Стр.84-85 Unit 8 ГДЗ Вербицкая Forward 11 класс
No Place Like Home? Lizzie and David Dickson give us first-hand accounts of the pros and cons of living away from home Lizzie is studying History and American Studies at Nottingham University.
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No Place Like Home?
Lizzie and David Dickson give us first-hand accounts of the pros and cons of living away from home
Lizzie is studying History and American Studies at Nottingham University.
David recently completed Part One of a degree in architecture at the University of Newcastle.
Lizzie
There is no doubt that starting university is a daunting experience. Aside from the fact that in two days you meet at least 300 people but can remember only two of their names, it is the first time in your life that you become anonymous. Until this point, someone has always been haranguing you. So it seems inconceivable that it should just all stop when you get to university.
There is something vaguely anarchical about living in a hall of residence in your first year. Freed from the constraints of family life, you suddenly find yourself in a place where the cheese toastie is seen as a valid source of nutrition, your music is not referred to as taskthat awful rackettask, and you wontaskt be judged for wearing your pyjamas to lunch. Or dinner.
1) Even if youtaskve had a gap year, this is a new kind of autonomy. Ittasks somehow more reckless and infinitely more communal. For some, moving into halls will mean an amazing regression in maturity - for example, setting off a fire alarm at four in the morning never seemed so funny.
Halls never sleep. Neither, it would seem, do the pizza delivery men who service them. No matter what time of the day or night, you will always find doors open, a bass thudding, or a kettle boiling. At first, you wonder how you will ever sleep with this constant noise. When you go home, you wonder how to sleep without it.
2) And at university, the seven-day week becomes strangely inverted. The weekend starts on Monday, and at the real weekend half the hall mysteriously disappears and nobody goes out because ittasks too expensive. At 5.30 on a cold, dark Sunday afternoon in November, a thought occurs to you. Wouldntaskt it be nice to be at home? To eat a proper meal and have a parent tell you to go to bed, because, really, you are quite run-down?
But then Monday comes. And there is life, you have a purpose, youtaskve got hockey training, youtaskve handed in an essay and you can get excited about the prospect of a full five nights of flinging your limbs around in an over-capacitated nightclub. You might actually never go home again.
David
One of the main things you learn from going away to university is that the grass is always greener. You cantaskt wait to leave home to go there, but it only takes about a term for the novelty of life in halls to wear off.
While it was once exciting to be living with a thousand strangers, it doesntaskt take long to realise that you have nothing in common with the majority of them. Awkward conversations with people you still vaguely recognise from Fresherstask Week become tiresome, and youtaskve had enough of people stealing food from the communal fridge. In short, you long to get into a place of your own.
3) Ah … a place of my own - every studenttasks dream. Somewhere I can be with people I like, where I can eat food that I want, when I want. A place I can decorate to my taste, where I can watch what I want on TV and have impromptu parties when the mood takes me. A place where fire alarms wontaskt wake me at 5 a.m. and the washing machine will clean my clothes.
Inevitably, these dreams of domestic bliss are short-lived when, a few weeks into independent living, you realise the house wontaskt clean itself, bills dontaskt go away if you just ignore them, and youtaskre not quite the gourmet chef you thought you were. Early morning fire alarms are now replaced by housemates chucking stuff at your window when theytaskve locked themselves out. And now, when the washing machine floods, ittasks you that have to deal with it.
4) Of course in the second year these minor inconveniences are easily ignored. Who cares about squalor and a diet of cereal when there is so much else going on? But, by the third year, going out every night of the week is no longer so alluring, and the pressure of work means that more time is spent at home. You realise ittasks quite nice to eat a good meal on a regular basis and that it isntaskt that difficult to keep a place clean.
So, what have I learnt from leaving home? That I can bear a considerable amount of grime before feeling compelled to clean and that it costs a lot to run a tumble dryer. And, strangely, that the home you so longed to get away from three years before, the one where someone else cooks and cleans and pays for the electricity, no longer seems quite so bad after all.
READING AND VOCABULARY
1 In pairs, discuss these questions.
1 What are the advantages of living away from home, e.g. in a hall of residence?
2 What things about living at home would you miss? Why?
2 Read the article: Who feels more positive about living away from home?
3 Complete gaps 1-4 in the article with four of paragraphs A-E. There is one extra paragraph.
A And at university, the seven-day week becomes strangely inverted. The weekend starts on Monday, and at the real weekend half the hall mysteriously disappears and nobody goes out because ittasks too expensive. At 5.30 on a cold, dark Sunday afternoon in November, a thought occurs to you. Wouldntaskt it be nice to be at home? To eat a proper meal and have a parent tell you to go to bed, because, really, you are quite run-down?
