HOUSE OF MY DREAM

         Everyone likes dreaming. Dream is a hope for better things. It helps us to overcome the difficulties of our daily routine. A dream depends on people, on their education, nationality, cha­racter and other things. People imagine they have a lot of mo­ney, own family, an expensive car. Other people imagine them­selves to be presidents of different countries or whole planets, etc.

          I’d like to tell you about the house of my dream. I’d like to have my own house on the bank of a beautiful river with crys­tal water, surrounded by high mountains, covered with green forest of evergreen trees.

          I would live there with my wife and two children. I imagine my house to be a 2 storeyed building. Near the front side it has a facade with columns and steps up to the front door. There are also two balconies and a terrace in my house. The windows are in the shape of arches. Through them you can see a won­derful landscape. There are lots of fir trees and flowers around the house. And you can walk in the shade of these trees liste­ning to the birds singing.

           As you come through the front door, you find yourself in a large hall with an open fireplace. One of the doors leads to the living room. This room faces the south, so it’s very sunny and has a lovely view of the whole valley. In the middle of this room there’s a thick Persian carpet.

         There are few units of furniture in this room. On the left there’s a leather sofa and small table nearby, on the right you can see home cinema and satellite receiver. There are two arm­chairs in the corner of this room. In the living room we spend our evenings chatting with each other, children play with a kitten.

         Then a wide staircase takes you to the first floor where there are four bedrooms. My children’s rooms are really vast. The wallpapers are very colourful in bright shapes. Also there are lots of toys to play with.

        In the basement there is a big garage for our cars. We have got two cars: one for me and one for my wife.

         Behind the house there is a swimming bath, covered with glass. There are some plastic armchairs around the swimming bath. Our house looks peaceful and calm and the calmest room is my study. Next door to the study there is our library. It is a huge room with thousands books on history, astronomy, phys­ics, science fictions, fantasy, poetry, etc. Someone might think that it is an antagonism, because everything we want to read we can receive via Internet, but I like real books, to handle them in my hands, to read them page by page. As for my chil­dren, they prefer associating with their friends.

          We have many different electrical appliances in our house. They make our life more comfortable. Also we have some ro­bots to help us. They look after the house, grow vegetables in our garden and involved in cooking. So, we enjoy having greens and fresh vegetables on our dinner table during long winters. Our house is a beautiful place at any time of the year. In winter it’s warm and cozy, in summer there is so much to do outside.

QUESTIONS:

1. Why do people like dreaming?

2. Where would I like to have my own house?

3. How many rooms and floors are there in my house?

4. What can you see in my living room?

5. What can you see in the children’s rooms?

6. What is there in the basement?

7. What makes our life more comfortable?

VOCABULARY:

to dream — мечтать, грезить

to overcome (past overcame, p.p. overcome) — превозмочь; преодолеть

routine — рутина

expensive — дорогой

crystal — кристально чистый

surrounded — окруженный

ever green — вечно зеленый

facade — фасад

terrace — терраса

shape — форма, очертание

arch — арка

landscape — ландшафт, пейзаж

fir tree — елка

shade — тень

fireplace — камин

to lead (past led, p.p. led) to — вестив

valley — долина

carpet — ковер

furniture — мебель

leather — кожа

nearby — вблизи, поблизости, около, возле

satellite receiver — спутниковый приемник

armchairs — кресла

to chat — непринужденно болтать, беседовать, разгова­ривать

kitten — котенок

staircase — лестница

vast — обширный, громадный

wallpaper — обои

toy — игрушка

basement — подвал, (полу)подвальный этаж

garage — гараж

calm — спокойный, мирный

study — кабинет, рабочий кабинет

huge — большой, гигантский, громадный, огромный

to receive — получать, принимать

via — посредством чего-л., с помощью чего-л.

to handle — вручать

to associate — общаться с кем-л.

electrical appliances — электрические приборы

to look after — присматривать, смотреть за

to grow (past grew, p.p. grown) — расти, вырастать

to involve — касаться, затрагивать

to cook — готовить, стряпать