form 11 An Ideal House October 16, 2008

I `ve been looking for my ideal house for ages, and I think I might have found at last. You see, we
really like peace and quiet, and I `d quite like to live in the country, but we can `t really afford that.
But I think this is the next best thing. It `s a nice little flat opposite a lovely park right here in London.
There `s a main road in front of the house, that` s true, but well it`s only really noisy during the rush
hour, and that`s when we `re both traveling too, so we don `t really mind. Except at weekends. It `s a
second floor flat, with a large bedroom, a kitchen and sort of dining room together, and another small
room which we `re using as a study, and friends who come to stay can sleep there. That `s fine for us
at the moment, because there `s just the two of us though I suppose it would be too small if we had
any children. It `s about thirty minutes from central London on the Underground, and the station is
about five minutes walk. It `s also got central heating, which is quite important, and a bathroom with
a fitted shower, not a bath, so it`s quite small. There are shops right outside the house, a Greek
restaurant and a China take-away too. There`s even a swimming pool in the park but it`s an open-air
one, so that`s definitely summer only.

form 11 An Ideal House October 16, 2008

Well, I live about ten miles outside the city in what used to be a village I suppose, but now it`s
mainly people from the city who live there. It`s a very quiet place, rather expensive actually. We`ve
got a fairly typical detached house, a garden in the front, a garden in the back, a garage, the usual sort
of thing. It`s actually quite an old house, it used to be the local vicarage, though the church is actually
quite a long way away. It`s a big house, and it`s not in very good condition so we have to spend quite
a lot of time and money fixing it up. The roof, for instance, isn`t in very good condition. There are six
bedrooms, huge cold rooms. There isn `t any central heating, you see. We don `t use them all of
course, but they… they come in useful if we have a lot of people to stay at Christmas or something.
We`ve also got two bathrooms, a very big living room with a fireplace, and all kinds of other little
rooms. I keep my fishing things in one of them. I do quite a lot of that. There isn `t much else to do
around here, lots of countryside and a very good pub. The Red Lion, but no shops or anything like
that, we do all our shopping in a big supermarket in our nearest town once a week, it`s easier that
way. And living here you really need a car too, since the bus is very infrequent, about twice a day, I
think. We `ve both got our own cars, of course. It` s very peaceful here and we have our own fruit
trees and grow vegetables in the garden. And the sea is only eight miles away.

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Look through the articles and note down who the following statements refer to.
Some statements may belong to more than just one person.

A. This person is quite satisfied with his / her present house. _________
B. This person is employed in two different places. _________
C. His / Her neighbours run a small farm. _________
D. He / She wishes to have all the items in one single room. _________
E. He / She rides a bicycle to the Central London. _________
F. This young person would prefer to live somewhere at the seaside. _________
G. They talk about their dreams to have more than just one house. _________
H. We can say that he / she is rather a lazy person. _________
I. He / She says that likes the house as there are some facilities around. _________

Look through the articles and note down who the following statements refer to.
Some statements may belong to more than just one person.

A. This person is quite satisfied with his / her present house. _________
B. This person is employed in two different places. _________
C. His / Her neighbours run a small farm. _________
D. He / She wishes to have all the items in one single room. _________
E. He / She rides a bicycle to the Central London. _________
F. This young person would prefer to live somewhere at the seaside. _________
G. They talk about their dreams to have more than just one house. _________
H. We can say that he / she is rather a lazy person. _________
I. He / She says that likes the house as there are some facilities around. _________

Look through the articles and note down who the following statements refer to.
Some statements may belong to more than just one person.

A. This person is quite satisfied with his / her present house. _________
B. This person is employed in two different places. _________
C. His / Her neighbours run a small farm. _________
D. He / She wishes to have all the items in one single room. _________
E. He / She rides a bicycle to the Central London. _________
F. This young person would prefer to live somewhere at the seaside. _________
G. They talk about their dreams to have more than just one house. _________
H. We can say that he / she is rather a lazy person. _________
I. He / She says that likes the house as there are some facilities around. _________

Look through the articles and note down who the following statements refer to.
Some statements may belong to more than just one person.

A. This person is quite satisfied with his / her present house. _________
B. This person is employed in two different places. _________
C. His / Her neighbours run a small farm. _________
D. He / She wishes to have all the items in one single room. _________
E. He / She rides a bicycle to the Central London. _________
F. This young person would prefer to live somewhere at the seaside. _________
G. They talk about their dreams to have more than just one house. _________
H. We can say that he / she is rather a lazy person. _________
I. He / She says that likes the house as there are some facilities around. _________