Tham khảo tài liệu 'intermediate course book - part 4', ngoại ngữ, ngữ pháp tiếng anh phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | 8 House and home Ĩ Dave and Steve Briggs share a bedroom in their parents house. You might think that s quite normal for brothers but Dave and Steve aren t re both in their mid-thirties and .their parents are now retired. are part of a growing number of children who are being forced to live with their parents well into adulthood simply because they can t afford to rent Or buy a place of their own. Steve has lived in the two-bedroom terraced house in the London suburb of . Walthamstow nearly all his life apart from two years when he was studying nursing in Derby. While he was there he suffered a nervous breakdown and came home before completing his course. It. was a difficult time he said. It was the first time I d really been away from my family and I was finding the course quite stressful. In the end I just couldn t cope and my life just went to pieces. I ve suffered from depression ever since which has meant I ve been in and out of work a lot but I ve always been able to come home and know I ll be looked after that I won t end up on the streets because I couldn t afford to pay the rent. And until two years ago I had the bedroom to myself so that was all right. I had the TV and PlayStation in there so I had my privacy All that changed when Dave got divorced and had to leave his large four-bedroom house to his wife and two Real English a rough part of town M We often talk about somewhere being rough rather than dangerous. Rough areas are usually poor areas where there is some crime and sometimes violence. It s quite a rough area. Aly house has been burgled three times since I ve been here. I went to quite a rough school. I often got into fights. It s quite a rough bar. I wouldn t go in there if I were you. kids-. He had originally left home at seventeen when he joined the army and now works as a mechanical engineer for Ford Motors. When Lisa and I divorced I thought I would just rent somewhere close by so I could just drop in and see the kids
