Unit 2, Lesson 2, Ex. 2

Тексты для восприятия и понимания речи на слух к учебному пособию для гимназий

«Английский язык / Англійская мова. 10 класс” авторов Н.В. Демченко и др.

Минск: Издательский центр БГУ, 2014

UNIT 1

Unit 1 Lesson 2

1.

- Hello, my name is Henry.

- Nice to meet you. My name is Alison.

- Are you an American, Alison? Your accent sounds American way.

- Well, actually I am Canadian.

-Wow, really?

- And what about you?

- I am Australian, from Sydney.

- Really? I hear it is a beautiful city.

- Yes, it is. What do you do, Alison?

- I work for a bank now. I am a teller.

- A teller?

- And what about you, Henry?

- I am a teacher.

- Really?

2.

- Hello, I don`t think we have met. My name is David Tarrintor.

- How do you do? Nice to meet you. I am Susan Lauw.

- And where are you from, Susan?

- I am from the United States, from Chicago actually.

- Oh, really?

- And where are you from, David? Are you British?

- That`s right. I am from London.

- Have you ever been here at the university? Are you a student?

- No, I am not, I am a chemist. I work for the hospital.

- I see.

- And what about you? Are you a student?

- That`s right. I am studying law at the university.

UNIT 2

Lesson 1

Ex. 1b

1. In modern usage, a cottage is usually a modest, often cosy dwelling, usually in a village or the countryside

2. A bungalow is a type of a detached single storey often with verandahs.

3. A semi-detached house, often abbreviated to semi in the UK, Canada and Australia is joined to another house by one wall that they share.

4. A terrace or terraced house is a house in a row of similar houses joined together on both sides. The American word is row house. The first and last of these houses is called an end terrace, and is often a different layout from the houses in the middle.

5. A single-family detached house is a free-standing residential building. It is not joined to any other building.

6. A mansion is a large a large house, usually a beautiful and expensive one. In modern British English a mansion block refers to a block of flats or apartments.

7. A maisonette (from the French - little house) is a flat with two levels in a large multi-storey apartment building. The usual layout is combined kitchen and dining room, living space and accessories on the lower floor, several bedrooms and a second bathroom on the top.

8. A block of flats is a large building that is divided into apartments

9. A palace is a very large building, especially one used as the official home of a royal family, president, or important religious leader

Ex. 2

The most essential things for man’s life are food, water, clothes and shelter. But a human being wants not just a shelter, not just a house but a home.

In the past people used to build houses out of local materials and many areas developed their own style of building. As a result the architectural landscape in Britain is extremely varied.

There are huge differences among houses. They vary in style, size, colour, material, the age of the building, ownership and many other things.

A great number of people in Britain dream of having a large spacious detached house with a garden. But even a small detached house is very desirable. Such houses give more privacy which is so dear to any British heart. They still think that “An Englishman’s home is his castle”.

Many people like cottages especially if they are thatched and conveniently located. Cottages are usually small but still detached. The next alternative is a semi-detached house (duplex in American English) where you have just one neighbouring family. Each house is the mirror of the other. They are exactly the same inside and outside.

Terraced houses (or rowed houses in America) are the last on the wish list but still better than flats. Quite a few people try to avoid living in blocks of flats (American: apartment blocks) first of all because they provide the least amount of privacy. Although Britain is very densely populated, the proportion of flats is second lowest in Europe. Terraced houses usually have no way though to the back garden except through the house itself. Each house in a row is joined to the next one. Houses at the end of the row are called end terrace houses and have more space around them. They are more desirable and more expensive compared to the houses in the middle.

An exception is the town house which can be found in the inner areas of cities. They have three or more floors and a basement. Even though they are terraced they are highly desirable especially if they are conveniently located. Many of these houses have been broken into flats or studios. A studio is a flat with a general living space combining a living room, a bedroom and a kitchen in one room.

Many people nowadays interpret the proverb “An Englishman’s home is his castle” in a good old way. But quite a few interpret it very practically. Property ownership is a very good long-term investment which can be sold with profit if need be.

Unit 2, Lesson 2, Ex. 2

Hi, my name is Sam. I live in a village not far from Lancaster in the north-west of England.

I live in a detached house. It is made of bricks and tiles. In my house there are three rooms downstairs and three rooms upstairs. We have central heating with radiators in each room which keep our house warm. We also have an open fireplace.

If you come into my house through the back door, you will find yourself in the kitchen. In the kitchen there is a fridge (refrigerator), a freezer, a cooker and cupboards. There is also a freezer under the fridge. We have lots of cupboards and an electric cooker. Our microwave is very quick and easy to use. We wash our things in the washing machine and hang them out in our garden to dry. We wash up the plates in the sink as we don’t have a dishwasher.

Downstairs there is also a lounge. Some people call this room the living-room. In our lounge there is atable with chairs, a settee (i n America I think they call this a sofa - it is a comfy 2-seater chair), t wo comfy chairs, a television, a DVD Player and Video Recorder.
We also have satellite TV. There are some cupboards and a bookcase.

