Тест "Home sweet home"

I. Match the collocations with their definitions

1. make a mess –                   a) To relocate from one house or place of residence to another.

2. do the housework –            b) a dangerous or unpleasant situation which you have got into and from which it                

                                               is difficult or impossible to escape

3. move house –                     c) make smth look dirty and untidy

4. move with the times –         d) regular work done in housekeeping, especially cleaning and tidying.

5. trap –                                   e) strengthen or support (an object or substance), especially with additional material.

6. reinforce –                           f) to change and become more modern, because attitudes or fashions are changing

7. do the dishes                      g) Wash the plates, glasses, and silverware used at a meal

II. Choose the correct variant

1.As soon as we arrived at the campsite, we put up the ___ because it was getting dark.

a) detached house

b) tent

c) dormitory

2. We’ve been tidying up for one hour now and I’m exhausted. Can we ___ a break?

a) do

b) make

c) take

3. I always make ___ after I get up so that my room is tidy.

a) a mess

b) the housework

c) the bed

4) They share a(n) ___ in a block of flats in the city centre.

a) bungalow

b) apartment

c) semi-detached house

5) In London, there are neighbourhoods with identical houses one next to the other. These are called ___ houses

a) detached

b) terraced

c) semi-detached

6) The hotel was designed to look like a traditional ___ from the fifteenth century.

a) tent

b) castle

c) block of flats

III. Fill in the gaps with appropriate words

paint    downstairs     windows     cottage     kitchen     hall    suburbs    living-room   upstairs     house territory      two-storey      reinforce      cracked     bathroom(2)     garden     private house      roof   bedrooms    garage design

We live in our own 1_________________ 2_______________ in the 3___________. 4________________ there are modern5 ______________, big 6 _________, 7____________ and 8 _______________. 9_______________ there are 3 10_____________ and 11______________.

The 12_________________________ is not very big. We have a 13___________ in the backyard. On the left side there is a 14______________. But the minus side of living in a 15___________________ is moving the lawn. I hate doing this.

Our house is not too old, but my parents are going to repair it. My father is going to 16________________ the walls because one wall have 17______________. Also he wants to change the 18______________ and fix the 19___________. I’d  like to 20_______________ my own room myself. I think I’ll 21_____________ the walls into light green colour.

 IV. Translate the sentences.

1. Я надіюсь ми переїдемо в новий будинок вже наступного місяця. 2. Ми збираємось зберігати старі речі на горищі. 3. Однією з переваг життя в місті є великий вибір громадського транспорту. 4. Вони не зможуть дозволити собі дорогі матеріали. 5. Я вірю, що люди йтимуть в ногу з часом і будуватимуть сучасні будинки.6. Коли я стану старшим, я куплю особняк. 7. Наша раковина зламалась, ми встановимо нову

V. Complete the sentence

My favourite room is ……… because ……and/but ………