Home Sweet Home

1
Vocabulary • Rooms and parts
of the house
★ 1 Put these words in the correct column.
attic balcony driveway 8
landing patio yard
7
inside the house outside the house
attic

6
★ 2 Complete the sentences with the words from 3
5 4
Exercise 1.
1 Our car’s in the garage! You can park
in the driveway. 2
2 If you want to play ball, go and play
in the !
1
3 All my old toys and books are up
in the .
4 We have a big plant on the ★★ 4 Find the family treasure! Look at the picture.
at the top of the stairs. Complete the text with these words.
5 In summer, we often have lunch out on
the . attic fireplace hallway landing
6 There’s an awesome view of the river from office roof stairs wall
the outside my bedroom.
Go through the 1 hallway to the 2
★★ 3 Put the letters in the correct order to complete at the end. Then go up to the 3
the text. on the second floor. Go left and find the room
with a high ceiling. This is the 4 .
It’s a wonderful old house. The date above the
Inside, you can see a desk with a computer, a
door says 1820. We had to put on a new 1 roof
chair and some books in a bookcase. There’s also
(foro) last year after the winter storms.
a5 in the middle, and in the
The 2 (ginslice) are high, 6
next to that, there’s a small
and some of them are made of wood. There’s
door. It’s not easy to see this door because it
a3 (freeclapi) in each of the
looks just like a painting. Open the door and go
bedrooms, but we don’t actually use them.
up into the 7 . Be careful because
When you go into the house, you go through the
there’s only one small window up there. At one
4
(lalhywa), and the 5
end, there are a lot of old boxes. Under the
(ratsis) are on the left. My mom’s 6 8
, on a shelf above the boxes,
(efocif) is behind them. It’s the room with a lot of
there’s a large envelope. Take it down, open it
photos on the 7 (lawl). Oh, and
and read what’s inside!
the 8
(agrega) has space for two
cars. That’s on the left side of the building. Vocabulary page 104

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 Reading
★ 1 Read the texts quickly. Choose ★ 2 Complete the sentences.
the best option. 1 themansells says her husband has a new job.
The texts are … 2 jenwatts has no problems with her car.
a a leisure guide to the city. 3 benstarkey has a behind the house.
b advertisements from people 4 stellabailey lives near a baseball .
selling their homes. 5 jenwatts often travels by .
c answers to people who 6 benstarkey goes shopping by .
want advice.
★★ 3 Complete the sentences with the correct name.
1 stellabailey can see a nearby park from her home.
2 usually takes the train to Manhattan.
3 and live near some good stores.
4 doesn’t use public transportation very much.
5 doesn’t have any problems with noise.

Internet forum

themansells:

We’re a family of four and we’re looking for a new home in the city. My husband’s going to
work in a new office, and I’m a hairstylist. We have two young children. Any suggestions
for a good area?

jenwatts:

We live in an apartment in Brooklyn, about twenty minutes from Manhattan. There are buses
every fifteen minutes, so we don’t need to use the car every day. Parking isn’t a problem
because the building has an underground garage. The shopping’s good in this area.

benstarkey:

Our family lives in a house in Queens, about half an hour by train from Manhattan.
It’s a quiet area, without much traffic. We have a small front yard, and a backyard
with a patio. The children are sitting out there right now! I only use the car
to go shopping, and I park it in the driveway, so it’s all very convenient.

stellabailey:
A/W <2.22>
We live in a rented apartment in the Bronx,
near Yankee Stadium. At the moment,
people are coming out of a baseball game,
so it’s a little noisy, but it’s not so bad at
night. The stores and restaurants are
good, and we can walk to most places.
Oh, and there’s a nice view of a nearby
park from our balcony, too!

