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A lot of English families have got their own houses, but some peo ple live in flats. There are two floors in the traditional English house: the ground floor and the first floor. People in England like their homes and always show them to their visitors.
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On Saturday Mr Blake invites Mr Voronin to his place to spend an evening with his family.
The Blakes1 live in a house with a garden not far from London. There is a sitting room and a study downstairs. The kitchen is down stairs too. The sitting room is large and sunny. There is a sofa, two armchairs and a coffee table there. There is a standard lamp and a TV set there too. Above the sofa there is a nice wall lamp.
Beautiful plants make the room cosy.
In the kitchen there is an electric cooker, a refrigerator-freezerand a washing machine, but there isn’t a dishwasher. There are also some cupboards with plates, cups, glasses, knives, forks and spoons.
The study is a small room with bookshelves on the walls. Upstairs there are 3 bedrooms and a bathroom.
The Blakes love their house and think: “There is no place like home”2.
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Now Mr
Blake and Mr Voronin are sitting
near the
fireplace in
Mr Blake’s study.
Voronin:
This is a lovely room, Mr Blake.
Blake:
I’m glad you like it. It’s always a pleasure to
sit here and
read newspapers and magazines after a long day in the of
Voronin:
fice. And where do you live in Moscow, Mr Voronin?
We live in a three-roomflat in a new district of Moscow.
Blake:
Is your flat comfortable?
Voronin:
Yes, very. There’s much built-in
furniture in our hall
and in the kitchen. The windows are large and the rooms
Blake:
are light.
In which room do you like to spend evening hours?
Voronin:
In the sitting room. We usually watch television, see films
Blake:
on the DVD-playeror listen to music on compact disks.
Yes, it’s always nice to spend a quiet evening with the