OF Home sweet home Listening 7 Pairwork. Students look at the pictures of the rooms in the Vocabulary section and at the pictures in this exercise and match the rooms with the people. Do not confirm answers, ‘Students listen to the recording and check their answers, You may need to play the recording a second time. So, Mike Is this a picture of your new ving room? Yes, thats righ, in our new house. ls my favorite room, Ay yes? Why do you ike it? ‘Well, has lots of colog and its quiet and very relaxing | Ike the plants an I really lve the treplace. Mike, I soe that there n't a TV inthe room. No, there fant We have a TV room upstairs. This room s a ‘quiet room. A room to relaxin. And do you spend lots of time there? Yes, | do, after work for example, or on the weekend, with my wife. Yes, we spend lots of time there. So, Bianca, do you havea ling room in your apartment? Yes, we do. i's realy nice, {What do you tke about I? ‘Well i's fun. and the sofa really comfortable. thas a TV and a DVO player {And lots and lots of CDst Yes, we lke Istening to music! Do you spend a lot of time in your Iving room? Yes, we do ~ hours and hours! We eat there, we watch TV, we listen to music I'S a great room? 0, Darren, | realy tke the picture of your living room. ‘Thank you. I realy lice i, too. There’ ots of space and li ove the big windows. Theres a great view! Do you spend a lot of tine in your ving room? Yes, vith my fiends, talking, watching 1 istening to music Theres a big TV and | have a superb new CD playes but yo can't soe it inthe picture Yes. tsa very modern room! 1b 2a 3c 2 Pairwork. Students write the name of the person who said each phrase, then listen again to check ANSWER KEY 1 Bianca 2.Darren 3 Mike 4 Bianca SiMke 6 Daren 3 Pairwork. Students answer the questions, then close their books and recall the questions. Ask some of the more confident students to ask and answer the questions aloud. Takeout English Booking a room in a hotel 1 Pairwork, Draw attention tothe list of things they can find in a hotel room. They say which three are the most important. Alternatively Before the students start the task, you may want to wre the following Useful language on the board, or with stionger students, dictate it to the class. think (a tenet) is the mast mmportan. don't dink fave) is very important 2 Whole class, Students listen to the telephone conversation of a person booking a hotel room. They mark the services, on the list, Draw their attention to the example before they listen. They compare answers with a partner. & Receptionist: Good morning. Belle Vue Hote. Can |help you ? Guest: Yes, please. 10 lke to reserve a room for next weekend, Receptionist: For how many nights? Guest Two nights, Friday and Saturday, Receptionist February 3 and 14? Guest: Yes that’ right. Receptionist: double room or a single roorn? ‘Guest: A.double room please with a kitchenette. Receptionist: OK... a double room with Kichenete fortwo nights. ‘Guest Does the room havea balcony? Receptionist: Yes, it does, a view of the ocean. Fantastic fs there a TV in the roorn? Yes, there is and a mini bar How much i it? Its 150 dollars a night Fine Id ke to reserve it What’ your name please? Johnson, Sue Johrson Can you spell your last name please? Yes, ofcourse. l'sJ ONS ON. (OK, Ms. Johnson. You have a double room with ketchenete for Friday February 13 and Saturday, Februa u. Thank you Receptionist: See you on Friday Double bed, ktchenet, balcony, 2 view TV mini bar Read the booking form with the whole class. Students listen to the recording again and complete the form with, the information they hear, You may need to play the recording twice. Students compare answers with partni ANSWER KEY _ 1 ue Johnson 2 February 133 two 4 double room wth sitchenette Read the questions with the whole class, Allow students df few minutes to prepare their answers. They can write the down if they want. Drill the useful language with the whd class. Students work in pairs to role-play booking a hotel room, Ask some of the more confident students to repeal their dialogues for the whole class.Listening 1. Work in pairs, Match the rooms with the people. TAKEOUT ENGLISH: Reserving a hotel room (77 Work in pairs. Look at the list of things you can find in a hotel room. Which three are the most important? * kitchenette * mini bar * balcony: saview * room service Cea 2 © Listen to someone booking a room at the Belle Vue Hotel, Mark the services on the list. C2 er eit ond complete te booking form Belle Vue Hotel Reservation form Name: ‘Sue Johnson Ce Ninocrno iy room Home sweet home Useful language I think this is .. (Bianca's) room, Why? Because it's (stylish) Because there are .. (lots of CDs). ®% Listen and check, 2 Work in pairs. Look at the sentences. Write the name of the person (Mike, Bianca or Darren), 1 Is fun .... and the sofa's r comfortable, Bianca There’s a great view. There isn’t a TV in the room. We eat there, we watch TY, we listen to music I really love the fireplace. There's lots of space and light. Listen and check. 