Speak about different colors. Say how each of them influences us and our mood.

Example:I find red an exciting color. I’m excited by red.

5. Match the color and the effect it has on people:

6. Make up your own sentences, using the following phrases:

… makes us …

… helps us …

Thanks to … we are …

Due to … we can be …

Example:Red color makes us active and excited.

7. What color would you paint these rooms? Why?

1) a dining room

2) a child’s room

3) a play area

4) a living room

5) a bedroom

6) a study

Example: I would paint a dining room orange because it stimulates the appetite.

8. Study the following idioms with different colors:

a red-letter day – a holiday

to do smth. in a blue moon – to do smth. very seldom

black and white – clear and simple

to be green – to be inexperienced

to tell a white lie – to deceive smb. In order not to hurt

to have green fingers – to be good at gardening

9. Fill in the correct idiom:

1. Sophia goes to the cinema once ……… . She doesn’t like it very much.

2. Angela definitely ……… – everything in her garden grows really well.

3. He is a bit ……… - he hasn’t done much of that job before.

4. They knew that if she found out the truth it would hurt her feelings so they told her a little ……… .

5. She doesn’t want to say anything until she has seen the facts in ……… and ……….

6. I’m always looking forward to ……… day.

10. Speak about the color schemes you would like to have in you room and explain why.

PART 2

TEXT 1

Read the text.

Architect Yury Andreev says he likes simple things and sim­ple, ordinary food; but VILLA, the restaurant he has designed on Moscow's Myasnitskaya street, offers only refined European cuisine. He also says he does not like to travel doing so only when absolutely necessary and preferring a little evening reading, especially of architectural albums, to a change of scenery. But since the disappearance of the Soviet Union, he has spent his life travelling between two countries: Russia and Latvia. Yury is convinced that an interior decorator is simply an architect in truncated form, and for this reason never engages decorators to take part in his projects. He designed and decorated VILLA, his latest creation, from start to finish entirely on his own in the best traditions of Art Deco. The simple, but elegant furniture combined with the exotic decor; the abundance of sculpture in the interior; the beauty of line; the expressiveness of the materials; the blue, red, brown, and gold: all this is evidence of style. Add the genuine smell of money in the air and what you get is Art Deco, a style "whose main goal was the creation of prosperity and luxury in the years of the lost generation," as Soviet art critics used to write. They, of course, hated Art Deco as a class enemy — but we love it.

art deco – арт деко (декоративный стиль, популярный в 1930-е годы; отличается яркими красками и геометрическими формами)

refined European cuisine –изысканная европейская кухня

to a change of scenery –зд. для смены обстановки (scenery – 1) декорации сцены; 2) вид, пейзаж; ландшафт)

in truncated form –в усеченной форме

to engage –зд. нанимать (Syn. to hire)

abundance –изобилие, богатство

genuine –истинный, подлинный

2. Choose the most suitable title to the text:

1) The life of the architect Yury Andreev.

2) The style of architecture in Moscow.

3) The best traditions of Art Deco in modern architecture.

4) The style of restaurants in Moscow.

3. True or false?

1) Yury Andreev thinks that an interior decorator and an architect are the same.

2) He designed and decorated the restaurant “Villa” without assistance.

3) The restaurant he has designed is famous for its simple, ordinary food.

4) Art Deco is remarkable for its rich decoration.

5) Yury Andreev is fond of traveling very much.

6) He used the ideas of Art Deco in that project.

4. Find the English equivalents in the text:

Предлагает, особенно, архитектурный, дизайнер интерьера, архитектор, принимать участие, последнее творение, самостоятельно, изысканная мебель, изобилие скульптуры, выразительность, признак стиля, процветание и богатство.

5. Find the synonyms in the text:

Elementary, to originate, landscape, to be confirmed (to be sure, to be persuaded), a designer, to participate (to collaborate), indication of style, an aim, real (true, authentic).