1. SPEAKING – What do you miss when you are away from home?
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2 Study Active Reading below and answer the questions about the text on page 19.
ACTIVE READING | Predicting: القراءة النشطة / التوقع
Before you read, look at the title and the photos. This can help you guess what the text is about.
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3. Read the text on page 19 and answer the questions:
1. According to the author, what do people usually do in the living room?
Answer:
→ People relax in the living room.
(Line 9: "people can eat in the kitchen, sleep in the bedrooms, wash in the bathroom and relax in the living room.")
2.Where does Huda like to be in her house?
Answer:
→ In her bedroom.
(Line 11: "It has all my stuff in it and I love it.")
3.Which is Huda’s father’s favourite place in the house?
Answer:
→ The living room.
(Line 12: "My dad loves sitting in the comfortable armchair in the living room.")
4.Why is the ironing in Huda’s sister’s room?
Answer:
→ Because her sister is away at university.
(Line 15: "My sister is away at university, so her bedroom is the room for ironing.")
5.Who usually makes the meals in Huda’s house?
Answer:
→ Her mum.
(Line 16: "And my mum can cook really well, so she’s usually in the kitchen.")
6.What objects does Huda miss when she’s not at home?
Answer:
→ Her games, books, and photographs.
(Line 18: "Of course, I miss all my games, my books and my photographs.")
7.When is Huda’s house noisy?
Answer:
→ In the morning before work and school, and in the evening.
(Line 20: "Our house is noisy in the morning before work and school..." and Line 22: "Then, in the evening, there is the fantastic smell of my mum’s cooking.")
4 Work in pairs. Look at the adjectives highlighted in the text and try to work out their meaning. Then match them with the opposites in the table.
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Adjective |
Opposite |
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1. traditional |
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2. empty |
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3. uncomfortable |
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4. small |
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5. quiet |
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6. same |
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7. terrible |
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8. normal |
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9. light |
Answers:
1 modern 2 full 3 comfortable 4 big 5 noisy 6 different 7 fantastic 8 special 9 dark
5 Complete the text with adjectives from Exercise 4.
I live in an apartment in Amman. In Amman, it’s ¹normal to live in an apartment. There are only two bedrooms, but it’s really ²__________ because it’s on the top floor where it’s often sunny. It’s also very ³__________ because we’re right in the city centre, where you can hear traffic all the time and the streets are always ⁴__________ of people. It’s quite a ⁵__________ home, not like my grandparents’ traditional house in the country.
Answers:
2 light 3 noisy 4 full 5 modern
6 REFLECT | Society In pairs, answer the questions.
What makes a good neighbour? Are you one?
What about your neighbours?
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