## Step 1 - Reading

Children’s bedrooms
You are going to read a text about children's bedrooms.

While reading, think about the following questions:

- What does your bedroom look like? In what ways is it the same as the rooms described in the text, and in what ways is it different?
- Do you spend a lot of time in your bedroom? What do you do there?

Children's bedrooms In the past a child's bedroom had a bed, a book shelf and a few posters - nothing more. Today it looks more like an electronics store. Computers, mobile phones, televisions, DVD players, game machines, and other tech toys fill the room. They often make the child's bedroom the most expensive one in the house. In Britain, all the stuff in the bedroom of a 8- to 16-year-old is worth £3.300 on average. But children don't just have hi-tech things. The average child also has designer clothes, sunglasses, watches, jewellery, and sports equipment. More than four in ten children have rooms that are a home office, mini cinema, and gym, all in one. Nine in ten children have got a TV, and seven in ten have got a DVD player. Almost all of them have got a phone, and six in ten have got their own CD player, iPod, or MP3 player. One in four has got their own computer. Children have so much to do in their bedrooms, it is no surprise that they spend most of their time there. They are seldom anywhere else in the house. One girl spends so long on her mobile phone in her room that her parents have to text her to speak to her. Another child disappears into his room as soon as he gets home from school and plays on his PlayStation until bedtime. Children's bedrooms are their kingdoms. Some families almost never do anything together. People eat different meals at different times, and watch different TV programmes in different rooms.

Finished? Do the assignment.