Listen This Way Book 2 Unit 3 - 文本及答案

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Listen This Way (Book 2)

Unit 3 A Sweet, Sweet Home

Part I Getting ready A. Words & phrases

1. foldaway 2. blind 3. detached 4. estate 5. sink

6. appliance 7. study 8. furnish 9. tile 10. window pane B. Fill in suitable numbers in the plane figure of the flat. A list of furniture items: 1. Foldaway double bed and mattress

2. Coffee table 3. Refrigerator 4. Bathroom

5. Fitted wardrobe 6. Electric cooker 7. Sofa 8. Tumble dryer Tapescript:

House agent: …right, if you’d just come this way.

Woman: Thank you. Man: Yes.

House agent: er… on the right here we have the …er… the bathroom, which as you

can see is fully… fitted. If we just move forward now, we…er…come into the er… main… main bed-sitting room here. And… er… on the left here are dining room table and chairs.

Woman: Oh yes. Man: Yes.

House agent: And er… straight ahead of us…um… foldaway double bed and

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mattress, which I think you’ll agree is quite a novel idea.

Man: Oh yes.

House agent: And then… um… to… Woman: Behind the armchair.

House agent: Yes, behind the armchair. To our right, um… in the corner there, a fitted

wardrobe. And another one on my left here.

Woman: On either side of the bed?

House agent: Yes, that’s right. That’s right, so you can put all you … er… night attire

or what…whatever you like in there.

Man: Yes, that’s good.

House agent: (facing the door) Then, there…the…we have the sofa here…er…in

front of the…um…the window.

Man: Oh yes.

House agent: Er… so there’s plenty of light coming through into the room and as you

can see there’s a nice view through the windows there.

Woman: No curtains, though.

House agent: No curtains, but we’ve got roller blinds. Woman: Oh.

House agent: Yes, they’re nice and straight forward. No problems about that---- don’t

have to wash them of course. And… um… on the left of the… er … sofa there, you can see nice coffee tables.

House agent: If… if we move straight a…straight ahead, actually, into the…er…

the kitchen you can see that um…on my left here we’ve got a

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washing machine, tumble dryer and…um… electric cooker…

Woman: Oh yes. Man: Mmm.

House agent: All as you can see to the most modern designs. And there um…on the

other side of the kitchen…um… refrigerator there in the…in the corner.

Man: Oh, yeah, yes.

Woman: Oh what a nice little cubbyhole! Yes, very neat.

House agent: Yes. Well… um… I don’t know whether you’ve got any questions.

That’s it of course.

Woman: Well, could… could we perhaps see the bathroom, because we…we

didn’t see that?

House agent: Ok, yes, yes,. Let’s…um…let’s go on out of here and …um…end up in

the bathroom…

Part II The dream house Tapescript:

1. My dream house would be a canal boat. I’d like to wake up every morning and see the water. Erm, I’d paint it bright red, and it would have a little roof-garden for all my pot-plants.

2. My ideal house would be modern, ermm, it would be made of bricks, and it would have white pillars outside the front door, and it would be detached… oh yes, it would have a garage.

3. My ideal home would be to live in a cottage in a small village by the sea. Er, somewhere like Cornwall, so it’s unspoilt and there are cliffs and trees around.

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4. I think if I could have any sort of house, I’d like one of those white-walled villas in Spain. (It’d) Be marvelous to be able to just fall out of bed and into the sea first thing in the morning. (It’d) Be absolutely great. All that heat. Marvelous.

5. I’ve always wanted to live in a really big house in the country, a big family house with, erm… at least two hundred years old, I think, with a big garden, and best of all I’d like to have a dry-stone wall around the garden. I’ve always loved dry-stone. 6. D’you know, I may sound daft but what I’ve always wanted to do is live somewhere totally isolated, preferably somewhere enormous like a castle or something, you know, right out in… by the sea or even sort off in a little island, on an island, on an island, you know, out a sea, where you have to get there by a boat or something, where it’s cut off at high tide. I think it’d be really great. Questions:

1. According to the first speaker, in what color would her dream house be painted? 2. Where would she put all her pot-plants?

3. in the second speaker’s opinion, what would there be outside the front door of his ideal house?

4. What would there be around the third speaker’s ideal home?

5. When the fourth speaker got up in the morning, what would he do first? 6. What is Spain famous for?

7. According to the fifth speaker, what would she like to have around the garden of her dream house?

8. How should one get to the last speaker’s ideal house? Part III Flat hunting

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