B4-M1 Listening and speaking

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Listening and speaking
Describing your home
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Speaking

• Q If you try to describe your home to your
  partner, what things will you talk about?

• Now try to describe your home, talking about the
  following things
• size and number of rooms
• furniture
• technology

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Pre-listening

• What can you guess about the listening passage
  from the sentences in Activity 2 on Page?

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Listen and answer the questions.

1. He describes what housed will look like in ___
   years later? a) twenty b) thirty c) forty
2. He thinks houses in the future will be different
   ___. a) outside b) inside c) outside and
   inside
3. Houses will have _____ which move.
   a) floors b) ceilings c) walls
4. The most important room will be the _____
   a) bathroom b) kitchen c) living room

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Listen and answer the questions.
5. The ___ will be bigger.
a) bathroom b) dining
room c) toilet 6. The house will be controlled
by a ___. a) computer
b) robot c) telescreen 7. If machines are
smart, they are_____ .
a) clean b) invisible c) clever 8. The
architect is _____ optimistic about the effect of
the house on the environment.
a) not at all b) not very c)
very
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Work in pairs. Try to remember what the architect
says about

1. What could happen to the dining room and the
   living room?
2. How will people switch on the lights?
3. What will the toilet be able to do?
4. What will the dishwasher be able to do?

They will disappear.
The computer will do it.
It will move higher or lower depending on who
uses it.
It will wash the dishes without water.
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Extra-Listening

• Fill in the missing parts according to what
  you hear.
• I Good afternoon everybody and ____the programme
  this afternoon is an expert on American
  ___________________, Mr. Simon Oppenheim whos
  going to talk to us about the house in the
  future. So where _______________in twenty years
  time?
• G Twenty years _____ a long time. We ________
  underground or in space. We _____________in
  houses and flats as we do today.
• I What will the houses look like?

on
domestic architecture
shall we be living
wont be living
isnt
will be living
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much the same as

• G I think theyll look __________________they do
  today, at least from the outside. But hey will be
  different inside.
• I ______________?
• G ____________, theyll be more flexible. That
  means we ________________ move the walls to
  create bigger or smaller rooms when we want to.
  So the dining room and living room as we know
  them would disappear.
• I And the kitchen?
• G The kitchen _____________the most important
  room in the house! We_________________, and well
  probably be using the kitchen more as a family
  room. And bathrooms will be bigger.

In what way
For a start
will be able to
will become
will still be cooking
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• I So we ___________________more time in the
  bath.
• G Just as other people have done in the past,
  like in the days of the ancient Romans, when the
  bath had an important social function
• I What about furniture?
• G Well, a lot of furniture will be the same- we
  ____________________ in chairs and using
  cupboards to keep things in, but the technology
  will be different. I think a single computer will
  ______ most of the functions in the house, and it
  will have a voice recognition system.

will be spending
will still be sitting
control
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• I So well just have to say Switch on the Light
  and the light comes on?
• G Yes, thats right. And the technology will be
  smarter.
• I Smarter?
• G Yes. For example, if we ____________something,
  like theres _________milk left in the fridge,
  the computer will tell us. Maybe a shopping list
  would appear on a screen on the fridge. And the
  toilet will move higher or lower,
  _____________who uses it a child or an adult.

run out of
no more
depending on
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• I Will the houses of the future be
  ______________________?
• G Yes, ____________. Well be using machines
  which use less energy. An example could be a
  dishwasher which doesnt need water. I think
  everyone ___________________to take care of the
  environment.
• I Does that mean youre ________________the
  future?
• G Oh yes, very definitely.

environment friendly
definitely
will be trying hard
optimistic about
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Discussion

• Work in groups. Imagine your house of the future.
  One draws the picture of the future house while
  others trying to describe it.
• Then present it to all.

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Homework

1. Try to use the information in Activity 2 in
   Listening and Speaking on Page 5 to tell what the
   home of the future will be like.
2. Finish exercises on page 70-71.