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3.2

Writing
b) Read the texts again. Which house: A
or B ... 5 Write a short text describing your house and

1 has got four storeys? favourite room (50 words). Read it to the
2 has got a fireplace? class.
3 is similar to a house in a TV show? My house is … . It has got … (rooms) … . My favourite
4 has got many bathrooms? room is … . There is … but there isn’t … .
5 has got the most bedrooms?
6 is near the sea? (Learners’ support: see Workbook pp. PS9-PS10)
7 hasn’t got a garden?
6 PRESENTATION SKILLS Watch the VIDEO .
8 is also a person’s place of work?
Read the texts in Ex. 3 again. Choose one
house and make notes. Use your notes to
c) Which house would/wouldn’t you present the house and your house to the class.
like to live in? Why?
DID
DID You
DID
DID You
You
Speaking Know
Know
Know
4 Compare the two houses. In the UK there are terraced, detached and
semi-detached houses. 20% of homes in the UK
The Ball House is in Brazil. The Flintstones House is in
are flats. Some English people live in cottages
the USA. etc
or bungalows in the countryside. 15,000
people live in houseboats on canals.
Check these words
spaceship, architect, storey, inside, outside, slide,
go from top to bottom, office, located, look like,
programme, cartoon, huge, view, ocean, below

B
The Flintstones House

Located in Malibu, USA is the Flintstones House. It looks like the
one in the Hanna-Barbera TV programme. It has got one bedroom,
two bathrooms and a living room with a fireplace. Everything looks
like it’s from the cartoon. It has also got a huge garden and views
of the ocean below. It’s a yabba-dabba doo* house!

* Yabba-dabba doo is a catchphrase of Fred Flintstone; he says it when he’s happy.

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