Ex. 2. Answer the questions

1.How can American apartments usually be described?

2.What rooms do they usually have?

3.What is the most typical decoration of the apartments?

4.Where are laundry facilities installed?

5.What do they use to regulate the temperature?

6.What are the two types of apartments?

7.Can town-houses be purchased or rented?

8.What is the purchase price of condominiums?

9. What houses are the most expensive?
10. What can you say about mobile homes?

Ex. 3. Find Russian equivalents to the following:

1.a studio apartment; 8. to purchase;

2.a closet; 9. to range;

3.an outlet; 10. to escalate;

4.a floor lamp; 11.a mobile home;

5.facility; 12. outskirts;

6.a condominium; 13. to reside;

7.a town-house; 14. to locate.

Ex. 4. Translate from Russian into English.

-У меня замечательная новость. Мы живем в новой квартире. У нас последний этаж.

-Вид прекрасный, не так ли?

-Да. Перед домом газоны. Много цветов и деревьев.

-Счастлива слышать это. Сколько у вас комнат?

-У нас четырех комнатная квартира. Комнаты большие и солнечные. У нас есть спальня, кабинет, гостиная, столовая и кухня.

-А вся мебель новая?

-Наша мебель вся новая и очень элегантная.

-А что у вас в кабинете?

-Первое, что вы видите, когда входите в комнату, это книжный шкаф. Он стоит у стены.

-А что у вас в кухне?

-Кухня очень удобная. Моя жена ее очень любит.

-Жена готовит там?

-Да. Обычно мы там и едим.

-У вас есть стиральная машина и пылесос?

-Да. Время от времени я чищу ковры.

-О, Пит, ты хороший муж! Твоей жене повезло!

-Да, и мне тоже. У нас хорошая квартира. У нас дома очень уютно. Приезжайте к нам сегодня вечером.

Grammar: Adverbs.

Kinds of adverbs:

Manner: bravely, fast, happily, hard, well

Place: by, down, here, near, there, up

Time: now, soon, still, then, today, yet

Frequency: always, never, occasionally, often, twice

Sentence: certainly, definitely, luckily, surely

Degree: fairly, hardly, rather, quite, too, very

Interrogative: when, where, why

Relative: when, where, why

Form and use.

The formation of adverbs with -ly

· Many adverbs of manner and some adverbs of degree are formed by adding to the corresponding adjectives:

final, finally slow, slowly

note that the adverb of good is well.

· Adjectives ending in -ly

daily, weekly, monthly, kindly and sometimes leisurely can be adjectives or adverbs, but most other adjectives ending in -ly, e.g. friendly, likely, lonely etc., cannot be used as adverbs and have no adverb form. To supply this deficiency we use a similar adverb or adverb phrase:

likely (adjective) probably (adverb)

friendly (adjective) in a friendly way (adverb phrase)

· Some adverbs have a narrower meaning that their corresponding adjectives or differ from them.

Coldly, coolly, hotly, warmly are used mainly of feelings:

We received them coldly.

They defined the accusation hotly.