SHARING A FLAT
SCENARIO
2.3
PREPARATION
1
a
Work with a partner. Talk about where you live.
Do you live with your family? Do you share a flat with
friends?
1
b
Imagine you are looking for a flatmate. Choose
five of the things in the box that are important to
you. What other things are important in a flatmate?
Compare your ideas with your partner.
have similar interests to me not smoke have a job
be friendly and sociable be good-looking be rich
do his/her washing-up be quiet and polite be tidy
be a good cook be honest be clever
A flatmate should have similar interests to me.
2
Match these opposite adjectives.
1
polite
a
shy
2
friendly
b
horrible
3
confident
c
rude
4
nice
d
miserable
5
cheerful
e
unfriendly
6
hard-working
f
stupid
7
clever
g
quiet
8
chatty
h
lazy
A Name/Nationality/Job
Martin, Canadian,
1
B Personality
At first, not very
2
.
Not
3
.
Hard-working. Seems
4
.
C Likes/Dislikes
Watching
5
on TV, cooking.
Hates
6
D Appearance
Looks
7
.
Wearing
8
clothes.
Short
9
hair. Like Mr Bean.
E Gao Ying’s opinion:
Happy to live with a
10
person.
Would like to share with a Canadian.
A
PRONUNCIATION
3
a
Word stress
The word
confident
has three
syllables:
con-fi-dent
. How many syllables are there in
the adjectives in Exercise 2?
3
b
2.5
How do we pronounce
confident
? Listen
and check.
•
•
•
1
confident
2
confident
3
confident
3
c
2.6
Mark the stress on the adjectives in
Exercise 2. Then listen and check.
3
d
Test your partner. Say one of the adjectives. Your
partner tells you the opposite.
SITUATION
Robert (a PhD student from Poland) and Gao Ying
(who works for an advertising company and is from
Hong Kong) share a three-bedroom flat in London.
They are looking for a new flatmate. Robert is in
Poland at the moment and he missed the people who
came to see the flat. Gao Ying telephones Robert and
tells him about the different people.
4
a
2.7
Listen to part of their conversation. Do you
think Robert wants this person to be the new flatmate?
4
b
Listen again and complete Robert’s notes. Write
one word in each gap.
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