Listen to the first part of the text and fill in the table.

What does the person do?
What is their main reason for choosing this type of home?
What adjectives are used to describe the place?
What does he/she do for companionship?
What words would you use to describe the person’s personality?

Listen to the second part of the text and describe the inside of the lighthouse.

Rooms:

Furniture:

 

3. Discuss these questions with your partner:

• Where do you want to live – in a lighthouse or on a narrow boat?

 

• What are the main differences between the two homes?

 

• What kind of people may want to live in these homes?

 

• What kind of people may want to live in a usual home?

 

• How will your friends react if you start to live in an unusual home?

Speaking

What is important for you in a home? Work in pairs and put these criteria in order of importance for you:

· the size – number of bedrooms, etc.

· an outdoor area – balcony, terrace or garden

· nice views

· friendly neighbours

· security

· convenient location – near shops or transport

· privacy

Grammar: comparatives and superlatives

What is the meaning of the underlined words in the sentence?

Change habits, such as smoking less or getting more sleep.

It’s getting worse.

Complete these sentences with an adjective from the box.

difficult ▪ busy ▪ large ▪ expensive ▪ slow ▪ cheap ▪ dry ▪ bad ▪ beautiful

1. A bus is slower than a plane.

2. The weather in Africa is _______________________________in Europe.

3. Life in a town is _____________________________________ life in a village.

4. Wine is ____________________________________________ champagne.

5. Chinese is __________________________________________English.

3. Complete these sentences with the words in brackets. Use as...as or not as...as.

1. Mozart / Beethoven (famous) Mozart is as famous as Beethoven.

2. A church / a cathedral (not big) A church is not as big as a cathedral.

3. January / February (cold)

4. Spain / Portugal (hot)

5. A cat / a dog (not friendly)

6. Italian food / French food (delicious)

7. A bike / a motorbike (not fast)

8. Greek wine / Australian wine (not good)

In pairs, discuss the following questions.

What is the most dangerous situation you have ever been in? What happened?

What is the most interesting place you have been to?

Who is your best friend? Why is he/she your best friend?

Who is the most famous person you have ever met or known?

Vocabulary

House describes a particular type of building while Home is the place where you live and feel that you belong to.

1. Complete the following sentences with house or home.

Most people in Britain live in semi-detached ____.

We’re going to buy Anya a doll’s ____ for Christmas.

The ____ of Parliament in London are visited by 50,000 people each year.

I’ve enjoyed living abroad for the last six years, but it’s time for me to go back ____ now!

We were at ____ in bed when our car was stolen from outside the _____.

These children need a good _____ and we are in a position to give them one.

Work in small groups. Answer these questions.

Have you ever been homesick?

Why are homes important? Do we need them? Why?

 

Speaking

Work in pairs. You and your partner are talking about a photograph of a similar topic. One of you will describe photograph A and the other will describe photograph B. Take turns to tell each other about your photograph.

Plan your speech:

a) What are you going to talk about?

b) What are you going to do if you don't know the English word for something? Don't worry if you don't know what is happening in the photograph. Just describe what you can see.

In pairs, discuss some reasons why people become homeless.

Grammar

Indirect questions

Remember: Yes/no questions + if or whether Do you know my address? I asked her if she knew my address. Do you have a receipt for the apple pie? Mom asked me whether I had a receipt for the apple pie.   Wh- questions: Where are you going? I asked where she was going. Which house did you buy? They asked which house I had bought.