1 Complete the sentences below with words and phrases from the box. city centre ,country,outskirts ,sea…

2 Complete the people’s comments with the names of places in a town.

‘I go to the ________________ after school to do my homework. It’s quiet there and I can borrow any book I want.’

‘My favourite place in town is the ________________ . I come here every Saturday with my dad. We’ve already been to all the matches this season.’

‘Last weekend I went to a ________________ for the first time. We saw a famous opera singer.’

‘My friends and I love going to the ________________ , especially when it rains. We either play basketball or go swimming in the large, indoor pool.’

‘When I finish school, I want to go to ________________ . My dream is to get a degree in science.’

‘My dad works at the ________________ . He sells train tickets.’

‘I’d love to go to a ________________ , but I’m too young at the moment. I think I would win a lot of money.’

‘My friend had an accident and had to stay in ________________ for three days.’

D. U Listen to the descriptions of the two houses and check yourselves. Fill in the missing words. Listen and check. Amelia: I live in a (1. .) building not far from the city centre. My house is just round the corner. It’s a block of flats with just one (2. .). My flat is on the 11th floor, so I have to take the (3. .) to get to our flat. My bedroom window looks onto the (4. .) with blue swings, red-and-yellow slides and comfortable wooden (5. .). The school I go to is quite far from my house, so it takes me fifteen minutes to get there. Arthur: I live in a (6. .) house in a village. It looks like a fairy-tale (7. .).
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Spotlight 9. Module 2. Variant 1.
Fill in: washing, surburbs, caravan, floor household chores,
neighbourhood, basement, mop. Two words are extra.
1. Of all the doing the washing is the one Jenny hates most.
2 Is your new . very crowded and noisy?
3. Jenny would like a house with a . to keep vegetables.
4. My mom does . and cleaning in our family.
Where do you live in the centre or in the ?
6. I prefer living in the cottage, if you like you may live in the . .
II. Complete the sentences using the correct form of the verbs in brackets.
1. Do you mind .(get) off the phone ? I need to make a call.
2. Sam avoids (shop) at the corner shop because it’s a bit expensive.
3. George has offered . (take) the dog for a walk while I’m busy with the
chores
4. They are tired of . (live) in the dirty, noisy city.
5. Danny wants.(become) an astronaut when he grows up.
6. Mark’s parents never let him . (stay) out late on weeknights.
7. They are always glad .(find) a warm place.
8. He stopped. (smoke).
9. They stopped . (rest) and continued the work.
10. You must . (tidy) up your own room.
* porticle Gun for out of. off with, up).​

Complete the key phrases with the words in the box. Look at the model text and check. 50,000 Kazakhstan friendly 25 Almaty by the river KEY PHRASES O Describing a town/city 1 It’s in the north / south / east / west of 2 It’s got a population of about — 3 It’s a place. 4 My favourite place is — 5 It’s kilometres from a​

Complete the table with the words in the box.
3
shops factories offices warehouses parks
swimming pools skyscrapers banks schools
CBD
industrial zone
residential zone​

Complete the text using only ONE word in each gap.

The 0 transport in the city where I live is very good. It’s best to go 1 _____________ bus to most places in the city. There’s a big bus 2 _____________ in the city centre. You can get buses to many places from there. I study at the university so I take a bus there every weekday. Some of my classmates 3 _____________ a bike there, but I don’t have a bike. Anyway, there’s a bus 4 _____________ just outside the university so I can 5 _____________ off the bus there and walk to my first lesson – it’s very easy. I have a car too, but there aren’t any car 6 _____________ near the university that students can use so the bus is much easier. The city isn’t big enough to have an

7 _____________, but maybe one day we can have one here, like the Metro in Paris – I love going on that.

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Use the words above to describe the place where you live.
I live. There are. but there aren’t​

Exercise 1.

Complete the text with the following prepositions.

by (3), from, of (2), to, for

Travelling

I like to travel. First (1) __________ all, the members of our family usually have long walks in the country. Such walks are called hikes. If we want to see the countryside, we spend a part of our summer holidays hiking. It is useful (2) _________ our family. We take our bags, we don’t think about tickets, we don’t hurry up and we walk a lot. During such hikes we see a lot (3) ____________ interesting places, sometimes we meet interesting people. I like to travel (4) ______________ car. It is interesting too, because you can see many things in a short time. When we go (5) ___________ car, we don’t take tickets, we put all things we need in a car. We don’t carry them. It is comfortable to travel (6) __________ train and plane because we don’t spend a lot of time going (7) ____________ one place to another. I like to fly. Sometimes we go (8) _____________ the seaside for a few days. The weather is usually fine. If it is warm, we can swim. It is a pleasure to watch white ships. I think that travelling is very useful for us.

Чим It was another nice summer day. The sun (1)

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(to go) down behind the hills when I (2)

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(to get) a village which (3)

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(to be) only a few miles from the city. The working day (4)

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(to be) over. The people (5)

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(to come) back home. Along the road cars (6)

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(to drive) in the direction of the city. I (7)

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(to come) to a group of people standing near the road and (8)

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(to ask) them if I could find a place in the village to spend the night. An old man (9)

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(to advise) me to stay at a small inn at the far end of the street. A fire (10)

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(to burn) in the fireplace when we (11)

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(to enter) the house. One girl of about eighteen (12)

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(to prepare) supper in the kitchen while two other girls (13)

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(to lay) the tables for their guests. The old man was an owner of that inn and he (14)

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(to invite) me to have supper with him and his family. They all (15)

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(to seem) to be nice people and we (16)

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(to have) a friendly talk. After supper my new friends and I

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(17) (to go) out into the garden. The moon (18)

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( to shine) high in the sky, and the night (19)

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(to be) warm and beautiful. That evening (20)

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(to be) really pleasant.

Task 4 (10 points) Fit in the gaps with the correct preposition, Examples 0. Dave is the garden Dave is in the garden 1 — Where is your mother? She is the kitchen the table 2. My books are the traffic lights 3. There is a big car my wallet 4. I have got 5 coins. They are 5. — Where do you want to live? — I want to live England​