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 Grammar • Present 3
simple and continuous
★ 1 Read the text and choose
the correct options.
He 1 paints / is painting houses
inside and outside. Today he 2
1
2
works / is working in an
apartment. First, he 3 puts / 4 5
is putting all the furniture in
the middle of the room.
Then he 4 covers / is covering
the furniture with a big cloth
before he 5 starts / is starting
work. At the moment, he
6
paints / is painting the edges
around the ceiling. ★★ 3 Look at the pictures and write sentences.
1 work / café / serve / coffee
★ 2 Put the words in the correct He works in a café, and now he’s serving coffee.
order. 2 live / small town / visit / city
1 Tom / Friday / goes / on /
always / a / night / out 3 sell / fish / talk / phone
Tom always goes out on
a Friday night. 4 repair / cars / take / break
2 housework / He / doesn’t /
with / help / the / usually 5 drive / taxi / take passenger / station

3 weekend / you / What / do / ★★ 4 Complete the conversation with the Present simple or
on / do / normally / the / ? Present continuous form of the verbs.
A Mike, is that you? Are you busy?
M Yes! (I/make) 1 I’m making dinner in the kitchen.
4 music / to / Elena’s / MP3 / A You in the kitchen? But (you/not normally/cook) 2
player / her / listening / on ! Why (you/cook) 3 today?
M Because my (girlfriend/come over) 4

for dinner.
5 reading / bus / on / isn’t / a / A So is it Italian food?
magazine / She / the M No, it isn’t. (We/only/have) 5
Italian food in restaurants. This is a special Indian meal.
A (you/mean) 6 Indian from India?
6 now / are / What / doing / M Yes, of course!
you / ? A But isn’t that very spicy food?
M Often, yes, but (it/not always/have to) 7
be hot!
A OK! Anyway, what’s that funny noise I can hear?
M Oh no! The (meat/burn) 8
in the pot! That’s what happens when I talk too much
on the phone!

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 ★★ 5 Make questions for the
Vocabulary • Furniture and household objects
underlined answers. ★ 1 Label the numbered objects in the picture.
1 The children are playing
1 closet 3 2
in the attic.
Where are the children
4
playing?
2 Right now, we’re having
a party in the garage!

3 My sister’s studying abroad 6

this year.
7 5

4 Tom’s talking to a friend ★ 2 Complete the sentences with the words from Exercise 1.
right now. 1 The rug is on the floor.
2 In front of the left wall, you can see a .
3 In the corner of the room, there’s an
5 I’m waiting for a bus. with on it.
4 Near the armchair, you can see a window with a .
5 On the back wall, there’s a with
6 My dad mows the lawn a above it.
every two weeks.
★ 3 Match these words to the definitions (1–6).
alarm clock bookcase curtains comforter pillow vase
7 We clean the house in
the spring. 1 We normally use two of these to cover a window. curtains
2 We use this to wake up on time in the morning.
3 We use this to keep warm in bed.
8 Yes, we do. We have a 4 We usually put flowers in one of these.
fireplace in the living room. 5 We use this in bed for our head.
6 We keep books and magazines in this.

9 Kevin usually celebrates his ★★ 4 Put the letters in the correct order to complete the text.
birthday in the basement! This apartment’s not bad! It has a big 1 closet (tesloc) for
my clothes, and there’s a 2 (koboseca) in the
living room. I need that for my books because this month I’m
taking a computer science course. And there’s a desk but no
3
(cramhira), but I can bring one from home.
What else? There’s a 4 (rorimr) in the bathroom,
but I don’t see any 5 (stranuci) on the window,
so maybe I can ask my mom to buy some. I don’t like all those
6
(nisshuco) on the sofa—they can go in the
closet in the bedroom. The bed’s OK, but I’ll bring my own
7
(remoctorf) and a couple of 8
(lowlips) because I’m more comfortable that way.

