Daily Life - Heating (C0176)

A:	It's freezing in here! Can I turn up the heat?

B:	Don't touch that thermostat! You don't paythe bills around here!

A:	Dad! Are you serious? What's the point of having central heating if we can't use it! Look, I can see my breath!

B:	Put on a sweater! I'm not gonna let you run up my heating bill just because it's a bit chilly.

A:	Dad! I'm gonna catch a cold!

B:	When I was your age, my parents didn't have central heating like you do! We had a furnace inthe center ofthe living room and that was it. We used it to cook, heat the house and even dry our clothes! We never caught a cold. You should be grateful!

Key Vocabulary

run up		acquire bills or debts
turn up		increase the intensity of a device
chilly		very cold
catch a cold		become infected with a cold
grateful		thankful

wood stove		a metal closed fire chamber that burns wood fuel for heating and cooking
thermos		container lined with insulating material that keeps liquids hot or cold
fireplace		a structure, made of stone or brick, for holding a fire at the base of a chimney
frost		a deposit of tiny ice crystals formed when water vapor condenses at a temperature below freezing
sub-zero temperatures		cold temperatures, below 0°C (zero degrees celsius)