In pairs, roleplay the following conversations. Suggest two ways in which you can find a flat in Ukraine.

In pairs, roleplay the following conversations. Suggest two ways in which you can find a flat in Ukraine.

Do you think that the kinds of place where students live or the ways in which they find somewhere to live are very different in your country from those in England.

IN A FLAT AGENCY

£ve: Good morning.

Woman: Good morning. Can 1 help you?

Eve: 1 am looking for a cheap single room.

Woman: For yourself?

Eve: Yes.

Woman: Let me see. I've got one in Acton Town.

Eve: How much is it?
Woman: Its £30 a week.
Eve: Fine. Could 1 see it?

Woman: Yes. That's the address and telephone number. Here you are.
Eve: Thank you. Goodbye!

Woman: Goodbye!

EVE IS PHONING ABOUT A ROOM

Woman: Hallo!

Eve: Hallo! 1 am calling about the room. Could you tell me about it
please?

Woman: Well, it's quite big and well furnished.

Eve: Are there any cooking facilities?

Woman: Yes, of course. There is a separate kitchen and a bathroom.

Eve: Is the room warm?

Woman: The central heating works very well.

Eve: And how much is the rent?

Woman: If s £30 a week, payable in advance.

Eve: Could 1 have a look at the room now?

Woman: Yes, you may come and see it now.

Eve: All right then. See you in ten or fifteen minutes.

I. Look at the title and imagine what the text may be about Write a few sentences that you expect to find.

П. People who work often say that students have an easy time. Do you agree?

1П. Here is a list of the tasks done by a woman.

washing up hoovering the carpets

laying the table dusting the furniture

clearing away washing clothes

cleaning up ironing clothes

making the beds doing the shopping

sweeping the living room scrubbing the kitchen

Say which two you would choose if you were obliged to do them every day

for a week. Give reasons for your choice. Another student disagrees with

your choice and says why.

Text

1 am 20 but I feel much older than most other people of my age. 1 am a student but 1 also have to take care of my younger brother who is still at school.

I usually get up at about a quarter to seven, which is too late, and then 1 end up in a mad rush! For breakfast my younger brother has two pieces of toast and a cup of tea and in the meantime 1 get washed and comb my hair. Then, while 1 am pleading with him to brush his teeth, he is busy doing the homework he did not do and did not want to do the night before.

Formerly 1 used to wear make up but since my brother has begun to go to school, 1 do not have time to put on make-up any-more. Of course 1 don't switch on the radio and don't do my morning exercises to music. 1 have no time to air the room either.

On Mondays, Thursdays and Fridays my classes start at half past eight and on Tuesdays and Wednesdays at half past nine. The half past eight days are absolutely terrible because my brother leaves for school at a quarter to eight, a neighbour takes him to school. I fetch him back from school with the neighbour's children - we have a rotation system.

It usually takes me about 25 minutes to get to the university. I try hard to be punctual, so from time to time when I am late, I have to take a taxi, because 1 would not like to be accused of missing classes. At half past eleven we have a

lunch break. 1 go down to the canteen to get something to eat because in the morning, I'll be lucky if I manage to drink a mug of hot biack coffee. In the canteen, as a rule, I have a sweet bun and a glass of milk or yoghurt.

My classes last till two o'clock. The way back home always seems to me longer then the way from my house to the university. It may be because 1 am tired by then. It usually takes me at least half an hour to get home. When I come home I wash up the breakfast dishes which 1 had left in the morning rush, then I make the beds if I did not have time to make them in the morning, take out the wash and hang it to dry. I have got a washing - machine, I leave it running when 1 go to my classes. Then I start cooking dinner.

Sometimes 1 am not organised enough to have the food ready for the evening meai and it means that 1 have to go shopping firstj

1 also pick up my brother from school at four, when he does not have a swimming class or chess club. Then 1 zoom off to the library to borrow books or read them on the spot to prepare for the next day classes.

As 1 do not want to become a hunchback, because of my sedentary lifestyle, I always try to squeeze some physical exercises into my busy schedule, that really helps me to keep fit.

After my supper, which is usually at about half past six, 1 go either to the swimming pool or to gym. After that I come back home, have a shower, drink a glass of apple juice and go back to my studying, very often till about midnight. Just before going to bed, I like to drink a mug of warm milk with honey or a cup of mint tea. They say it helps you sleep well. Otherwise, I sometimes spend a night turning and tossing and do not get a wink of sleep. Then I cannot function well the following morning and 1 really have to be active and full of energy to get through in my busy life.

qjS Vocabulary A

get up — встати (з лпжка)

end up — закшчуватися

rush [гл|] - метушня, nocnix

mad rush [msd гл|] - скажена метушня

in the meantime [mi:n taim] - тим часом

plead with [pli:d] — настирливо i багаторазово просити про щось to brash [Ьгл!] - чистити

a brash - щггка (hairbrush, tooth-brush, nail-brush, clothes-brush, scrub-brush) make-up [meik лр] - маюяж switch on [switj] - BBiMKHyra

fetch [fetj] - m'ra i привести punctual I'pAJjktfudl] - точний, пунктуальний fo be accused [a'kju.'zdj — бути звинуваченим manage [ 'mxmdZ]—тут: ухитрятся зробити що-небудь, викроУти час щоби

зробити що-небудь

mug [шлд] — чашка to be tired [taiadj - бути стомленим wash up [wo/ лр] - мити посуд make the bed-застежтилжко zoom [zu:m] — рухатись душ швидко to borrow [borouj - позичити on the spot— негайно hunchback [Ълпщэжк] - горбатий

sedentary lifestyle ['sedntri 'Jajfstari] - сидячий cnoci6 жнття to squeeze [skwi:z] — втиснути schedule f'/edju.'lj - розклад to keep-fit — пщтримувати фгзтпу форму to have a shower [Jaua(rj] - прийняти душ turning and tossing ['ternirj an 'tosirjj - стурбовано метушитися not to get a wink of sleep — не заснути т на хвнлину to get through - лодолати труднощ!

Vocabulary В

wash up the plates - мити посуд

Jay the table - накритя на ст/л

clear away the dishes — прибрати г\ столу

sweep the гоот-ш'дмггати юмнату

scrub the floor-мити, чистити т'длогу (особливо щтсою, милом i водою)

a vacuum cleaner, Hoover - пилосос

wallpaper the bedroom - оклегги шпалерами спальню hoover the carpet — чистити килим лилососом rug - килим, плед

dust the furniture - чистити меблг' (витирати пил)

wash clothes - прати

iron clothes — прасувати

do the shopping - робиги покупки

empty the rubbish, empty the dustbin - виносити смгття

spare time — втьний час

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