Стр.80 Unit 8 ГДЗ Вербицкая Forward 11 класс

08 Where the heart is

Read, listen and talk about home, houses and places. Practise relative clauses; vocabulary for describing houses. Focus on identifying attitude; being tentative. Write a description of a memorable place.

GRAMMAR AND READING

1. In pairs, look at photos A–C and answer the questions.

   1. Where do you think the places are? Why do you think so?
   2. What kind of people might live in or visit these places? Give reasons.
   3. Which place would you choose to live in if you could? Why?

   A Casa Milà
   B GoldenEye
   C Dakota

2. Read the article and check your answers in Exercise 1. Which person did not live in the place he is associated with?

   Antoni Gaudí
   Ian Fleming
   John Lennon

   A life of their own

   There are countless places all over the world that have taken on a life of their own, far beyond the people who built or lived in them. This week in our series Where the Heart Is we take a look at some of them.

   A Casa Milà, commonly known as La Pedrera (the Quarry), was commissioned as an apartment block in 1905 by Roger Milà, who was a rich Catalan businessman. It is one of several distinctive buildings in Barcelona that can be immediately identified as the work of Antoni Gaudí. The highly unconventional absence of any straight lines in his buildings is precisely what made Gaudí’s work so original. He was fascinated by the natural world and incorporated nature’s curves into his surrealistic architecture, which created much controversy at the time. Many people describe La Pedrera’s undulating balconies as a series of waves or sand dunes, like sculptures.

   1)

   B GoldenEye was the Caribbean home of the author Ian Fleming, whose 007 thrillers made him world famous. Fleming, who had worked in Jamaica during World War II and fallen under its spell, later built a house there. He moved there permanently in the early 1950s, and it is where he wrote all the James Bond novels. Surrounded by lush tropical vegetation, it is set on the magnificent Jamaican coastline.

   2)

   Since his death in 1964, however, the place has been sold. It has now been refurbished, but the master bedroom still contains the desk he wrote at. He once said: “Would these books have been born if I hadn’t been living in the gorgeous vacuum of a Jamaican holiday? I doubt it.”

   C The imposing nine-storey Dakota building is in West 72nd Street. It had little claim to fame until the early 1970s, when it was just another fashionable address for the wealthy New Yorkers that lived there.

   3)

   More notoriously, it was the site of his murder on December 8, 1980.

   4)

   People from all over the world now visit the Dakota, which shows how deeply admired John still is. They also lay flowers at the Strawberry Fields Memorial, which is nearby in Central Park.

3. Think Back! What are the underlined relative pronouns in the article used for? Complete the table.

   relative pronouns used for
   people
   things
   possessive
   time
   place

4. Complete the article with sentences a–d.

   1. a) He had just arrived home with his wife, Yoko Ono, who had been recording a new single that afternoon.
   2. b) It’s an area which all Fleming’s friends loved visiting because of its secluded beaches.
   3. c) The building, which many considered ugly at first, is today a UNESCO World Heritage site.
   4. d) It was the man who later killed him, Mark Chapman.