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45 Expand your vocabulary: Living arrangements – part 2 Find out the meaning of the green expressions in the vocabulary appendix or a dictionary. Then use them to create ‘odd one out’ tasks for your classmates. Here’s an example: estate agent – electrician – budget – tenant . Which word doesn’t fit? Why? Work with a partner. Write a list of requirements or problems mentioned in the texts. Agree on possible solutions to these problems. Example: little money – get cheap flat, find flatmates, get a job. LANGUAGE 9 M pp. 19+20 In order to make ends meet on a student budget , I decided to share a flat with three other people doing the same university course as me. It’s a great way to live! You save money by sharing the rent, utility bills and the home insurance , and you have a lot of fun at the same time. There’s always someone to hang out with. The only problem is if one of your flatmates is messy and refuses to do their share of the household chores, like doing the dishes. Also, sometimes things go wrong which you can’t fix. Our central heating broke in the middle of the winter. Luckily, the landlady sent a plumber to repair it, but it was freezing cold for a few days. A Despite the high cost, I managed to get myself a nice little loft apartment after I had finished school. I work in a well-paid part-time job , so I can afford the rent. I’m really pleased with this place – it’s stylish and has all the amenities I need, like a dishwasher, washing machine, dryer and even air conditioning . It’s not particularly spacious , but it’s in a nice residential area and there’s even a housekeeper who comes by every week and cleans the apartment. As soon as the estate agent showed me around, I knew I wanted to live here. It’s a cool neighbourhood. The only disadvantage is the construction site next door where they’re building new apartments; it’s often quite noisy on the balcony . B If you ask me, on-campus student accommodation is the only way to live as a student. Of course, you have to be pretty sociable and open-minded – after all, you’re sharing a lot of the facilities with others –, but it’s worth it. There’s a communal bathroom and kitchen, but only for 10 students, which isn’t too bad. Living on campus means you don’t have to commute to uni, you’re already there. That means you can sleep in a bit longer in the mornings! The hall of residence I stayed in was nice and clean. But when I spent a semester in the USA, I shared my dorm room with two students and a family of cockroaches . C SPEAKING + WRITING 10 Write your own text to go with Cheryl’s statement. Include some of the new expressions from exercise 9. Create a timeline about how you want to live in the future. How and where will you live when you are 20, 30 or 50 years old? Consider what you will need and how you will finance it. You have read the first two sentences of text C in a blog on the advantages of living on campus. Comment on them in around 200 words. WRITING 11 12 13 Nur zu Prüfzwecken – Eigentum des Verlags öbv