The LEGO house
READING
1 Match the words in the list with the photos. Then listen, check and repeat.
2 Drag the verbs in the list to the rooms. (Some verbs go with more than one room.)
3 SPEAKING Work in pairs. Have you got the same ideas? What other activities do you do in these rooms?
4 SPEAKING Look at the photos. What can you say about the house?
5 Read and listen to the magazine article.
The LEGO® house
A few years ago in August, there was a very long queue of people in the countryside near London, in England. Some people started queuing at 4.30 in the morning. Why were they there? They wanted to help James May, a TV presenter, to build a house. But this was not an ordinary house. No, this was a LEGO house.
Together, 1,200 people used 3.3 million (yes, 3,300,000) LEGO toy bricks to make a real house.
It was part of a TV show called Toy Stories. In the programmes, James May used traditional toys to make ‘real’ things. Why LEGO? Well, because when he was young, James May loved LEGO and played with it all the time.
The people finished building the house on 17 September, almost seven weeks after they started. Everything was LEGO. All the walls, doors and windows were LEGO. There was a LEGO bedroom and a LEGO bed. There was a LEGO bathroom with a LEGO toilet and a shower – and they worked! In the kitchen there was a LEGO fridge (but no cooker) and there were LEGO tables and chairs. There was even a LEGO cat. James May stayed in the house one night and was surprised because the bed was quite comfortable.
At first, a theme park called LEGOLAND planned to buy the house, but later they decided not to. James May tried to find another buyer. He started a Facebook page and asked other people to buy it, but nobody wanted it. So on 22 September, they started to take the house to pieces. A few days later, there wasn’t a LEGO house any more.
James May was not happy about it as more than 1,000 people worked hard to build the house and everything inside it. Other people were not so sad. The television company donated the three million LEGO pieces to a charity for children.
Choose the correct option.
THINK VALUES
Community spirit
1 Read what people said about the LEGO house. Match the activities with the comments.
2 SPEAKING Put the activities in Exercise 1 in order of importance for you. Compare your ideas with a partner.
[latex]\Box[/latex] working together
[latex]\Box[/latex] being creative
[latex]\Box[/latex] having fun
[latex]\Box[/latex] caring for others
GRAMMAR
Past simple (regular verbs)
1 Find the past simple forms of these verbs in the article and write them below. Then complete the rules.
2 Complete the sentences. Use the past simple form of the verbs.
VOCABULARY
Furniture
1 Write the names of the furniture under the pictures.
carpet | chest of drawers | coffee table | curtains | desk | lamp | mirror | oven | shelves | shower | sink | wardrobe
2 SPEAKING Work in pairs. Where are these things in your house? Tell your partner.