Exercise 1. Read the text

‘I’m sorry, Joe’, Mrs. Thompson said, ‘I’m forgetting my duties. I’ll show you your room’. My room at Eagle Road was the first room of my own in the real sense of the word.

Following Mrs. Thompson into my room, I was moving into a different world. ‘It is marvelous’, I said. I looked at it with delight: wallpaper vertically striped in beige and silver, a bay window extending for almost the whole length of the room, a divan bed that looked like a bed, two armchairs and a dressing-table, a wardrobe and a writing-table all in the same pale satiny wood. On the cream painted bookcase there was a bowl of anemones and there was a fire burning in the grate, leaving an aromatic smell, faintly acid and faintly flower-like, which I knew but couldn’t quite place.

‘Applewood’, Mrs. Thompson said. ‘There is an electric fire, but I thought a real one would be more cheerful on a miserable day like this’.

There were three small pictures hanging on the far wall.

‘Room on the Top’ after John Braine

marvelous – изумительный, удивительный

with delight – с восхищением, восторгом

wallpaper - обои

striped - полосатый

in beige [bei ] – в бежевых тонах

a bay window – эркер

length – длина

to look like – выглядеть, быть похожим на

a dressing-table – туалетный столик

a wardrobe – шкаф

pale satiny wood – бледно-атласное дерево

cream painted – покрашенный в кремовый цвет

а bookcase – шкаф

a bowl – кубок, чаша, ваза, миска

in the grate – на решетке

faintly – слегка

flower-like – цветочный

to place – определять, размещать

cheerful – бодрый, веселый

miserable – жалкий, несчастный,

Why not to give a description of your room, your favourite room in your flat or house, the room you’ve rented or rented long ago when you were a student.

Exercise 2. Translate into English and reproduce.

· Я слышал, вы собираетесь переезжать на новую квартиру.

· Совершенно верно. One of these days we’ll move to a three-room apartment with all conveniences.

· На каком этаже ваша квартира?

· It’s on the seventh floor of a high-rise house.

· Есть ли в доме лифт?

· There are three lifts that work round o’clock.

· Мусоропровод в квартире?

· No, there isn’t. The garbage chute is on the staircase.

· В каком районе ваш дом?

· The house is in a new district which is far from the centre of the city.

· Сколько времени надо добираться до центра?