Archi Technical English 2nd Grade

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Technical English program

Department: Architecture
Level: 2nd grade
Academic year: 2021 – 2022

Prepared by Sékou KABA


Phone: 622 26 94 32/666152121/656077145
E-mail: [email protected]
Table of contents

Titles page

Types of house --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3-6

Describing one’s house ---------------------------------------------------------------- 7-8

House description (Clare house) listening practice --------------------- 9


House vocabularies ------------------------------------------------------------- 10-12
New house (listening exercise) ---------------------------------------------- 13
Reading text (the house) ------------------------------------------------------ 14
Places in the house (puzzle) ------------------------------------------------- 15
Parts of the house ------------------------------------------------------------- 16-17
Reading text (this is my house) --------------------------------------------- 18
Geometrical shapes and colors -------------------------------------------- 19-20-21
Types of house

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Describing one’s house

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STEP 1: ANSWERS THE QUESTIONS BY Right or Wrong?
1. The little girl lives in a house in Paris.
2. There is a swimming pool in the garden.
3. An atelier is right at the back of the garden.
4. She and her brother sleep in the same bedroom.
5. The bathroom is on the ground floor.

STEP 2: HERE ARE 4 IRREGULAR VERBS YOU'LL FIND IN THIS DIALOGUE.


1. Be
2. Have
3. Find
4. grow

STEP 3: CHOOSE THE RIGHT SENTENCES


1. I live in a semi-detached house. I leave in a semi-detached house. I live in a semi-
detached house.
2. Mine parents' bedroom is on the first floor. My parents s' bedroom is on the first floor.
My parents' bedroom is on the first floor.
3. We can play billiard in the attic. We can play billiards in the attic. We can play billiards in
the attic.
4. The garden is at the back of the house. The garden is on the back of the house. The
garden is at the house'back.
5. We has a small garden where we grow vegetables. We have a small garden where we
grow vegetables. We have a small garden where we grow vegetable.

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House description (Clare house) listening practice
Todd: OK, Clare we're going to talk about your house.
Clare: OK.
Todd: OK, do you live in a big house or a small house?
Clare: I live in quite a big house.
Todd: A big house. Really!
Clare: Mm!
Todd: OK, how many rooms does it have?
Clare: About 12.
Todd: Jeez! 12 rooms.
Clare: Yeah.
Todd: Wow. Is it a new house or old house?
Clare: It's about 80 years old.
Todd: Wow. OK. I guess. Well that's old for America, but that's probably not very old.
Clare: That's not very old for England.
Todd: Wow. OK. What is in your kitchen?
Clare: A big round table and a cooker.
Todd: OK. And what is in the living room?
Clare: A TV and a video.
Todd: OK. Do you watch TV a lot?
Clare: Yes.
Todd: OK. Uh, what do you watch on TV?
Clare: Anything. I don't really like watching sport.
Todd: Oh.
Clare: I like watching TV series.
Todd: Oh, wow, that's the only thing I like is sports
Clare: Some sports are OK. I don't like watching golf, snooker, and sports like that.
Todd: Yeah. OK. Great. Thanks.

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House vocabularies

1. A l'extérieur/Inside

1 La cheminée The chimney


2 Le toit The roof
3 La fenêtre The window
4 Le mur The wall
5 La façade The front
6 La porte The door

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2. A l'intérieur/Outside

1-2 La chambre The bedroom


3 La salle de bains The bathroom
4 Le salon The living room
5 La cuisine The kitchen
6 La cave The cellar

Questions:

1. When people build fires in their homes, the smoke comes out of the ______________________

2. Every morning, I have a shower in the _____________________________.

3. My mother and my father always cook in the _____________________________. I sometimes help


them.

4. The _____________________________ is the room where the champagne bottles are kept. This room
is under the house.

5. The _____________________________ is made of tiles. When there is a lot of wind, they can be blown
away.

6. In order to enter the house, you have to open the _____________________________.

7. Every night, my parents and I sleep in our respective _____________________________.

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8. The _____________________________ is the place in the house where I can watch TV while
lying down.

9. Thanks to the _____________________________, we can see outside and have light in the
house.

10. Without the four main _____________________________ the house would collapse.

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The New House"
Listening Exercise

Instructions.
Select the words that they mention in the dialogue. You will probably need to listen
to the dialogue more than once.
Listen to the dialogue
Rooms Furniture Other
bedroom sofa yard
bathroom table swimming pool
living room dresser
kitchen refrigerator
dining room bed

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Reading text

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Parts of the house

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Reading

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Geometrical shapes and colors

a. Shapes

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Mixed colours:

Primary colours Secondary colours

red + => purple

blue + => orange

yellow + => green

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