VI Work in pairs. Discuss the questions. 1. Does the interaction between light and colour create great opportunities for designers?

1. Does the interaction between light and colour create great opportunities for designers?

2. Do certain colours tend to elicit certain emotions?

3. What is the connection between colour, emotion and your physical well-being?

4. What hues are considered warm and cool?

5. Why colour is a wonderful tool in interior design?

6. What is your favourite colour?

7. What are the advantages of colour used intelligently?

8. What colours are predominant?

9. What colour increases the sense of spaciousness?

10.What elements are used by interior designers to bring additional contrast in the room?

VII Practice reading the dialogues with your partner:

1)

-Hey, honey, look – there’s a big furniture sale on at Eaton’s. I want to change an interior design style.

- New interior design? Furniture sale? What do we need with more furniture?

-Not more, new. We agreed to replace some of this old stuff if I got my bonus.

-Do you want to replace these beautiful antiques?

-They’re not antiques – they’re junk. Look, this sofa sags in the middle, there are cat scratches on the drapes, and this armchair – well, even reupholstering won’t help it.

- Okay, okay. You’ve convinced me. This place could do with some fixing up. Let’s see than ad. Hmmm, 50% off, eh? We can even pay in monthly payments.

-But you always hate charging things. And we have some money saved up for rainy da y, you know. I can at least start shopping around.

- We can both do the shopping – it won’t be easy finding a replacement for my favourite old easy chair.

bonus – премія;

junk (cheap second-hand goods) – старі речі;

sag – прогинатися;

reupholstering – перебивання;

fixing up – полагодити;

for a rainy day(idiomatic) – на випадок крайньої потреби;

easy chair(armchair) – крісло (з підлокітником);

2)

Reed: Now, the downstairs rooms. Am I to design a living-room and a separate dining-room, or a room that can be used for general purposes?

Wells: That’s question for Anne, I think.

Anne: Jack and I would like a fairly large living-room, I think. We don’t need a separate dining-room.

Jack: We thought we’d like to have a fairly large kitchen with a dining recess. Lots of people eat in the kitchen.

Ann: Modern kitchens are quite pleasant rooms, aren’t they?

Wells: An excellent idea.

Reed: May I make a suggestion? Why not a dining recess in the living-room?

You can have a good kitchen – plenty of space for working in, and space for a table you could have breakfast at if you wanted. You’d have quite a large living-room. Now, look at this sketch. Here’s your living-room. One end of it can be used quite easily for meals. Between the two parts of the room you can have a built-in piece of furniture. It wouldn’t be high – not up to the ceiling. On one side there’d be cupboards, drawers and shelves. And on the other side would be a bookcase. You could have a built-in writing-desk, too, if you liked.

Anne: Oh, that’s a marvelous idea. Don’t you think so, Jack?

recess – ніша, заглиблення;

drawer – шухляда

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