My Ideal Home: Name No. Class Date Mark Teacher
My Ideal Home: Name No. Class Date Mark Teacher
My Ideal Home: Name No. Class Date Mark Teacher
I – Reading
My ideal home
It’s eleven o’clock. It’s a lovely day. Today everybody is at
home because it’s Saturday. I enjoy being at home because it
is really cool.
The great thing about my house is that it is in the
5 countryside but near the city where my parents work and I go
to school. There is a small lake in front of the house, so we
don’t need a swimming pool. There is also a garden with different flowers and trees. I love to be
close to nature and to wake up and listen to the birds, to play outside with my dog and go
rowing in our little boat.
10 Every member of the family has a favourite room in the house. My mother spends her free
time reading by the fireplace in the living room or in the garden in the summer. The big kitchen
is my dad’s favourite room. He loves cooking and inventing delicious meals. He is there right now
making lunch. Mmmm! It smells good! My brother is in the attic where we have a table to play
table tennis and a big screen to watch films. He goes there to play the guitar. I love my bedroom.
15 I have everything I like there. There is a big window and I can see the beautiful lake.
We have a lot of technology at home, like a robot vacuum cleaner, an automatic ironing
machine and other gadgets to help us. This way we have more free time.
There are so many things I can do here! For example, last weekend I invited some friends to
visit me. We swam in the lake, we went fishing with my dad and we went for walks. We had a
20 good time!
Brian Spencer
A Are these sentences True (T) or False (F)? Correct the false ones.
T F
1. The weather isn’t nice. ___________________________________
2. The family is at home because it’s the
___________________________________
weekend.
3. They live far from the city. ___________________________________
4. They don’t need a swimming pool because
___________________________________
they don’t like swimming.
5. Brian spends his free time in the open air. ___________________________________
B Complete the sentences according to the information in the text. Write one or two words
in each space.
1. Brian’s mother’s favourite place in the house is the ____________________. She likes
____________________ her books there.
2. At the moment Brian’s father ____________________ a delicious lunch.
3. Brian’s brother likes playing the ____________________ in the ____________________.
4. Brian’s favourite place in the house is his ____________________. When he looks out of the
window, he can see ____________________.
II – Vocabulary
III – Grammar
A Look at the picture. Complete the sentences with the correct prepositions of place.
C
B Complete with the superlative of the adjectives in brackets.
1. Brian is _____________________________ (curious) member of his family.
2. The Spencers’ house is _____________________________ (modern) in that area.
3. That tree is _____________________________ (tall) in the Spencers’ garden.
IV – Writing
I – Reading
A. 1. F – It’s a lovely day. 2. T 3. F – They live near the city. 4. F – They don’t need a swimming pool
because there is a small lake in front of the house. 5. T
B. 1. living room; reading 2. is cooking 3. guitar; attic 4. bedroom; the lake
C.
1. He lives in the countryside but near the city.
2. Yes, it is. They have robots and machines to make their life easier, so they have more free time to do
what they like.
3. They swam in the lake, they went fishing and they went for walks. They had fun.
II – Vocabulary
A. 1. vacuuming 2. doing the washing up 3. taking out the rubbish 4. ironing
B. 1. bedroom 2. bathroom 3. kitchen
III – Grammar
A. 1. on 2. Below in front of 3. next to 4. between
B. 1. better than 2. more comfortable than 3. older than
C. 1. the most curious 2. the most modern 3. the tallest
IV – Writing
Personal answer