Some people in 3ritain live in unusual bouses. Here are some of them. Match the photos and the names of the houses.
Rick, Mrs Wilson anc Ellis live in different types of houses. They have different opinions about living in them.
1) Do Rick, Mrs Wilson and Ellis like living in their houses? (listening for the main idea)
2) What houses are they talking about?
My father is a lighthouse keeper. That’s why we live in a lighthouse. There are only two rooms and a kitchen in the house. But the rooms are very cosy and romantic. I like to dream about the sea and ships. It’s great to live in a lighthouse! Now we live near the sea and I can go swimming every day. But I have to go to school by bicycle. It takes me half an hour to get to school but I like it. I’d like to live here all my life but my mother thinks that it is better to live in an ordinary1 house.
Some years ago we lived in a caravan in summer. Some things were good and some things were bad about living in the caravan. On the one hand,1 we lived in a beautiful area and the school and shops were near our caravan park.* On the other hand,2 there was only one room and a place where / cooked in the caravan. We had electricity and gas there but there was no running water or central heating. It was difficult to wash our clothes and the dishes. / am happy now because we’ve bought a small summer
Once in summer we lived in a teepee.
I can’t say that I loved living in the teepee. It was very romantic and unusual but there were no modern conveniences in the teepee. We had no electricity, no running water, nothing. / helped my mum a lot because the work about the house was difficult. Besides, / со и Idn *t use my computer and the teepee was very small for a family. / prefer to have my own room. Since that summer we have had more comfortable holidays.
3) What is good about living in a lighthouse, a caravan or a teepee?
4) What is bad about living in a lighthouse, a caravan or a teepee?
5) Why docs Rick’s mother think that it is better to live in an ordinary house?