Grammar Reference pages 86–87 Vocabulary page 104

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 Chatroom Describing a place

Speaking and Listening

★ 1 Match the questions (1–6) to ★★ 3 Complete the conversation with these phrases. Then listen
4 the answers (a–f). Then listen 5 and check.
and check.
a little small Do you mean it like kind of strange
1 What’s your school like? d pretty far really wonderful the house like very big
2 What’s your bedroom like?
3 What’s that new
shopping mall like? Olga Hey, Tammi! How are you? I haven’t seen you for a while!
4 What’s your vacation Tammi Hi, Olga! I’m just visiting and doing some shopping.
home like? Olga 1
Do you mean you don’t live here anymore?
5 What’s Paula’s hometown Tammi Well, we have a new house on the coast, but I still come
to visit my grandparents.
like?
6 What’s that new café on Olga That’s very good news! What’s 2 ?
Osmond Street like? Tammi It’s not 3 , just two floors, but it’s in a really
nice area.
a It’s very modern. It has three Olga I’m sure! And does it have ocean views?
floors and a café on the roof. Tammi Yes. You can see 4 from the balcony upstairs.
b It’s a little small, but they And it has a swimming pool too, but it’s 5 .
have really good music. Olga And what about the town? What’s 6
?
c It’s pretty old, it’s on the tenth Tammi Well, the house is 7 because it’s five minutes
floor, and it has great views. from the beach. But the town is 8 , and my
d It’s really big, with more than brothers and I miss our friends.
a thousand students.
e It’s very big and really busy,
with a lot of stores and traffic. ★ 4 Listen to the conversation in Exercise 3 again.
f It’s pretty small, but very 5 Choose the correct options.
comfortable, and I have all 1 Olga and Tammi know / don’t know each other.
my photos on the wall. 2 Tammi lives / doesn’t live with her grandparents.
3 Tammi likes the location / size of the house.
★ 2 Put the conversation in the
4 The balcony has good / bad views.
correct order.
5 The house is far from / near the beach.
a And what’s your 6 The children are very happy / a little uncomfortable
room like? in the new town.
b So where are you
living now? 1 ★★ 5 Answer the questions about yourself.
c Are you happy with 1 What’s your city or town like?
it then? 2 What’s your school like?
d It’s very noisy and a little 3 What’s your street like?
strange. 4 What’s your home like?
e What’s the city like? 5 What’s your room like?
f Yes, but it’s a long way
from downtown!
g In a rented room in
the city.
h Well, it’s really cheap
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 Grammar • Verb + -ing
★ 1 Complete the text with the ★★ 3 Write sentences.
correct form of these verbs. A Do you like living in Athens?
be get go listen B I / enjoy / live / a big city
rent see watch
1
I enjoy living in a big city.
A And what about the weather?
Living here is very easy. We B I / love / sit / outside in the sun!
enjoy 1 seeing the sunshine 2

almost every day, and we love A And the traffic?

2
able to B I / not stand / drive / with so many cars / in the streets!
sit outside for meals. We 3

also like 3
A So how do you get around the city?
for long walks in the B I / like / ride / my bicycle!
countryside, which is close 4

to our apartment. And we A What about the food?

don’t mind 4 B I / not mind / try / new foods!
wet when it rains, because 5

it doesn’t rain very often. As A And the language?

for going out at night, there B I / prefer / speak / English!
are several movie theaters, 6

although we sometimes prefer Greek is very difficult for me!

5
a DVD at
home. There’s a theater too, ★★ 4 Write sentences. Use the information in the table.
although we don’t go very
often. I can’t stand
6
musicals and loves likes/enjoys doesn’t hates/
I don’t like 7 to mind can’t stand
classical music either!
Justin
★ 2 Put the words in the correct 1 play 2 take the 3 wash 4 do
order. video dog for the car housework
games a walk
1 apartment / I / stand /
ground / living / in / an /
Leonor
on / the / can’t / floor 5 get up 6 text 7 help her 8 clean the
I can’t stand living in an late on the on her sister bathrooom
apartment on the ground weekend cell with her
floor. phone homework
2 with / sleeping / on / She /
the / light / prefers 1 Justin loves playing video games.
2
3
3 watching / all / Grandma / 4
TV / day / enjoys 5
6
7
4 housework / with / brother / 8
hates / helping / the / My
Grammar Reference pages 86– 87

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 Reading Brain Trainer

1 Read the texts quickly. Match the text types (1–3) Underline these words in
to the texts (A–C). the texts in Exercise 1:
ideal
1 a postcard for rent
2 a tourist advertisement going out
3 an offer of accommodation
Now do Exercise 2.

