OTHER WAYS OF LIVING.

TEXT 1. READING: Meet the couple who quit citylife for vanlife.


1. Do you prefer city life or country life?

2. What do you think of living on the road?

Read the text and answer:

VOCABULARY:


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Meet the couple who quit Citylife for Vanlife.

Could you swap your bed, job, privacy – and shower – to live on the road?

• Neelam Tailor HuffPost 
   Becky Wixon, 25, and Simone Picknett, 27 laugh as they describe a #vanlife image on Instagram – a picture-perfect lifestyle far from reality. They make fun of the glamorous stereotype of the vanlife movement on social media. It’s a lifestyle that’s  more attainable , they argue.
  “You can just buy a van and put a mattress in it and you can be doing your own van life. It doesn’t need to be this luxurious thing,” explains Wixon. “I think a lot of people do it because they want to get Instagram-famous. We did it because we wanted our time together.
  
   The couple were earning £25,000 and £27,000 in advertising and musical equipment repairs . In just five short months, they  saved up £14,000 by freelancing and selling almost all of their possessions. Now everything the couple owns fits in a backpack.
  
   The act was physically and mentally liberating. “We had a car boot sale and earned almost a grand for all our old stuff,” says Picknett. “We realised that actually we don’t need these things and we don’t miss anything.”
  
  

  

  
  
  
  

  The pair shower once every three to five days and they don’t buy new clothes.  They’re also learning new skills to keep costs down, skills which the best of us could use to reduce our bills – like how to shower quickly.
  
  Do they have a toilet? Yes, but “Normally I just shit in the woods.” One flush of a regular toilet uses the same amount of water they now use in a week.
  
  
  

  For the moment, they are living off their  savings but they plan to sustain life on the road with their art and music . But why did they make this transformative decision? The pair realised things needed to change after writing a list of what they wanted in life: being together, living in nature, making music full-time, and seeing the world. Ultimately, they didn’t want to wait until retirement to enjoy freedom of body and mind – and they encourage anyone who feels the same to take the leap.
  
  
   TRUE or FALSE. Give some evidence to justify the false ones.

a. Becky and Simone are in their twenties. _______

b. Now , they have many things______

c. You can check on Instagram to see what real vanlife is about. _____

d. They sold everything they had before their new life _______

e. They feel more free. _______

f. They had to cut down on expenses _____


ANSWER

What did they have to change?

Would you do something similar? Would you be able to quit the comforts for a different life? Why or Why not?

Do you know other people with similar experiences?


TEXT 2. About other ways of building houses. 



Enter Oscar and Liza's blog and answer.

1. Where do they live? What do they do for a living?

2. What is an earthship?

3. Did they build it alone?

4. Do they have the same routines as you?


BUSINESS ENGLISH. SPEAKING ON THE PHONE. 

Listen do and practice the dialogue as shown in the video.

 

 

1. Copy the new dialogue on your notebook. 

2. Do the exercise online. 

3. Do some more practice. Copy the sentences on your notebook. 

4. Practice. Taking a message. 

5. Practice. Ordering a pizza. 


GRAMMAR REVISION. 

1. WH- questions. 

2. Past form

3.  Comparatives and Superlatives. 

4. Too, too much, to many, enough.  

 SIMPLE PAST

5. Simple past practice. 

 6.  Past Continuous and Past Simple.  Do exercises 1, 2 and 3.

Reading. 

1. How to play Carrom.  

2. A lost Egyptian Queen found.  

3. Chinese New Year. 

 

Listening

1. The city I live in.  

2. My friends.  

3. Two Americans living in London.  

 4. Learning a new job.