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Activities on pag 56-57 from focus now 2 and plot of General’s lady

Exercise 1

• In my house there are one kitchen, one living-room with diving-room, three bedrooms, three bathrooms and one broom closet
• My bedroom (I spent most time in here), the living-room (I spent less time than my bedroom), the kitchen (I spent more less than the living-room) and the bathroom (I rarely spent time in here)
• In the bedroom you can find a bed, a wardrobe and a desk; in the living-room you can find a sofa, a TV, a fireplace and an armchair; in the kitchen you can find a table, a fridge, a microwave, a cooker, chairs, a kitchen sink, shelves and a dishwater; in the bathroom you can find a shower, a sink, a toilet bowl and a bidet.

Exercise 3

1. He built the “Hobbit House” because he didn’t want to live in a mass-produced box on a housing estate.
2. He built it in the countryside.
3. He took to build the house after only four months and it cost £3.000
4. They got the materials from the surrounding area.
5. There isn’t central heating, but there’s a wood-burner and solar panels on the roof which provide power for lighting. A skylight in the roof provides lots of natural lights and the fridge stays cool thanks to air from under the ground.
6. He says: “We try to live in harmony with the natural world”

Exercise 4

I like all of this house, because it’s a eco-house and it made with natural materials. There is anything I don’t like.

Exercise 5

1. An eco-house
2. In the countryside
3. On a housing estate
4. Mud
5. Stone
6. Wood
7. Cousy
8. Open plane
9. Lot of natural light

Exercise 6

1. Bungalow
2. Semi-detached house
3. Flat
4. Cottage
5. Terraced house
6. Eco-house

Exercise 7

1. Bookcase
2. Carpet
3. Cooker
4. Cupboard
5. Floorboards
6. Kitchen sink
7. Stairs
8. Back door
9. Front door
10. Patio
11. Pond
12. Shed
13. Stone wall

Exercise 8

Exercise 9

Yes, they do. Specially the first person that he spoke. I am agreed with his ideas.

Exercise 10

Exercise 11

1. Did you make your bed this morning?
2. Do your neighbours ever make a noise?
3. Do you like do washing-up?
4. Who does the cooking in your house?
5. Have you ever made dinner for somebody?
6. Where does your family usually do the shopping?

Exercise 12

1. No, I didn’t
2. I don’t have the neighbours
3. Yes, I like it
4. My mum does
5. Yes, I have. I have made dinner for my sister and my dad.

Plot of General’s lady

After seeing the first episode, I think Jin’er and Chu Xiuming will get know each other better because she is forced to live with him. I think they will get married and in the future they probably will have kids.

The Jin’er’s friend I except to live with her and she will be falling in love with one of General’s friends, she will get married with him.

In the next episode Jin’er will find out if the rumours about General are true or false and who spread rumours in the first place; I think the stories are only partially true because in the first episode you can understand he killed his wife because they were spays.

In the future there might be a war and the General will have to go in fight and in the end he will win the war and he will come back home safely.