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Martin: Well, it's basically a three bedroom house. Very individual in style. There's no front door at
all. You come into the hall from a side door. As you walk down the hall, there are two bedrooms on the left.
On the right there is a door leading into a huge lounge.
Linda: What about the third bedroom?
Martin: Well, if you keep going down the hall, it is on the right, past the lounge room. The room on the
left would make a useful study or family room. The one on the right, which has a wine cellar by the way,
would be a very good store room or junk room.
Linda: I see.
Martin: What sold me on the house was the kitchen. It leads off the lounge and is huge. We can eat in
there when we don't feel like having a formal meal in the dining room.
Linda: What about outside?
Martin: Well, there's a big wide verandah running across the front of the house. The two main bedrooms
look out onto this. It also continues down the left-hand side of the house. Part of it, on the western side acts
as a passage to the bathroom and toilet.
Linda: And the garden? You said something about a garden.
Martin: Yes, it is one of the nicest things about the place. A driveway runs down the left-hand side of the
house to the garden. On the right of the house there is an orchard with apple, plum and orange trees. At the
rear there is a large grassed area surrounded by a border of trees and shrubs. In the middle of the lawn there
is an old clothes line.
Linda: That'll have to go!
Martin: Well, it is usefiil.
Linda: I don't care, it is ugly.
Martin: OK, the clothes line goes.
Linda: Well, then, when can I see it?
Martin: As soon as you arrive tomorrow..
Linda: Great. I'll see you then. Bye.
Martin: Bye.
Exercise 22
Speak about the room where you live. Make use of the topical vocabulary.
Exercise 23
Speak about the flat where you live. Make use of the following questions and topical vocabulary.
1. Where do you live? How many floors does the house have? Is it a block of flats or not?
2. What modern facilities does your flat offer? Do you have electricity, running water, gas, a telephone, a
radio?
3. What kind of flooring do you have in your flat?
4. How are the walls of your flat finished? Are they whitewashed, tiled or wallpapered? Do you like to
adorn the walls?
5. How is your flat lighted?
6. What kind of curtains (hangings, blinds) do you have? Do they go well with the wallpaper?
7. Is your flat crammed with things?
8. What makes your flat look cosy?
9. Do you have a convenient working space or a desk at home? Where do you keep your books?
Exercise 24
Find a photograph or a picture of an interior in which you recognize a taste that is radically different from
your personal style. Tell your classmates what you like or dislike about it.
Exercise 25
If you have travelled abroad, speak about the difference in interior decorations which one may observe in
foreign (British, American, German, etc.) and Russian homes.
Exercise 26
Ask your partner the following questions and fill in his or her answers. Then summarize what his/her
answers suggest about his or her ideas about home.
Do you think a home is somewhere Yes No Don't Know
you are secure and warm? ____________________
you can be alone? __________________________