr Blake likes to spend evening hours in the sitting room.
2.Mr Voronin has got a three-roomflat in Moscow.
3.There is no built-infurniture in the Voronins’ flat.
4.Voronin spends evening hours in his study.
5.The windows in Mr Voronin’s flat are small and the rooms are not light.

Ex. 13. Say what you remember from thetext about:
1.the traditional English house;
2.the Blakes’ house;
3.Mr Voronin’s flat;
4.the evenings in the Blakes’ and in the Voronins’ families.

Answer 1

12
1disagree
2agree
3disagree
4disagree
1agree
2agree
3agree
4disagree
5disagree