Intro
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What would your dream house look like? Would there be a pool, a big game room, a beautiful garden? Don’t forget to add a front porch!
Porches look nice on houses, but they’re also useful. You can put a table and chairs on a porch and eat your dinner our there on warm summer nights. Some neighbors can talk to one another from their porches, and a porch can also be used to keep a lookout on the street. Hear Amy and Jeff talk about porches.
Dialog
1. Listen and Read - Listen to the audio and read the dialog at the same time.
2. Study - Read the dialog again to see how the vocab words are used.
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Amy: Do you have a porch on your house, Jeff?
Jeff: I have a back deck.
Amy: Hmm. Not really the same as a porch. Not a front porch.
Jeff: What would your description be of a porch?
Amy: Oh, you know, like a big covered deck in the front of your house, and you can, you know, go out there, hang out, sit on a porch swing, keep a lookout on the neighborhood. I just love houses with porches. I think they’re so pretty.
Jeff: Yeah, they’re pretty fun. A lot of porches in college, I remember. A lot of people lived in houses with porches, and they would spend a lot of time out there if the weather was nice enough, or people would smoke usually, step outside.
Amy: Right. Get a little fresh air.
Jeff: Yeah.
Amy: I just think it’s a really great feature for a house.
Jeff: It is. Oh, actually, I don’t know how this slid by me, but my girlfriend has a large front porch.
Amy: And do you use it?
Jeff: Not so much right now because it’s cold out, but in the summertime it’s real nice.
Amy: Right? I mean, I like a back deck, too, but the nice thing about a front porch is, when it is summertime and multiple houses on the same street all have porches, you can go out there, and while you’re hanging out on your porch, maybe your neighbors are hanging out on theirs, and you can talk across the yards. It’s pretty social, great for parties.
Jeff: Yeah, it can also get you in trouble though, with parties. People stepping outside, being real loud late at night. They want to hang out on the porch.
Amy: That’s true.
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Discussion
Amy loves houses with porches. She likes the way they look, and she thinks they are a fun place to hang out, especially if there’s a porch swing.
Jeff agrees that porches can be fun hang out spots. He had a lot of friends in college who lived in houses with porches. His girlfriend lives in a house with a porch, too.
You can eat dinner on your porch, keep a lookout on the neighborhood, or spend time there during a party. But partying on a porch is dangerous, because if the party gets too loud, the neighbors might get upset.
Have you ever lived in a house with a porch? Describe your dream house.
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My parents have got a detatched house with a porch, a big garden and three garages. On their property there is also another, smaller house where our next neighbor lives in who pays rent to my father. My parents own a holiday house at the coast of the Baltic Sea, too. When I was younger, I used to wish that I lived in a castle-tower as in fairytales with a big marble staircase. But then I noticed how difficult it is to find furniture for a room with a round wall I wonder how it will be like in the New Jerusalem. How houses would look like in that city the Bible book of Revelation describes in chapter 21. |
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My dream house is the traditional Korean-style house such as the link. It’s called ‘Hanok’ in Korean. |
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hope my dream house will be that world where all human colours will love each other |
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The music and the foreign languages need a regular practice for long time. I used to play piano long time ago, but I’m afraid I will not able to play even the simplest piece of music on piano now ( though I played quite complicated music long time ago). I have lost my practice and nothing can be done |
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