Your first apartment

What's in the lesson

1. 1Warm-up
2. 2In this lesson
3. 3Guess the words (1)Vocabulary exercise
4. 4Guess the words (2)Vocabulary exercise
5. 5Check the wordsVocabulary
6. 6Check your understandingReading comprehension
7. 7Listen: a message for the landlordListening comprehension
8. 8Use the new wordsVocabulary exercise
9. 9What does it mean?Grammar exercise
10. 10Find just, already and yetGrammar exercise
11. 11just, already, yetGrammar rule
12. 12Moving dayGrammar exercise
13. 13Say it right: just, already, yetSpeaking practice
14. 14Calling the landlordSpeaking practice
15. 15Let's discussDiscussion
16. 16Wrap-up

Homework

1. 1Homework: closest meaningVocabulary exercise
2. 2Homework: your sentencesVocabulary exercise
3. 3Homework: find the mistakeGrammar exercise
4. 4Homework: an email to my landlordDiscussion

Words

• landlord/ˈlændlɔːrd/

  a person who owns a house or an apartment and lets other people live there for money

• tenant/ˈtenənt/

  a person who pays money to live in someone else's house or apartment

• rent/rent/

  the money you pay every month to live in a place (also a verb: rent an apartment)

• lease/liːs/

  a contract you sign for a home, often for one year

• deposit/dɪˈpɑːzɪt/

  money you pay at the start and get back at the end, when nothing is broken

• utilities/juːˈtɪlətiz/

  services like water, electricity and gas for a home

• repair/rɪˈper/

  to fix something that is broken (also a noun: a repair)

• leak/liːk/

  a small hole that lets water or gas out (also a verb: the roof leaks)

• clogged/klɑːɡd/

  blocked, so water can't go through

• plumber/ˈplʌmər/

  a person who fixes water pipes, sinks and toilets

Two slides from the lesson

Warm-up

Let's talk about homes.

1. Have you ever rented an apartment? How was it?
2. What is the most important thing in a home for you?
3. Have you ever had a problem with a neighbor?

Grammar rule

just, already, yet

with the present perfect (have / has + past participle)

Word	Meaning	Example
just	a very short time ago	She has just moved in. (between has and the past participle)
already	it happened, maybe sooner than we expected	She's already met her neighbors. (between has and the past participle)
yet	until now (in questions and negatives)	She hasn't unpacked yet. Have you called the landlord yet? (at the end)

In American English, people often use the past simple with just, already and yet, too: I just called him. Did you eat yet? Both are correct. In this course, we practice the present perfect.