Review house and home vocabulary.
Read a magazine article about feng shui.
Study vocabulary describing houses and homes.
Study prepositions of place, imperatives to give instructions, and will and might to give advice.
Listen to three people talking about their favorite rooms.
Review what you have studied so far.
Post messages about feng shui and your house, and find out about other students' houses. (This is an optional activity designed to give you extra writing practice.)
Tell your tutor about where you live.
Practice asking about and describing homes.
Practice understanding and asking questions.
Find more information about feng shui and famous homes. (This is an optional activity designed to give you extra reading and writing practice.)
Write a letter giving information about how to organize an office.
Talk to your tutor about the unit and the topic you wrote about in Tutorial 2.
Review the work in the unit.
Send us your feedback on this unit.
Test what you have studied in this unit.
Practise the language you study in this unit, and improve your reading, listening and speaking skills.
above
above (prep)
directly over or higher than something else; for example, "The plane is flying above the clouds"
apt
apt (abbreviation) (n)
apartment
at
at home (adv)
comfortable and relaxed in a place or situation
apply
apply (v)
to be relevant or related to something
bill
bill (n)
a piece of paper explaining how much you have to pay for a particular object or service
ceiling
ceiling (n)
the top part of a room
choice
choice (n)
when you have the possibility of selecting one of a number of things; for example, "for lunch there was a choice of meat or fish"
coal
coal (n)
a hard black mineral burned to give energy
conflicting
conflicting (adj)
in opposition to
consideration
consideration (n)
careful thought about something before making a decision
couple
couple (n)
two of something
decorate
decorate (v)
to make a place, for example a house, look nice by painting it and putting nice objects in it
edge
edge (n)
the side of an object
energy
energy (n)
the force or power that objects or people have
entertain
entertain (v)
to keep people happy and interested; for example, "He entertained the children for hours with stories and games"
face
face (v)
to be opposite something or someone, with the front (or face) toward the other thing's or person's front (or face)
filing
filing cabinet (n)
a piece of office furniture for keeping important papers in
fill
fill (v)
to put lots of something in a place or object
floor
floor (n)
a level of a building; for example, houses often have two floors, and apartments often have only one
flow
flow (v)
to move steadily and continuously in a particular direction; for example, rivers often flow to the sea
freely
freely (adv)
without restriction
go
go for (v)
to choose something
hall
hall (n)
the area just inside the front door of a house or a waiting area in a building or office
hang
hang (v)
to attach something by the top to a high point; for example, "I'll hang the picture on the wall"
harmoniously
harmoniously (adv)
when things go together well, for example, musical notes
improve
improve (v)
to make something better
large
large (adj)
very big
main
main (adj)
the most important
mins
mins (abbreviation) (n)
minutes
move
move (v)
to go to live in a different house
movers
movers (n)
people whose job is to move furniture when a person goes to live in a different house
neighbor
neighbor (n)
a person who lives in the house or apartment next to yours
ornament
ornament (n)
an attractive object you put in a house, for example, to make it look nice
oval
oval (adj)
a shape, like an egg
pattern
pattern (n)
the design of colors or pictures on materials like clothes, for example
reflect
reflect (v)
to send light back in the direction from which it came or to see your image in an object like a mirror
significant
significant (adj)
important
spirit
spirit (n)
the non-physical part of a person believed to continue to exist after death
success
success (n)
something that works well
utility
utility (n)
a service provided (such as electricity, light, gas) by a public company
vital
vital (adj)
very important
wood
wood (n)
the material which comes from trees
without
w/o (abbreviation) (prep)
without