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    The document discusses flat sharing and annoying habits that flatmates may have. It includes a podcast where several people discuss their experiences with flatmates, both positive and negative. They mention habits like being messy, noisy, or not cleaning up. The document also includes exercises where readers match speakers to flatmate habits and situations.

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    The document discusses flat sharing and annoying habits that flatmates may have. It includes a podcast where several people discuss their experiences with flatmates, both positive and negative. They mention habits like being messy, noisy, or not cleaning up. The document also includes exercises where readers match speakers to flatmate habits and situations.

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    The document discusses flat sharing and annoying habits that flatmates may have. It includes a podcast where several people discuss their experiences with flatmates, both positive and negative. They mention habits like being messy, noisy, or not cleaning up. The document also includes exercises where readers match speakers to flatmate habits and situations.

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    The document discusses flat sharing and annoying habits that flatmates may have. It includes a podcast where several people discuss their experiences with flatmates, both positive and negative. They mention habits like being messy, noisy, or not cleaning up. The document also includes exercises where readers match speakers to flatmate habits and situations.

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    speakout Upper Intermediate


    UNIT 1

    BEGINNINGS

    Overview

    Watch the video podcast. Do young people move away from their families and share
    flats together in your country? Whose opinions about flatmates do you agree with most?

    1 Read the sentences below about Pashas life in London. Then watch the video podcast from 0:120:24 and delete the incorrect word.

    Hi my name is Pasha, I work for the BBC as a producer, and I do a lot of


    DJ-ing in my spare time. I 1 lived / have lived in London for many years now
    with my friends and sometimes I 2 annoy / know them with my music. 3 What /
    How about you? Do you have any 4annoying / noisy habits?

    Pasha

    Glossary: annoying = making you feel slightly angry

    2 Do you have any annoying habits? Look at the people below and read the habits 1-7. Then watch the
    video podcast from 0:27-1:16 and match the people to the habits.

    Deborah

    Tamara

    E
    Chris

    Luke

    Mairi

    F
    Chaenara

    1 snoring when asleep

    G
    Relwyn

    2 biting her nails and talking a bit too loudly


    3 taking a long time to get to the point
    4 very messy
    5 talking too much
    6 bad at making decisions
    7 leaving clothes around the bedroom and not putting them away
    Glossary: messy = untidy and possibly dirty; snore = to breathe in a noisy way through your mouth and
    nose while you are asleep

    Pearson Education Limited 2011

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    speakout Upper Intermediate


    UNIT 1

    BEGINNINGS

    3 Do you have any experience of flat sharing? Watch the video podcast from 1:17- 2:18 and match the
    speakers A-E to the questions 1-3.

    A
    Tamara

    B
    Deborah

    Luke

    Mairi

    E
    Chris

    1 Who had messy and untidy flatmates?

    2 Whose flatmate(s) was/were noisy?

    3 Who had no real problems with their flatmates?

    4 What habits or qualities in a flatmate would you find most annoying? Read the habits and qualities
    in the box below, then watch the video podcast from 2:22-3:33 and tick () the habits the speakers
    mention. There are four extra habits that are NOT mentioned.
    Glossary: filth = dirt, especially a lot of it

    smoking playing computer games being insensitive making a lot of noise


    being messy being untidy being dirty staying in bed
    not clearing up after cooking a meal playing the bongo drums
    leaving the washing up talking too much

    The way we speak


    5 The people below talk about flat sharing and annoying habits. Read the sentences

    and write a word or phrase from the podcast with the same meaning as the words in
    brackets. Watch the video podcast from 1:19-1:55 again and check your answers.
    1 I guess a lot of students are just _________________ about that (do not
    care).

    Tamara

    2 Weve always _________________ (had a very good relationship) and had a


    really nice experience.

    Deborah

    3 So, in return, I would play music late at night when they were trying to sleep just
    to _________________ (do to them what they did to me).

    Chris

    Pearson Education Limited 2011

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    BEGINNINGS

    speakout Upper Intermediate


    UNIT 1

    4 Smoking would be definitely up there! I _________________ (really dislike)


    smokers.

    Luke

    5 Everything else is really not _________________ (important) but when youre


    flat sharing definitely tidiness is very important.

    Tamara

    6 Not tidying up after themselves, leaving a mess after cooking that sort
    of _________________ (thing).

    Relwyn

    Personalisation
    6 What habits or qualities in a flatmate would you find most annoying and why? Write a short
    paragraph below.
    ______________________________________________________________________________________
    ______________________________________________________________________________________
    ______________________________________________________________________________________
    ______________________________________________________________________________________

    BBC LINK
    Flat-sharing can provide an economical approach to accommodation, but what
    happens when it goes wrong?
    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7117581.stm

    Pearson Education Limited 2011

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