3 Discuss these questions with your partner 1 Do you like your living room? Why? Why not? 2 Do you spend a lot of time in your living room? 3 What do you do there? 4 You want to reserve a room in a hotel, Look at the questions and decide on the answers. 4 How many nights? 2 Would you like a single room or a double room? 3 Would you like a room with kitchenette? 4 What other things are important for you? Work in pairs. Practice making a reservation. Useful language {1d like to reserve a room, please. Double or single? For how many nights? ‘A double room with kitchenette Is there @ TV in the room? Does it have a balcony?Ideal homes Listening 1 Look at the phrases in the box. Write them in the correct column below. ‘on-airopicalisiend a penthouse {the downtown area of a capital city in the country la movie theater afarmhouse sauna a castle a private lake a helicopter pad. locations ‘on a tropical island types of homes | facilities Work in pairs. Compare your answers with your partner, Add two more phrases to each column, 2 &\Listen to three people describing their idea of a perfect home, Mark the things they talk about i [Speaker 1 | Speaker 2 |Speaker 3 a penthouse v ‘afarmhouse _| acastle the downtown area| of a capital city. in the country (on a tropical island ‘a movie theater sauna “a private lake ‘a helicopter pad 3 On the right are sketches of the three ideal homes. Use the words in the box to complete the labels. bathrooms bedrooms afireplace an enormous living room superb gardens a big terrace a swimming pool Listen and check. 4 Look at these sentences. Match them with the houses. 1 Ithas ola walls, but inside the rooms are modern and comfortable. picture D 2-Ithas a big terrace and @ swimming pool 3 There's a movie theater ~a small, private movie theater ~in the house. 4 It has superb views of the downtown area 5 And It has superb gardens ... with tropical fruit. 6 ‘There's a private helicopter pad near the'lake.ANSWER KEY 1a peathouse in the downtonn area of a capa cily 2a castle, a priate leke, a heicopter pad 3 on a topical sland, a sauna, a move theater 3 Read the phrases in the box and refer the students to the sketches. Students label the sketches individually and then ‘compare answers with a partner. They listen again to check their answers. ANSWER KEY fa Tbatvoom 2 bedrooms 3 a big terrace 4 a swimming pool 5a fireplace 'b 1 batlvooms 2 bedrooms 3 an enormous living room A arreplace € 1 a swimming poo! 2 bexkooms 3 superb gardens Real beginners ee Listen to the descriptions one by one, marking the tems mentioned in the box, Stidents then work in pais to label the sketches and Isten a second time to check ther answers ‘Draw attention to the expressions in the box and check {Understanding. Stuclents write them in the correct colu ‘then compare their answers in pairs, adding two more ‘phrases to each column. ‘ANSWER KEY Location: ena opi sand, the county the downtown area of a capa ty Types of homes: a penthouse, a farmhouse, a castle Facltes a movie eater, sauna, a pxvate lake, a helicopter pad Whole class. Students listen to three people describing their perfect homes and complete the table. Students ‘compare their answers in pairs. Play the recording a ‘second time, pausing to check each answer (see transcript hhelow for pauses //. & 1 The ideal home? Erm. yes know whore iis tsa fantastic penthouse. Its in the middle of Madi, atthe top ofa very high bulding. thas a fantastic view of the downtown and the mountains in the distance. thas a big terrace and a swaenming pool ~ there, on top| of the oof inthe middle ofa capital ct! Its really incredible. The Toms are bg and theres lots of light and space. has three bathrooms and four bedrooms and a big replace inthe midale of tha} ving room. 2 My idea of the perfect home? Wel, err, thats cifcut Yes, I know — caste! // A castle with a pate lake, in Scotland maybe. Ithas old ‘walls but inside the rooms are modem and comfortable. thas an ‘enormous living room with an open fireplace, and three bedrooms with batnraoms. And theresa replace in every room. And a prtate Hhecopter padi! near the lake, 3 The perfect home? Ona tropical island i hink. Yes, a beautiful house| ‘on a vopical beach. thas a simmning pool, and a sauna and ten bedrooms so all my friends can come to visit me! And theres a ‘mave theater i ~ a smal private movie theater in the house =, where we can watch our favorite moves. And it has beautiful gardens wth | opal rut and hammocks in the trees. Yes, what a cream home! 4. Draw attention to the sentences, Students match them to the houses. Students can work in pairs and check their answers in the transcript ANSWER KEY 1b 2a 3c 4a 5c 6b ‘thele t Hernd nae hae