【英语趣味课堂】新房子-New House

 Todd: Keri, I heard you have a new house.

Keri: Yes, I do.
 
Todd: Oh, so what's your new house like?
 
Keri: It's small, it's old. It's mostly wooden in the inside. It has two bedrooms and a balcony 1 off of those rooms. Downstairs, there's like a living room area and a tatami mat 2 room, kitchen, bathroom.
 
Todd: Wow, so do you live in the tatami mat room?
 
Keri: No, there's two tatami mat rooms. There's one upstairs and there's one downstairs and I don't live in either. One we use as kind of a spare room and the other one is my roommate's bedroom.
 
Todd: Oh, OK. So you have a roommate?
 
Keri: Yes.
 
Todd: What's it like having a roommate?
 
Keri: It's good. I like living alone too but sometimes it's nice to come home and have someone there. My roommate gets home before I do and she likes to cook so often she's cooked dinner for me.
 
Todd: Wow, that's nice.
 
Keri: I know.
 
Todd: Well, you do all the cleaning?
 
Keri: Now that you mention it, I do a lot of the cleaning but not all of it.
 
Todd: Oh, OK. Well, what kind of things does she make you?
 
Keri: Last night she made curry 3. I think it was an Indian curry, tomato-base.
 
Todd: Spicy 4?
 
Keri: Yes.
 
Todd: Cool. Thanks a lot, Keri.
 
Keri: You're welcome.
 
学习内容：

Learn Vocabulary from the lesson
tatami mat room
We have a tatami mat room upstairs.
A 'tatami mat' is a traditional Japanese floor covering that was originally 5 made from rice straw 6. Notice the following:
 
The restaurant has tatami mats 7 in the private rooms.
Do you have tatami mats in your house?
spare room
We use one of the rooms as a spare room.
A 'spare room' is a room that you have available for guests or a room where nobody permanently 8 lives. Notice the following:
 
We have a spare room for you to stay in.
How many spare rooms do you have?
roommate
 
I like living alone, but it's nice to have a roommate, too,
A 'roommate' is someone who shares your house or apartment with you who is not family. Notice the following:
 
My roommate is the cleanest person ever.
Where did you meet your roommate?
what's it like
What's it like to have a roommate?
When you ask 'what's it like' you want the speaker to describe something for you.  Notice the following:
 
What's it like to be married?
What's it like to have a real job?
-based
 
She made tomato-based Indian curry.
If a food is 'tomato-based' it is made up mostly of tomatoes.  We can put the word '-based' after other words to show the composition of something.  Notice the following:
 
Is the soup tomato-based?
Is the class conversation-based?