B Of course in the second year these minor inconveniences are easily ignored. Who cares about squalor and a diet of cereal when there is so much else going on? But, by the third year, going out every night of the week is no longer so alluring, and the pressure of work means that more time is spent at home. You realise ittasks quite nice to eat a good meal on a regular basis and that it isntaskt that difficult to keep a place clean.
C It can also prove difficult to understand the concept of taking responsibility for your own education. After a couple of weeks of dutiful lecture attendance, it dawns on you that you dontaskt have to go, and whattasks more, that nobody will notice if you dontaskt go. Ittasks only much later on that you realise you really should have gone … but then ittasks too late.
D Even if youtaskve had a gap year, this is a new kind of autonomy. Ittasks somehow more reckless and infinitely more communal. For some, moving into halls will mean an amazing regression in maturity - for example, setting off a fire alarm at four in the morning never seemed so funny.
E Ah … a place of my own - every studenttasks dream. Somewhere I can be with people I like, where I can eat food that I want, when I want. A place I can decorate to my taste, where I can watch what I want on TV and have impromptu parties when the mood takes me. A place where fire alarms wontaskt wake me at 5 a.m. and the washing machine will clean my clothes.
4 Match the highlighted words in the article to the synonyms below.
1 unthinkable
2 much
3 annoying
4 spontaneous
5 criticising
6 attractive
7 lawless
8 reversed
9 obliged
10 uncomfortable
5 Are these statements true or false? Find the underlined words and phrases in the article to help you.
1 If something is short-lived, it doesntaskt last long.
2 If there is the prospect of something, it is likely to happen.
3 If the novelty of something wears off, it becomes more attractive.
4 The grass is always greener if other peopletasks situation seems worse than yours.
5 When the mood takes me means taskwhen I feel like ittask.
6 If you have an idea early in the morning, you can say taskit dawned on metask.
7 A place that is over-capacitated has very few people in it.
8 A person who is run-down is tired and unhealthy.
6 Complete the gaps with a word or phrase from Exercises 4 and 5. Sometimes you need to make changes to the phrase.
1 Sheila felt quite uncomfortable when she bumped into her ex-boyfriend with his new girlfriend.
2 It suddenly dawned on me that Kim had been right all along.
3 You look a bit run-down. Maybe you should take some extra vitamins.
4 When the police started asking questions, Joe felt compelled to tell the truth.
5 Do we really have to fill in all these forms? Ittasks so tiresome.
6 At first I thought this new computer game was fun, but now the novelty (has) worn off.
7 Cherie seems quiet, but she can be very entertaining when the mood takes her.
8 Paul and his friends gave an impromptu performance of the song they had been practising.
7 In groups, discuss these questions.
• Which things mentioned in the article would you find most worrying, tiresome or alluring about living away from home?
• What taskhouse rulestask would you have if you were sharing a house with other students?
• What life skills do you think people learn when they first leave home?
8 T053 Song. Look at the song on page 135 and follow the instructions.
Текст аудирования:
Song: She’s Leaving Home — The Beatles
Wednesday morning at five o’clock as the day begins
Silently closing her bedroom door
Leaving the note that she hoped would say more
She goes downstairs to the kitchen clutching her handkerchief
Quietly turning the backdoor key
Stepping outside she is free
She (We gave her most of our lives)
Is leaving (Sacrificed most of our lives)
Home (We gave her everything money could buy)
She’s leaving home after living alone
For so many years
Father snores as his wife gets into her dressing gown
Picks up the letter that’s lying there
Standing alone at the top of the stairs
She breaks down and cries to her husband ‘Daddy our baby’s gone’
‘Why would she treat us so thoughtlessly?’
‘How could she do this to me?’
She (We never thought of ourselves)
Is leaving (Never a thought for ourselves)
Home (We struggled hard all our lives to get by)
She’s leaving home after living alone
For so many years
Friday morning at nine o’clock she is far away
Waiting to keep the appointment she made
Meeting a man from the motor trade
She (What did we do that was wrong?)
Is leaving (We didn’t know it was wrong)
Home (Love is the one thing that money can’t buy)
Something inside that was always denied
For so many years
She’s leaving home — bye-bye