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Reading lnside the farmhouse
f:'. Workinpairs.Makeuiti.tiitt". A there's enough room to ptay batt games.
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' : advantages' and ditadyantages,of, liying in.the, city, and, tiving. B the stairs make a lot of noise.
in the country. Then compare your answers with your partner. C there are very interesting lights.
D the floors upstairs aren't very thick.
2 Oo the exam task. Which is true about the [iving room?
A lt's a bit dark as the windows are very smatt.
B Each window lool<s out onto different scenery.
Read the text and choose the correct answers: A, B, C or D. C The window had to be changed recently.
D The window is good for observing animats.
A few years ago I moved with my famity from the city to
4 The narrator
the country, and we now [ive in an old farmhouse on the
A can't wait to move back to the city.
edge of a viltage. The house itsetf was buitt in the 1800s
B used to Iike the city sights and sounds.
and [ooks like something out of a nove[. lt's an otd stone
C steeps onty a few hours a day.
house with very thick walls. These watls make the house
D wanted to move here for the views.
stow to heat up in the winter, so we always have a fire in
5 According to the text, the narrator
the living room fireptace in the winter months. And it is
A stitt prefers the city.
atways cooI inside in the summer - too coot, actua[[y, as
B has got used to Iiving in the country but doesn't
the Engtish summers never get that warm!
feel happy.
For an old house, the ceilings are quite high, but they c is happy tiving in the farmhouse in the country.
are atso very thin. They are just the wooden floors of the D is planning to move back to the city.
upstairs rooms. When the Iights are on in the kitchen, they
shine through the ftoorboards into the bedroom above!
And when you walk around upstairs, you can hear every SrPga,king,',';',:",', :,,:,
step downstairs. Downstairs, the floors are made of black 3,,Do,the,exam',task.
stone and are old and uneven. ln fact, the whole house
isn't straight. lf you put a batt in the middle of the dining
room, it ro[[s immediately into the far right-hand corner. Compare and contrast the two photos. Answer the
questions.
The best thing about the house is the living room. lt is a
lovely, Iight room and I can spend hours looking out of the
window. The view is made even more interesting because
the window has the original glass in it, and each small
pane of glass is different and alters the view outside.
From the sofa you can look straight out into the garden,
and to the fields beyond. The scene is atways changing
and there is always something to see, incIuding lots of
different wildlife.
It has taken me a while to appreciate this view, though.
For a [ong time I missed the noise and the bustte of city
life. I preferred to see peopte, shops and buses on myway
to school, not fietds and trees. And it took me a long while
to be able to sleep wetl at night - it was too quiet! Now
I've got used to country [ife. I cycle everywhere and I tike
the space and freedom. But I never wait too long before
going back and visiting my old friends in the cityl
1 The otd farmhouse
A was buitt by the narrator's family. What are the main differences between the two ptaces
to live: a flat in the city and a house in the country?
B was described in a book a long time ago.
C takes a very [ong time to get warm. What could be good or bad about living in the city
D is better for the summer than for the winter. or the countryside?
3 ls it better to rent a place or save up and buy your own?
4 Which ptace would you prefer to tive in? Why?

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