talking about home and house

1. Home is not a house

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 At the end of a long day it is nice to find somewhere
comfortable to sleep. Match the places to stay in the
box with the pictures below. motorhome tent tree
house hut house hotel houseboat caravan
PLACES TO STAY

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 (1) Have you ever stayed in a tent?
 (2) Where is the most interesting place you have
stayed?
 (3) What are the advantages of staying in a motor
home?
 (4) What are the advantages of living on a
houseboat?
 (5) Where is the strangest place you have ever
stayed?
SOME QUESTIONS:

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 I live in a house near the sea. It’s an old house, about
100 years old, and it’s very small. There are two
bedrooms upstairs but no bathroom. The bathroom
is downstairs next to the kitchen and there’s a living
room where there’s a lovely old fireplace. There’s a
garden in front of the house. The garden goes down
to the beach and in spring and summer there are
flowers everywhere. I live alone with my dog, Boxer,
but we have a lot of visitors. My city friends often
stay with me.
MY HOUSE

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 I love my house for many reasons; the garden, the
flowers in summer, the fire in winter, but the best
thing is the view from my bedroom window.

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 I live in a duplex apartment on the 7 th and 8 th floors.
My apartment is not big; it has an internal area of just 74
m² but despite the size I love it. On the lower level we
have a living room, kitchen and a small bathroom.
Upstairs there are two bedrooms and a large bathroom.
Being small my apartment is easy to clean and as the
building has a building manager I do not need to worry
about building maintenance. I love my apartment for
many reasons; the view I have from my window, the
security, the fact I do not have to mow the lawns or weed
the garden, and if I have a problem I can call the building
manager
MY APARTMENT

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 EXERCISE: Write a similar description of your house
or apartment. Where is it? Is it old or new? How
many rooms are there? Is there a garden? Do you
like it?

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 ing is a suffix used to make one of the inflected
forms of English verbs. This verb form is used as a
present participle, as a gerund, and sometimes as an
independent noun or adjective.
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 Spelling:
 Verb + ing Add – ing (most verbs): walk - walking
Drop e and add ing: give - giving Double the final
consonant and add – ing: sit - sitting
GRAMMAR: - ING
FORM -

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 1. Write the – ing form of these verbs.
 (A) Come: ________
 (D) Have: ______
 (G) Run: ________
 (J) Swim:_______
 (B) Do: __________
 (E) Help: ______
 (H) Sell: _________
 (K) Take: _______
 (C) Get: __________
 (F) Love: ______
 (I) Work: _______
 (L) Smoke:______

20.  : argue- stand -pack -worry –travel- find -arrive -get
make –change- hear -order -visit
 Why I am not a Tourist by Roth Norby I don’t like
__________________________________. In fact, I hate
it. I hate __________________________________
suitcases that can never close. I don’t enjoy
___________________________________ long lists of
things To take in case it rains, or doesn’t rain, or
snows. I don’t like airports, I hate
_________________________________________
2. Complete the poem with the
correct form of the following
verbs

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 In long lines at check-in desks, or for your visa I
don’t enjoy ____________________________________,
after two hours of waiting, Your flight’s delayed, or
cancelled, or still in Pisa. I really hate
______________________________ at a foreign airport
at night. And ________________________________
money when you still don’t know the rates. And
______________________________ with the taxi
driver in bad Portuguese or Spanish

22.  And __________________________________ out the
hotel made a mix-up with the dates. And I detest
________________________________ museums that
are either “Closed” Or there are twenty thousand
school kids on a tour And I hate
_________________________________ fish and
getting duck And
_________________________________if the water’s
really pure. And I hate
_______________________________ home to find
someone Forgot to feed the goldfish and they’re
dead. And your Visa card has gone into the red.

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 1. There are _____ interesting museums throughout the country.
 13
 3
 33
 2. The bus fare to the capital is ____ dollars.
 55
 50
 15
 3. This _____ was constructed about ____ years ago.
 405
 415
 450
 4. The ____ for the trip to Europe will cost about _____ dollars.
 780
 718
 708
 5. We drove about ________ miles on our trip.
 1,300
 1,100
 1,200
Listen to the recording and answer the questions.
Then, review the script to this listening activity at
the bottom of the page.

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 6. She ________ on ________ during her _______.
 1,060
 1,006
 1,016
 7. The mountain _______.
 3,017
 3,070
 3,007
 8. A total of ________ visited the _______.
 30,212
 30,222
 13,212
 9. The population __________ two years ago.
 340,819
 314,819
 314,890
 10. Over______ people live in the capitol.
 2,417,513
 2,417,530
 2,470,530

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 How many people live in the three largest cities?
 What is the height of the tallest mountain or point?
 How much does airfare cost to fly from New York City to
the closet airport to your hometown?
 How many years ago was the oldest man-made structure
built (e.g., temple, bridge, castle, wall, road, etc.)?
 What is the total land area of the country in kilometers?
 How many Internet users are there?
 How many airports are there?
 How much in US dollars did your country export in
goods to other countries in a recent year?

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 There are thirteen (13) interesting museums throughout the
country.
 The bus fare to the capital is fifty (50) dollars.
 This beautiful temple was constructed about four hundred fifty
(450) years ago.
 The airfare for the trip to Europe will cost about seven hundred
and eighteen (718) dollars.
 We drove about twelve hundred (1,200) miles on our trip.
 She spent one thousand sixteen (1,016) dollars on souvenirs
during her trip.
 The mountain is approximately three thousand seventy (3,070)
meters tall.
 A total of thirty thousand two hundred and twelve people
(30,212) visited the castle last year.
 The population of this city was three hundred and fourteen
thousand eight hundred nineteen (314,819) two years ago.
 Over two million four hundred and seventy thousand five
hundred thirty (2,470,530) people live in the capital.