Reach your A2: Lesson 6

Tuesday 20 August 2013

Lesson 6

A comfortable life!

What can you see in the picture?

How does it work?

Have you got one at home?

Could you live without it?

What did people do in the past when there wasn't any appliance like this?

Survey: How comfortable is your life?

Have you got...? :

an air conditioner
a mobile phone
a tumble dryer
an expresso maker
a computer, laptop or tablet
microwave oven
freezer
washing machine
hair dryer
blender
dishwasher
iron
kettle
mixer
printer
i pod, MP3 player
television
toaster
vacuum cleaner
fax machine

If you answered "Yes" to the majority of questions (from 16 to 20), you are living a very comfortable life and you could hardly survive without electricity;
if you answered "Yes" to a number of questions from 11 to 15, your life standard is quite comfortable, but you could still have a little possibility of surviving without electricity;
if you answered "Yes" to 10 or less questions, you must be declared "species under protection", because you are endangered, but you have the highest probability of surviving without electricity.

Apart from this survey, that is not serious at all, is there any device you are particularly fond of? And which one is not important at all?

Describe a device that you find useful.
You should say:
- what it is
- what you can do with it
- how often you use it
and explain why you find it so useful

Now watch this video and meet a very special refrigerator...

Runaway from Paper Planes on Vimeo.

Home sweet home... but what's behind our life style?
What happens to our appliances after use?

What did people do in the past without all our home appliances?

When people didn't have any air conditioner, they used a fan.
...

Revise vocabulary