Business English 1 Lesson 15: Talking about your home

Size: px

Start display at page:

Download "Business English 1 Lesson 15: Talking about your home"

Junior McCoy
5 years ago
Views:

1 Business English 1 Lesson 15: Talking about your home Unit 5.3. Business Start-up 1, by Mark Ibbotson and Bryan Stephens, Cambridge Univ. Press, 2009.

Is that expensive? 4. What rooms are there? 2 Property B 1.

2 1.A Read the adverts and answer the questions. Property A 1. Where is the apartment/house? 2. How much does it cost? 3. Is that expensive? 4. What rooms are there? 2 Property B 1. Where is the apartment/house? 2. How much does it cost? 3. Is that expensive? 4. What rooms are there?

3 1.B Identify the following pictures

4 2.A Read the adverts again. Underline the correct adjectives 1.The apartment block is modern/old. 2.The apartments are in a low/high building. 3.The house is old/new. 4.The living room in the house is big/small. 5.The kitchen in the kitchen is old/new. 6.There s a nice/horrible view from the garden of the house. 7.It s hot/cold in Brisbane. 8.The house is cheap/expensive. 4

5 2.B Find adjective in adverts with similar meaning. 1.new 2.big 3.nice GRAMMAR 5 Adjectives Adjectives go before the noun they describe (or after the verb be) It s a new computer. This computer is new. Adjectives have only one form for singular and plural It s a big house with a small garden. They are big houses with small gardens.

6 GRAMMAR We use quite and very before an adjective to describe something in more detail. very/quite big His office is not very big very/quite small We can also use really and fairly in this way. This meeting is really important. (= very) It s fairly expensive (=quite) 6 2.C Vocabulary Practice. Write the opposites of the adjectives. 1. hot 4. cheap 2. new 5. high 3. nice 6. small

7 7 3.A Read the article Hot Property in Australia It has 36,000 km of coast. There are 7.6 million km² of land. Australia is big. Very big. But the population of 18 million is very small for a continent. With just two people per square kilometer, does this mean Australian property is cheap? Not exactly. A large percentage of Australians live in a small number of big cities on the south-east coast. The large population there means homes are quite expensive (the really hot property is in Sydney). In parts of Western Australia, the opposite is true. A very small population means very low property prices. For the price of a square meter in Sydney you can buy a square kilometer near the Great Victoria Desert. Hot property of a different kind!

8 3.B Answer the questions from the article above. 1.What does hot property mean? 2.How many people live in Australia? 3.Where do most people live? 4.Where is property quite expensive? 5.Where are property prices very low? 6.What does m and km stand for? 7.What does the writer mean hot property of a different kind? 8

9 3.C Listen to a man talking to a colleague about his home. 1. The house is quite/very small/big. 2. The garden is quite/very small/big. 3. The house is quite/very old/modern. 4. Property is quite/very cheap/expensive. 9 3.D Grammar Practice. Make a sentences. Use very or quite and the adjectives. 1. The house has nine bedrooms and three bathrooms. (big) 2. The building has six floors. (high) 3. My apartment has one bedroom and a living room. (small) 4. My kitchen is 40 m². (large) 5. The corridor is 7 m. (long)

10 3.E Communication Practice. Create a conversation with your tutor describing your house using the details below. Switch roles. House A. Toronto very modern 35 th floor apartment 180m² 3 bedrooms 10 Questions to ask: city: house/apartment floor quite/very old/modern m² bedrooms

11 House B. 30 km from Madrid small swimming pool garden: 3,500m² house 3 floors 6 bedrooms Questions to ask: location: km from house/apartment bedrooms floors garden: m² swimming pool: big/small 11

12 3.F Talk about property. 1.Are property prices high? 2.In what cities/regions is property expensive/cheap? 3.In what parts of your town/region is property expensive/cheap? Useful Language 12 I live in a house/a apartment It s kilometers from The house/ apartment is quite/very big/large/small. It s square meters. It s old/modern. It s quite/very nice. It has bedrooms. It has a big/small garden. Is property expensive in your county? In prices are quite/very high, but in

13 Thank you! See you next class!

Types of housing Tutor Resources for the AMEP Housing Beginner

Types of housing Tutor Resources for the AMEP Housing Beginner Types of hou using Housing Beginner This work is copyright. You may download, display, print and reproduce this material in unaltered form only (retaining this notice) for your personal, non commercial