Fuengirola
A
Welcome to Fuengirola in
2 Complete the sentences.
the heart of the Costa del
Sol, an ideal vacation 1 Fuengirola has a lot of older
destination! In winter, it’s a visitors in winter.
in the heart of the quiet town of 72,000 2 In summer, 250,000
Costa del Sol inhabitants, with very fresh people
seafood and interesting
places to visit. It’s ideal for
in Fuengirola.
older people. In summer, 3 people can
it’s a fantastic place for sleep in the apartment.
sun, sand and sea, with a 4 The apartment has an
population of 250,000 garage.
people! It’s very popular 5 Linda and her friends don’t
with families and young
people because there is so
much time
much to see and do. With in the house.
shopping, restaurants, 6 Linda go to
clubs, parks and a zoo—it the beach in the afternoon.
has nearly everything!

B Listening
VACATION APARTMENT FOR RENT in Fuengirola, 1 Listen to the conversation and
southern Spain. Large apartment available for July and August. 6 decide who is talking.
Three bedrooms, two bathrooms, kitchen and living room.
Complete with balcony, underground garage and elevator. Fully 1 a brother and sister
furnished with beds, a sofa, armchairs and a TV. The kitchen’s a 2 two friends
little small, but most visitors eat out. For more information, please 3 two office workers
email [email protected].
2 Listen again. Choose
6 the correct options.
Dear Mom and Dad,
C beach! The house we’re 1 The boy prefers the room
Here we are, finally at the ck here
all, but we only come ba with / without the balcony.
sharing with friends is sm ggie
fore going out again. Ma 2 The girl likes / doesn’t like
to shower and change be so she ’s doing
the beach all day, the room with the closet.
says she hates sitting on joy s
doing nothing, so he en 3 The second room has a
a lot of sports. Tom loves dI
n going out at night. An
lying on the beach and the
bookcase / desk.
to
rything, so I read, listen
prefer doing a little of eve t relax !
4 The girl would like to have
shopping … and jus
music, go swimming, go the the dresser / mirror.
for me, so I don’t go to
The weather’s a little hot ul time! 5 The boy wants a
but I’m having a wonderf
beach in the afternoon, dresser / desk.
Love,
Linda

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 Writing • A description of a room
1 Rewrite the sentences. Use the linking words. 3 Read the room description again. Put these
1 I like playing in the attic. I like playing details in the correct section in column A.
in the basement. (and) bright lie on the bed
I like playing in the attic and the basement. papers in the drawers play video games
2 We enjoy sitting on the balcony. We like sitting posters on the wall pretty big
on the patio. (also)

A Picture room B My dream room

3 The cat loves hiding behind the armchairs. He’s My dream room
afraid of going down to the basement. (but) Introduction
has …
Furniture posters on
There is/are …
4 That’s his favorite pillow. He doesn’t like using and walls the wall
a comforter. (however)
Activities I can …

5 We like having pillow fights. We like playing

4 Think of your dream room. Write phrases about it
with cushions. (too)
in column B.

5 Write a description of your dream room. Use your

6 I love lying on the floor to read. Sheena loves
ideas and information from Exercises 3 and 4.
looking at the photos on the walls. (and)

2 Look at the picture. Read the text.

Correct four mistakes in the text.
My dream room looks like this. It’s pretty
big and bright, and I can organize it the
way I want.
The best things in the room are the bed with
its comforter and the rug next to it. Opposite
the bed is a bookcase with a TV on one of
the shelves. On the wall above the bed there
are posters of my favorite musicians and
artists. There’s a desk in the corner under a
window. When I need to study, I just close
the blind. On the wall, to the left of the
window, there’s a board for photos and
notes. My papers and school stuff go in the
drawers on the right of the desk.
I can lie on the bed listening to music.
However, I also need time at my desk.
When friends visit, we can play games on
the TV, too.

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