Do you want to live in a house like this ?

A beautiful kitchen

Air conditioner

A games room…A spacious sitting room

A big garden with trees

More than two washrooms

Cottage

Different Kinds of Houses

Flat/Apartment

Castle Palace

washroom

bedroom

dining roomsitting room

hall

games room

balcony

kitchen

Read the text quickly, and find out

which of these things the girl’s

dream house had as well as the

main idea of each paragraph.

Reading

A swimming pool, a big garden (yard) with trees, a balcony, running water, a games room, three washrooms, “real” stairs, a basement

Para1

Para2

Para3

Para 4

Para 5

(A)The advantage of the house on Mango Street

(B)The description of the house on Mango Street(C)The advantage of the house on Loomis

(D)The reason for leaving the house on Loomis

(E)The description of their dream house (F)Frequent moving of the house

balconyrunning water

basement

swimming pool

a yard with trees

washroom

games room

“real” stairs

Para1

Para2

Para3

Para 4

Para 5

(A)The advantage of the house on Mango Street

(B)The description of the house on Mango Street(C)The advantage of the house on Loomis

(D)The reason for leaving the house on Loomis

(E)The description of their dream house (F)Frequent moving of the house

1. How many places has the girl lived in?

2. Where did she live before Mango Street? Why

did they leave?3. Why did the girl want at least three bathrooms?

4. Who did Mama and Papa talk to about their

dream house?

5. Do you think the girl was satisfied with the house

on Mango Street?

Read the text again, and answer the

following questions:

1. How many places has the girl lived in?

More than 4.

2. Where did she live before Mango Street?

Why did they leave?

A third floor flat on Loomis. They had to

leave because the water pipes broke and the

landlord refused to fix them.3. Why did the girl want at least three

bathrooms? So that, when she took a bath, she

wouldn’t have to tell anybody.

4. Who did Mama and Papa talk to

about their dream house?

To their children.

5. Do you think the girl was satisfied

with the house on Mango Street?

No, because it was far away from

her dream house.

☆ Finish the multiple-choices.

1.A landlord is _________.

A. a businessman B. a piece of land

C. an owner of a house D. a cleaner

2.Can you find out the words in the

text to replace them: garden,

repair, toilet?

A. yard, flat , pipe

B. fence, fix, pipe

C. gallon, fix, basement

D. yard, fix, washroom

3. Which of the following statements about the house on Mango street is TRUE?A. They need to pay rent to landlord.B. The house is a big improvement to the family.C. They must share the garden with others.D. They can’t make too much noise there.

4.What can we infer from the reading

text?

A. The girl had a happy childhood.

B. The girl’s parents were poorly

educated.

C. They would probably live in the house

on Mango street for a long time.

D. The girl hated her parents.

5. The passage is mainly talking

about________.

A. the places where they lived before

moved to Mango street.

B. the life on Mango street

C. a dream house and a real house on

Mango street

D. the reasons why they moved to

Mango street.

Task:

(1)Describe your present house to

your partners.

or(2)Describe your dream house to

your partners, and then exchange(交换 ) your ideas.

Talking

flat, villa(别墅 ), cottage, garden, pond

(池塘 )…bathroom, bedroom, dining

room, sitting room, hall, games room,

kitchen

My house is a flat on the 8th floor on the Yuan

Lin Road. There are 4 rooms…

My dream house is a villa/… with a big

garden/…

There are…

Homework

• Ex 5-6 in P43

• Finish your remaining exercises on the 18th English Times