INTERVIEWS EXTRA 4
ELEMENTARY UNIT 4 B Complete answers 1–7 with the words in the box.
1 OVERVIEW: Watch the video. Is your house similar or
different to the houses they talk about?
2 Read Hina’s introduction. Then watch the video
from 0:01 to 0:24 and underline the correct
alternative.
I 1live/work in Covent Garden, a 2quiet/busy and
3boring/exciting part of London. My flat is 4big/small,
but I like living here because it’s near the 5park/river
and there are lots of shops and 6cafés/restaurants.
Where do you 7live/work?
Where do you live?
3 Watch the video from 0:24 to 0:53. Number the
places in the order you hear them, 1–8.
a Notting Hill
b West Berlin
c Shoreditch
d Brisbane
e North London 1 What don’t you like about where you live?
f Bloomsbury
g East Sussex
h South London
Do you live in a house or a flat?
4 A Watch the video from 0:55 to 1:25. How many
people live in a house?
B Watch the video again from 0:55 to 1:25. Underline
the correct alternative.
1 I live in a brick-built house, two/three bedrooms.
2 I live in a house/flat.
3 I live in a flat/house.
4 It’s a white house. It’s at the end of a little street
that’s just off one of the main roads, um, and it’s
quite quiet/noisy.
5 It’s a one-bedroom/two-bedroom flat.
6 I live in a house, a four-bedroom house, with
three/four other people.
7 In a flat/house.
8 It’s a modern flat/space, it’s one bedroom, uh,
quite small, but it’s very nice.
What do you like about where you live?
5 A Read the words in the box. Watch the video from
1:27 to 2:22 and tick the words that you hear.
barbecues ✔ school parks café museums
theatres fun airport comfortable suburb
pleasant quiet
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1 I like the garden. We’ve got a garden … and we
have barbecues there. I think that’s good.
2 I can catch a bus from anywhere, come home and I
feel comfortable walking home at 12, 1 o’clock at
night because there’s so many people around.
3 It’s only just two flats in the building so I only have
one neighbour, who’s very um, sweet and
fun as well …
4 We have parks , we have restaurants –
French restaurants, Italian restaurants.
5 It looks out over a small valley that’s just in our
suburb , so you can see all the other houses
around and the trees …
6 I’m close to the museum , universities,
teaching hospitals. It’s easy to get about …
7 Everyone says ‘hello’ in the morning and ‘good
evening’ in the aernoon, and it’s a pleasure
place to live.
C Watch the video again from 1:27 to 2:22 and check
your answers to Exercise 5B.
6 A Watch the video from 2:24 to 3:00. How many
people talk about the tube?
B Watch the video again from 2:24 to 3:00. Match the
sentence halves.
1 What I don’t like about it is that, at times I have to
get the Northern line on the tube … e
2 It’s quite …
3 Well, it’s quite crowded, there’s quite a lot of …
4 It’s always …
5 There isn’t actually anything …
6 Sometimes, because it’s in the middle of a city …
7 It’s nowhere near a tube station …
a noisy on the streets.
b busy.
c I don’t like about it. I really like it there.
d it can be very dusty and polluted.
e and it takes me 50 minutes to get to work.
f I have to get the bus all the time.
g rubbish on the streets. There’s too many cars and
not enough places for children to play.
7 Work in pairs. Discuss the questions with your
partner.
1 Where do you live?
2 Do you live in a house or a flat?
3 What do you like about where you live?
4 What don’t you like about where you live?
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