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There are many different types of housing in Great britain, ranging from the traditional thatched country cottage to flats in the centre of towns. Houses are often described by the period in which they were built (e.g., Georgian, Victorian, 1930s, or post-war) and whether they are terraced, semi-discrete or detached. Equally well as preferring houses to flats, for many people a garden is also an of import consideration. Although Britain is relatively small-scale the areas where people live vary considerably: there are new towns and inner cities, suburbs, commuter belts and the open countryside.
1. Read the descriptions of houses beneath and decide which of them is for the English: a) the about desirable; b) 2d best; c) less desirable; d) the least desirable.
a. Terraced houses are ordinarily found in inner cities. They can be anything upwardly to 150 years quondam and were often congenital by industries to house their workers about the factories. They are built in long rows where each house is attached to the ones on either side. The back of this type of firm faces the back of another identical row of houses, so they are often-known equally 'back to backs'. In recent years many terraced houses have been renovated; central heating has been added and other improvements made to what was originally a simple and sometimes primitive habitation with an outside toilet and no bathroom.

b. Semi-detached houses take been built in large numbers since the 1930s, when Great britain's towns and cities expanded into suburbs. Each house is role of a pair and is joined on i side to its partner. The semi ordinarily has a small dorsum and front end garden, three bedrooms and a small-scale bathroom. It is the near popular type of house in Great britain and could be called the home of 'Mr. and Mrs. Average'. Towns in Britain have areas which incorporate streets and streets of semis, often with well-kept gardens.

c. The detached business firm stands by itself, unremarkably with a garden all around information technology. These houses are much more expensive than semis and are frequently owned past professional people. Most discrete houses are to be found in affluent suburbs or in the 'green belt' – a strip of protected open up countryside around a city, where no industrial development or major building schemes are allowed. Some large cities (particularly London) also take a 'commuter belt' – so-called considering the professionals who live in that location travel (commute) every day to work into the city by train or car. London is surrounded past miles and miles of 'commuter belt'. Some commuters travel upwardly to three or four hours a day to get from their homes to the inner city.

d. Britain is famous for its country cottages which were often built on the country estates of wealthy landowners. The workers on the manor rented the cottages from the landowner and worked on the land. Cottages were also frequently built around a village green. Cottages have low ceilings, wooden beams and sometimes a thatched roof. In recent years some cottages have get 2nd homes, bought by professionals during the economical boom of the 1980s.

eastward. In the 1950s and 1960s local councils cleared a lot of the slums in the inner city areas and knocked down terraced houses in very poor areas. The people were re-housed in tower blocks on the outskirts of the urban center or in the centre of the city. Belfry blocks tin vary from three-5 storeys high up to 10-20 storeys high. Each storey contains 5 or six flats for families. In recent years local councils accept tried to improve the areas around belfry blocks by creating 'green infinite', children's playgrounds and facilities for the customs to use. Some tower blocks in large cities like London tin can exist very dangerous at night and they have been criticised for their long night corridors, which encourage offense and vandalism.

f. A bungalow is a small business firm in which all the rooms are on the footing level. Many onetime people live in bungalows because there are no stairs to climb. In U.k., large groups of bungalows are often built together on the edges of towns, or in places were people go to live when they have retired from work, such as the southward coast. Many people find these groups of bungalows boring to look at.

g. The town firm, which can be constitute in the inner areas of most cities, is an exception to the general pattern. There is great variety regarding both design and use. They oftentimes have iii or more floors, peradventure including a basement or semi-basement. Although they are ordinarily terraced, those that are well-preserved and in a 'good' area may exist idea highly desirable. Many accept been broken up into flats or rooms for rent. Most of the comparatively small number of people who rent from private owners live in flats of this kind.
2 . Using the information yous have read in a higher place try to judge which type of house is meant in the following sentences.
i) A …......… house not only ensures privacy, but is besides a condition symbol.

2) Most people would be happy to live in a …….. , reminiscent of pre-industrial historic period.

iii) The dislike of living in ...…..… is very stiff in Britain.

four) In other countries millions of people live reasonably happily in ........... .

5) .......……. at the end of the row are a bit more desirable – they are the most similar a semi-detached.

6) A .............… house usually has no way through to the dorsum except through the firm itself.

