1. VOCABULARY Look at the photos. What types of homes are they? Listen and choose from the words below. What type of home do you live in? 2. VOCABULARY Work in pairs. Listen to the words below. Put them into two groups: those that are more likely to be a) parts of a house and b) in a garden. 3. Which is the odd-one-out? Explain why. Sometimes more than one answer is possible. 4. Listen to an estate agent showing someone round a house. Which seven parts of the house are mentioned in the dialogue?
1. SPEAKING Describe the photo. What are the people doing? What might they be saying? 2. Read the dialogue, ignoring the gaps, and check your ideas from exercise 1. 3. Complete the dialogue with the comparative or superlative form of the adjectives in brackets. 4. Read the Learn this! box. Match each highlighted phrase in the dialogue with a rule (a-f). 5. Look at the table. Then listen and decide if the sentences are true or false. Correct the false sentences.
1. SPEAKING Work in pairs. Look at the photo, title and slogan opposite. What happens on a 'Big Sleep Out', do you think? Read the article and check your answer. 2. Read Listening Strategy 1. Complete the definitions with the words below. 3. Listen to two short recordings. Answer the questions. Use the verbs and phrases in exercise 2 to help you. 4. Read Listening Strategy 2. Then listen to three recordings. Which excerpts contain formal language? Use the table below to help you identify them. 5
1. SPEAKING Read the fact file about Castle Howard, a stately home in the north of England. Would you like to live in a house like this? Why? / Why not? 2. Read and listen to the dialogue. What two outdoor and indoor changes do the speakers mention? 3. Read the Learn this! box and complete it. Underline all the examples of the second conditional in the dialogue. 4. Complete these second conditional sentences using the verbs in brackets. 5. Read the Learn this! box and complete it. Underline one
1. SPEAKING Work in pairs. Imagine you were trying to sell the house in the photo. How would you describe it? Use the words below to help you. 2. Work in pairs. Complete the dialogue in an estate agent's using the infinitive without to of these verbs: do, make, take. 3. Listen and check your answers. Do you think the woman is keen on buying the house? Why? / Why not? 4. Read the Learn this! box. Which examples of do, make and take in the dialogue in exercise 2 match the basic meanings in the Lea