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Unit 7: buildings and “was / were”

Lessons 49–50 · 2 lessons · Susannah Reed with Kay Bentley. Guess What! Student’s Book 4 (Grade 4), Uzbekistan edition, 2021. Cambridge University Press; Ministry of Public Education of Uzbekistan, USAID
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Buildings: first floor, second floor, elevator, roof, basement, garage …

Textbook: pp. 80–82
GoalName parts of buildings: first floor, second floor, third floor, fourth floor, elevator, roof, basement, garage, stairs, attic.
New words
first floor · birinchi qavatelevator · liftroof · tombasement · yerto‘lagarage · garajattic · cherdak
Explanation

Floors use ordinal numbers: first, second, third, fourth. In American English the “first floor” is the ground-level floor. An “elevator” is a lift (in Britain it is “lift”). “Stairs” is always plural. A “basement” is a floor under the ground, an “attic” is a room under the roof, the “roof” covers the building, and a “garage” is where a car stays. Safety: do not play in an elevator, do not go on a roof without an adult, do not run on stairs, and enter attics and basements with an adult. Sentence: “The garage is next to the house.” “The attic is above the second floor.”

Worked examples
Our flat is on the third floor. We take the elevator or the stairs.
The old boxes are in the attic, and the bike is in the garage.
Class activity

“Floors of a building”: draw a four- or five-floor building on the board. Children put person cards on floors: “The doctor is on the second floor.” Take turns asking “Where is the doctor?”

Practice
1
The floor under the ground:
2
The place for a car:
3
The top outside part of a building:
4
Third floor in English: