English in Daily Life

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English in Daily Life
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Unit 5 Local Community
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Aims

• Ask for/find information about local facilities
• Describe facilities
• Extract information from leaflets
• Read/respond to housing advertisement
• Talk about accommodation
• Engage in small talk with neighbors
• Follow information about banking.

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Warm- up

• The Home/Accommodation
• Rooms, flats, apartments,
  bed-sits(bed-sitters), bungalows, cottages,
  houses, halls of residence, dormitories, castles,
  palaces, mansions, etc.

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• Apartments (Am.) an apartment house, or an
  apartment building
• Flat (Br.) a block of flats
• Dormitories (Am.)
• Halls of residence (Br.)

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General Location of Homes

• Community
• In the downtown, in the town center,
  uptown, out of town, in the suburb, in a pleasant
  suburb of the city, in the country(side), in the
  business area, in the housing area, in a busy
  area, in a less-busy/quiet area, in a nice
  neighborhood, in a rough/tough district, on (the)
  campus, on a housing estate

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Activity OneAccommodation

• Types of home
• A detached house, a semi-detached house, a
  terraced house (a row of terraced houses), a
  housing estate, a bungalow, a cottage, a blocks
  of flats, a high-rise/tower block, a skyscraper,
  a caravan(Brit.), a trailer(U.S.)

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Accommodation to Let
Advertisements

• To let for rent available now wanted
• Tenants, landlord, landlady, lodger, boarder,
  owner
• Rent including bills/plus bills/excluding bills

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• Single room, double room
• Shared flat/house, cooking facilities, kitchen,
  well-furnished, furniture, central heating,
  shared bathroom, convenient bus stops

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Activity TwoTalking about Accommodation

• Making a telephone call
• The person who answers the the phone is expected
  to speak first.
• A. Hello/Hi. 56709. /Stewarts residence. /I.B.M.
  company./John Smith speaking. (How can I help
  you?/What can I do for you?)
• B. I am calling about/Can I speak to Rose?/Is
  Rose in?/Is that Rose?
• A Yes, sure./ (This is Rose)Speaking. /Hold on a
  moment please./Just a moment please.

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Finding out about the house/ Enquiring about the
house

• What is/are like?
• What about ?
• Is there ?

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Replace the sentences

• What sort of house is it?
• What size is the house?
• What facilities are there in the house?
• What are the local facilities like?
• Is the house far from the city center?
• Is phone bill included in the rent?
• What is the exact location of the house?

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• What is the house like?
• How big is the house?
• How many rooms are there (in the house?)/What
  about the size?
• What about the facilities?/What are the
  facilities like?
• What local facilities are there in the
  area/neighborhood?
• How far is it?
• What about the phone bill?
• Where exactly is the house?

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Activity Three Facilities

• A sense of community
• A sense of responsibility
• A sense of humor
• A sense of environmental protection
• Environmental awareness
• A good sense of
• A poor sense of

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Facilities and Amenities

• Desirable facilities and amenities in a local
  area/residential area
• Community center, laundry, launderette,
  laundress, pay phone, a park, restaurants,
  newsagents, newsstand, a bookstand, a book
  store, supermarket, free market, fruitvegetable
  stalls, bakers (the bakery), department store,
  library, post office, bank, playground

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Tag questions

• 1. To start a small talk with some one not quite
  familiar(to break the ice to break the silence),
  as well as to keep the conversation going
• 2. To ask for confirmation of thoughts and ideas
• For example
• Its a lovely day, isnt?
• Richard should work harder, shouldnt he?

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Activity Four Getting to know the Neighborhood

• The place to go
• If you want , you should go to , which is
• Have sth done (done by others, ont you yourself)
• Page 223

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Activity Five Information Leaflets

• What can each person do for the community?
• Community Watch
• Community Center
• Unwaged, unemployed

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Activity Six Banking

• Pay cash
• Pay by check
• Pay in credit
• Page 237

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Vocabulary and expressions learned

• Temporary, let, lease, make sense of, interpret,
  damp, work out, (grand-)sounding, cosmopolitan,
  wok, reasonable, negotiable, flexible, amenity,
  remind sb of sth, odd jobs, old folk, made of
  money, slot, interval, discount, film
  developers, terminal, paying slip, shrug off,
  deterfrom, would-be, congregate, tackle,
  loiter, hang around, board games, entitle sb to
  do, refreshments, modesty-priced, account,
  standing order, current account, withdraw,
  overdraft

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Assignment

• 1. Review the whole unit
• 2. Write a composition on the topic
• My New Home
• 3. Prepare Unit 6

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The End !!