Solutions Unit 4. Home

1. Listen and choose the correct answers.

   What will Jenny miss most about her old home?

Listen and choose the correct answers.

What can you do at Chedworth Roman Villa?

Listen and choose the correct answers.

Who is the speaker?

Listen and choose the correct answers.

What are the speakers doing?

Listen and choose the correct answers.

Which rooms have a great view of the sea?

Read the texts and match them with statements 1−5. There is one text which matches two statements.

A Girl On the Move, by Sally Coldwell

Girl On the Move is an emotional novel about the life of Destiny Jones. Destiny and her parents live in a mobile home, and they move around the country, looking for work. But many people don’t want ‘travellers’ to move into their village or onto their farm. One day, Destiny meets a boy, and for the first time, she begins to question her life on the road. What would it be like if she could stay in one place? Soon, Destiny begins to dream of a better, more ordinary life. But her parents and a local farmer have different ideas.

B Home Maker: All the Secrets, by Fiona and Scott Bradley

Following the highly-successful TV series Home Maker, husband and wife team Fiona and Scott Bradley have found time to produce a great book. Just like the TV series, the book is full of useful, easy-to-follow ideas, and simple building projects. Learn how to repair and decorate old furniture, how to change your garage into the brightest, most comfortable room in your house and many more great ideas. So if you would like a home to be proud of, this is the book for you.

C The History of your Home, by Michael Fossepath

The History of your Home is full of interesting – and sometimes crazy – facts about houses in Britain. Did you know that a thousand years ago, most houses in Britain had only one room? People cooked, ate and slept in it. There was no privacy at all, and no bathroom either. If you wanted to wash, you went to a bath house in the city – or jumped in the local river! Fossepath’s amusing book also looks at how houses have changed the English language. For example, we say ‘full board’ to talk about a hotel room with meals because the earliest dining tables were actually ‘boards’ − pieces of wood to put on your knees.

D The House of Broken Lives, by Tamara Vale

When Josh and Katie Alder see a beautiful house for sale in Pacific Grove, they buy it immediately. It might be a little dilapidated, but it would look much better if they painted it and tidied the garden. And after all, it’s a big house with a great view, at a very good price. But soon after buying the house, they learn the shocking truth about what happened there one hot August night in 1992. They also begin to hear strange sounds upstairs. Someone − or something − is living in their house. And it wishes they would leave.

In this book, you can read about

1. 1 easy ways to make things.

2. 2 how some words entered the English language.

3. 3 frightening events in a house.

4. 4 the life of a teenage girl.

5. 5 how to change a place in your home.

Match the quotes with the words below.

fridge lamp pillow rubbish dump shipping containers skyscraper

1. Can you give me one of those to put my head on?

2. We don’t need any of this stuff and it’s old and broken.

3. I can’t see anything in the dark − can you switch it on again?

4. I’ve just had a look inside, and there’s no milk.

5. Look − that’s the tallest building in New York.

6. People used to transport products in these, but now we’re using them to make a house.

Write the sentences. Use comparative forms or the second conditional.

1. Jess / play / her music / more / quiet / in the evenings.

2. we / miss / living in this apartment / if / we / sell it.

3. Claire / work / hard / than / anyone else in the class.

4. Kelly / give / a lot of money to her friends / if / she / win / the lottery.

5. I / not / go / to bed this early / if / I / not / be really tired.

6. the near / a / house / be / to the city centre / the / expensive / it / be to buy.

7. if / we / build / an extension on this house / we / lose / half of the garden.