Page 19 - American English File Student Book 3B

2 PRONUNCIATION & SPEAKING
Comments sentence stress

Vivienne ©Montreal, C anada a 4 18))) Listen and repeat the sentences. Copy the rhythm .
If I had the money, I would
move out immediately. All I ı if ı lived on my own, i d have to pay rent.
want is som ew here that’s my 2 Would you leave home if you got a job?
own, where I can do what I 3 Even if ı could afford it, ı wouldn’t move out.
want, where I can have my
4 if it were my apartment, i d be happy to do the cleaning.
own furniture and pictures,
5 i d get along better with my parents if ı didn’t live at home.
where no one can tell me what
to do. If it were my place, I’d be
b > - Communication Guess the sentence A p.107 B p.109.
happy to do the cleaning and
things like that. I would take
c C hoose three o f the sentence beginnings below and complete
care of it. But right now it’s just
them in a way that is true for you.
a dream, because I can’t find
a job. .. .could live anywhere in my town or city, I’d live...
.. .won a “dream vacation” in a com petition, I’d go...

Mauro @Recife, Brazil .. .could choose any car I liked, I’d have a ...
I’m perfectly happy living at ...could choose my ideal job, I’d be...
home. If I lived on my own, ...had more time, I’d learn...
I’d have to pay rent, do the
.. .had to go abroad to work, I’d go to ...
housework, and the cooking.
Here my mother does my d W ork with a partner. A say your first sentence. Try to get the
laundry, she cleans my room, right rhythm . B ask for m ore inform ation. T hen say your
and of course she cooks, and first sentence.
her food is wonderful. I have a
If I could live anywhere in my city,' Why downtown?
nice room. I have my computer
I’d live downtown.
where I can watch TV... W hy
would I want to leave? Even if I
could afford it, I wouldn’t move
out. Not until I get married...

Andrea ©Melbourne, Australia
It isn’t that my parents aren’t
good to me - they are. If they
weren’t, I wouldn’t live with living room kitchen bedroom
them. But I just don’t feel
sofa washing machine lamp
independent. I’m 29, but I
som etim es worry that if I com e
back late after a night out, I’ll
find them still awake waiting up
for me. It’s never happened,
but it still m akes me want to
move out.

Carlos @ S a n Antonio, Texas a W ith a partner, w rite five words in each colum n.
I’d love to move out. I get along
well with my parents, but I think b > - p.162 Vocabulary Bank Houses.
I’d get along with them even
c A nsw er the questions w ith a partner.
better if I didn’t live at home. My
mother drives me crazy - it isn’t W hat’s the difference betw een...?
her fault, but she does. And I’d
1 the outskirts and the suburbs 5 a chimney and a fireplace
really like to have a dog, but my
2 a village and a town 6 the basement and the first floor
mother is allergic to them.
3 a roof and a ceiling 7 wood and wooden
4 a balcony and a deck

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