Most houses have a bathroom upstairs but ours is downstairs. In my bathroom there is a toilet, a bath, a sinkwith two taps (one for hot water and one for cold), a shower and a laundry basket. This is where we put our dirty clothes for washing.

The three rooms upstairs are all bedrooms. They all have carpets on the floor, except my room. In my bedroom I have my own computer, a wardrobe - to hang clothes in, cupboards with drawers for other clothes, cupboards for all other stuff like old toys etc. There is also a bookcase for my books and my bed. It is high up as I have my desk underneath it and my computer. I also have my own television.

Outside my house we have a back garden and a front garden. In the back garden there is an area of grass for us to play football on and for my little brother to ride his bike. Mum likes to grow vegetables in the garden and plant flowers.

Welcome to my house!

Lesson 6

Ex.1 My name is Rita Oakleaf and I would like to share with you a couple of funny stories about moving houses. The first one is called Great Flood. My husband's promotion at work meant we had to move a bit farther south. We had been looking for another house since November, but nothing had worked out by the time we sold our house. Since we didn't know when we might find a house, we had to find an apartment that we could rent by the month. I found one though we didn't have much of a choice. The day my husband went to sign the papers, the landlord called and said he had bad news. The entire apartment was flooded! Something went wrong with the toilet and it flooded the entire upstairs, poured down the stairs, and caused the kitchen ceiling to become the kitchen floor. It was very frustrating, but we also had a good laugh. We always try to find something funny in the problem. It helps not to cry.

Good things to come out of this: The most important thing was that we hadn't moved in yet, or it would have ruined all of our stuff. The landlord also knew another landlord who had one apartment left. We had more parking there, the apartment was nicer and it was closer to my family. So, it really was a blessing in disguise.

Lesson 7

Ex.1 A house is made of walls and beams; a home is built with love and dreams.

It takes hands to build a house, but only hearts can build a home.

Ex.2.:

Presenter: If you were starting over in an empty house without any of your accumulated belongings, what would you need to make it feel like home? In other words, what makes a house a home? We asked four young people. This is what they said. Mary

Mary: I've decided that the first thing I would look for would be a big family dining table – big enough for all of us, plus relatives and friends. That's because so many of our special times have been when we've all been together around the table. It's where we giggle and laugh and sing "Happy Birthday to you"; where we celebrate small things such as an 'A' in arithmetic and momentous things like a promotion at work or a college degree; where we soothe one another's hurts; and quiet our worries. And it's where we share our dreams, because when families share their dreams, everyone pitches in to make them come true, and miracles fan out from family dining tables like magic.

Presenter:

Peter: Our home would need an old-fashioned fireplace. I know most people prefer the modern no-sparks, no-smoke gas kind, but we would need the type with burning an old-fashioned fireplace that crackle and glow red and smell of wood smoke. It's where we always gather on bad-weather days to play Monopoly or work on a jigsaw puzzle or just read. It's where we daydream.

And also, there would be an awful emptiness if the books we love were missing from our home, so I'd search for a great big bookcase to hold books. Slowly, we would re-accumulate the books we cherish – from "A Child's Garden of Verses," "The Little Engine that Could," and "Goodnight Moon" to books by Dickens, Twain, Hemingway, and Frost.

Presenter:

Lucy: I'd buy pillows for our sofa. Silly? Probably, but pillows always create that put-your-head-back-and-your-feet-up feeling. Pillows say, "Don't worry, everything will be fine." I'd mix and match them: big red and white checks and blue toile and golden plaids. Lots of them – puffy, fluffy and pretty and very therapeutic.

We would need a yardstick in order to start a new measuring wall – out in the kitchen, probably behind a door, where children are measured, where year after year, and the inches march upward on the wall to show how tall they have become. It's where they stretch with all their might and where futures are fashioned with the words, "When I grow up..."

Presenter:

Steve:

Ever since I was three, I have shared two households. Both were—and remain—vastly different. One belongs to my mother, one to my father, but both are a place I consider home. My father’s cosy apartment remains my haven of peace and quiet, scratched Jimi Hendrix records, really good food and a lot of understanding. My mother’s house is crossword puzzles, paintbrushes and lots of friends. Never quiet but so diverse.
Home is comfort. Comfort is reading in bed. So I would start with a bed and good light above it. That will remind me of my dad’s house. As I became accustomed to the noise of my mum’s house I would like to have a spacious room with sofas and tables where my friends and I will chat, eat and debate.

My home isn’t a singular unit; my home lies between and within two households. A house is where you live—but a home is where your heart is.

Lesson 8

Ex. 1 In the House of upside-down
Cellars top floor, Attic's ground
In the House of upside down
Laughing cries and smiles frown
In the house of upside-down
Found is lost and lost is found

There was an old woman
who lived in a shoe
She had so many children
She didn’t know what to do
She gave them some broth
Without any bread,
She kissed them all gently
And sent them to bed.

They lived
in a house by the sea
he and she.
Where fireflies lit the sky
crickets sang nearby
and gentle waves kissed
the golden sands goodbye.

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