Home
1. Where is your home? Which floor is it?
2. Tell us about your home
3. What do you like and dislike about it?
4. What’s your favourite room or place in your home and why?
5. What do you usually do at home when you have free time?
6. What’s your favourite activity at home?
7. Who usually visits your house? And what do you do with them?
8. What are you planning to buy for your home nowadays?
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EXAMPLE ANSWERS: Home
1. My home is very close to Spoken Cafe Fındıkzade. It is only 400 meters away. It is on the first and second floors. It is a duplex apartment.
2. My home is a duplex, but a small apartment. 2 rooms and one bedroom. We have two balconies on the 1st and 2nd floors, a small kitchen and a spacious living room.
3. I like it because it is in a very central location, on a busy street. ı don’t like the noise. Our street is very busy, and it is always noisy. We can’t rest enough.
4. My favourite room is my living room. Because it has everything I need. And it is very comfortable.
5. Every two days, I watch a film on my projector and watch movies or TV series. I do exercise at the same time. Every two days, I spend my night in my bedroom and read a book.
6. My favourite activity at home is watching films or TV series because we have a huge projector and a good home theatre system. It’s fun to watch things on our movie system.
7. Our friend and teacher, Yaren and my other close friends usually visit us. We eat pizza and watch films together.
8. I am planning to buy a new technology computer these days. My computer is older than 10 years. Sometimes it is very slow for our work tasks.
Watch the video above and discuss what you learned from it during your Spoken Cafe session
How about spending your quarantine days on this cute and quiet island? This island is called “Just Enough Room” because there’s just enough room for a tree, a small yard and a house. Located on the Saint Lawrence River, which crosses the Canada-US border, this tiny island is part of the famous Thousand Islands. Many people want to live in a peaceful place, where there is no traffic, no annoying neighbours and no disturbing noises at night. The Sizeland family built the house here in the 1950s, in hopes of getting some peace and quiet. However, as soon as people found out about the house, the area was constantly visited by tourists and the mass media by boat. So never judge your life; there’s nothing you can do to live in peace and quiet.
READ/SPEAK
Tell us about the best house you have seen in your life. Why did you like it so much?
to stop what you are doing because you do not want to do any more or think you have done enough:
“I’m getting a bit tired now – let’s call it a day.”
LEARN THE IDIOM AND SPEAK
What time do you finish work or school? What do you usually do when you get home after school?