5 Study the key phrases. Which responses are positive?
KEY PHRASES O Asking about the
weekend
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Questions
Did you have a good
weekend?
What about you?
What did you do?
How was it?
Was it good?
Responses
It was brilliant.
It was OK.
It was boring
Yeah. Fantastic!
It was terrible.
Not really
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Robert Lewis Stevenson was a novelist, poet and essayist who (1) became very successful at a certain stage of (2) his career. The son of a well-to-do engineer, Stevenson (3) was expected to follow his father’s footsteps. Nevertheless young Stevenson (4) felt that engineering was not for (5) him. He entered Edinburgh University and soon (6) began writing. In 1875 he qualified as a lawyer. At that time he already (7) became a popular writer thanks to his essays (8) published in a number of newspapers and magazines. Soon his poor health became (9) worse which made him (10) spend a lot of time away from home in the countries with a more suitable climate. He spent a lot of time in France where he made up his famous “Treasure Island”.

The house of my dream must be a comfortable well-planned two-storeyed cottage. Not so large of course. It should be situated in a quite ecologically clean place or street. In front of the house I want a green lawn and flowers to be. And also a big shaggy dog should live in his booth in our yard. There must be a large kitchen, a pantry, a dining-room, a cosy sitting-room with a fireplace and big windows on the ground floor.

There should be bedrooms with the own separated bathrooms on the first floor, and somebody`s study upstairs. And my room should be in the garret. And a balcony also should be.

Also I want to have a modern and quite new furniture. But the main thing that I do not want to do is to pay a lot of money for the house and the furniture for many years before I can call this house my own.

There should be a lot of trees, a pond or a fountain. It is necessary if my house be strong and well-defended with a beautiful fence.

Перевод:

Домом  моей мечты должен быть удобный хорошо спланированный двухэтажный коттедж. Конечно, не такой и ольшой. Он должен быть расположен в тихом экологически чистом месте или на улицу. В передней части дома я хочу, чтоб были зеленый газон и цветы.  А также большая лохматая собака должна жить в своей будке в нашем дворе. Там должна быть большая кухня, кладовая, столовая, уютная гостиная с камином и большими окнами на первом этаже.

Там должны быть спальни с  собственными отдельными ванными комнатами на первом этаже, и чей-то`кабинет наверху. И моя комната должна быть на чердаке. Там также должен быть балкон.

Также я хочу иметь современную новую мебель. Но главное, что я не хочу делать,  так это выплачивать много денег за дом и мебель в течение многих лет, прежде чем я могу назвать этот дом собственным.

Там должно быть много деревьев,пруд или фонтан.Это необходимо, если мой дом будет хорошо защищенным и с красивым забором.