Assignments for 10.02.25

Navigate Upper-Intermediate / Watch the video Communal Living and do the ex-es 1, 2, 4 on slide 65

ex. 1 / Work with a partner to divide the words and phrases in the box into three categories of your choice.

Culture	Location	Communication
hippie	bay	look out for each other
counter culture	dock	tight-knit
vibrant hub of art, music, and politics	houseboat	neighbourly
	waterfront

ex. 2 / With a partner, decide how the words and phrases in exercise 1 might relate to the three photos.

1 — dock, look out for each other, houseboat, waterfront, counter culture
2 — hippie, vibrant hub of art, music, and politics, neighbourly, tight-knit
3 — bay, dock, waterfront, neighbourly

The decisions depend on the location, cultural diversity, community and etc.

ex. 4 / Watch the video again. Decide if the following statements are true or false.

Tourism is causing more and more people to move to San Francisco. False
The cost of houses in both Sausalito and and San Francisco is increasing. True
There are now several hundred houseboats in Sausalito. True
The houseboats were first converted in the 1940s. True
The houseboats do not have electricity or running water. False
There is still a strong sense of community and neighbourliness. True

Navigate Upper-Intermediate Review ex-es 1b, 2, 3, 4a, 6a

ex. 1b / Complete the article with a/an, the or — (no article).

It’s such a simple idea that you wonder why no one has ever thought of it before. Young students from Brazil want to learn English, and elderly Americans living in retirement homes are often lonely and want someone to talk to. So why not bring them together?

A Brazilian language school has done just that. The school set up a programme for young Brazilians and older Americans living in Chicago to meet and chat online. The lessons are recorded as private YouTube videos, so that the students’ teachers can evaluate their progress.

The students have improved their English, but perhaps the biggest gain has been the opportunity to bridge the gap between generations.

ex. 2 / Choose the correct options to complete the statements.

Many people in the UK now live alone – three times the number in 1971.
And relatively few people now live in households of six or more people.
Although many of people believe that more elderly people now live alone, in fact, the biggest increase in one-person households has come from those aged 16-59.
The quantity of over-sixties living alone has remained about the same, at 17%.
Almost every home now has a colour television, up from 74% in the 1980s.
And in 1972, only few homes had washing machines, but now 96% do.

ex. 3 / Choose the word which is different from the others in each group.