7) Many older people dream of going to live in a ….......... when they retire.
three . Endeavour to explain which of these homes is the best for the following people.
a) an old couple; b) a couple with two young children; c) a family unit of 6; d) ii students; e) a musician who practices at home; f) a writer who finds information technology hard to sleep.
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1. Characterize the following types of houses which have non been mentioned previously. Use a lexicon if necessary.

a. caravan b. castle c. houseboat

d. dwelling e. hut f. mansion

g. palace h. tent i. cabin

2. Study the kinds of flats given below. Speak on their skilful and bad points. Which i is more than to your liking?

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  A basement is a part of a building consisting of rooms that are partly or completely below the level of the basis.
  
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  A bed-sitter, (formal bed-sitting room) is a rented room which has a bed, table, chairs and somewhere to cook in it; a combined bedroom and living room, especially 1 that is rented and serves as somebody'south residence.
  
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  A maisonette is a modest apartment on two levels which is part of a larger building simply has its own entrance.
  
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  A penthouse is a luxurious apartment or set of rooms at the top of a hotel or alpine edifice.
  
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  A cocky-independent apartment has everything that is needed within itself (its ain kitchen, bathroom, and entrance).
  
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  A studio (UK also studio flat, esp. United states studio flat) can also be a pocket-sized flat designed to be lived in by one or two people. It ordinarily has one large room for sleeping and living in, a bathroom and peradventure a separate kitchen.
  

three. Depict a plan of a house and point out where the post-obit parts are situated.
a. attic east. ground flooring i. backyard

b. loft f. basement j. gate

c. balcony g. cellar k. fence

d. start floor h. porch l. forepart door
iv. All of the words below tin be used instead of alive . Using a dictionary if necessary, match them with their definitions.
a. inhabit c. occupy e. settle one thousand. lodge

b. reside d. squat f. stay h. dwell
1) to start to live in a identify (after moving from somewhere else)

b. occupy 2) [of large groups of people or animals] to live in a country or area

c. settle 3) to alive in a identify for a while as a company or guest

d. lodge 4) [formal] to have one'south abode in a place

e. reside 5) to be in (a business firm or room)

f. squat six) [literary or quondam apply] to live in a place

g. stay seven) to stay in someone else'southward dwelling in exchange for paying hire

h. dwell 8) to live in an unused building without permission and without paying rent.
5. Consummate the post-obit sentences with the missing words which reply the question 'Where do they live?'.
1) Most English families live in a h………. house

2) A king lives in a p………….…..…....……….

3) A monk lives in a yard………….....…...……….

4) A nun lives in a c……………..…...………….

5) Soldiers lives in a b…………...…….………..

6) A prisoner lives in a c………..…….…………

7) A gipsy lives in a c...........................................

8) An Eskimo lives in an i………….…..……….

9) A bee lives in a h………….….…....…………

10) A bird lives in a north………….…...…..……….

eleven) A dog lives in a k…………..…..…..……….

12) A equus caballus lives in a s…………....…….………

13) A pig lives in a south…………….…..……………

14) A spider lives in a w…………....…….………
half-dozen. Fill up in the blanks with the words of the same root. The first is given as an example.

	Verb	Noun	Adjective	Adverb
1.	house	house	–––––––	–––––
two.	dwell
3.			resident
4.			inhabitable
5.		lodger
half dozen.	conform
7.				comfortably
8.			urban
9.	rent
10.		decorator
11.				homeward

vii. A. Make two lists of words, give-and-take combinations and set expressions with the words 'home' and 'house'. Use a dictionary if needed.
eastward.g. dwelling business firm

homework housework

home town/country/land household

homecoming housing

home-fabricated housewife

Continue these lists as long as you can.
B. Write downwardly half dozen sentences of your own using any items from the lists higher up.
8. Read the text below and do the tasks that follow.
The well-known saying, 'An Englishman's home is his castle', illustrates the want for privacy and the importance fastened to ownership which seem to be at the centre of the British attitude to housing.

Flats are not popular only because they practice not give enough privacy. As of import every bit privacy is the opportunity of private self-expression. People like to choose the colour of their own forepart door and window frames, and likewise to cull what they are going to do with a little bit of outside territory, still small that may be.

The possibilities of displaying individuality, offered by the front garden, are almost endless. In any one street, some are paved, some are full of flowerbeds with paths in between, others are just patches of grass, others are a mixture of these.

Just equally the British idea of home is a mental concept as much every bit a physical reality, so is the thought of domestic comfort. The of import thing is to feel cosy – that is, to create an temper which seems warm fifty-fifty if information technology isn't really warm.

Despite the reverence they tend to feel for 'home', British people have little deep-rooted attachment to their business firm as an object, or to the land on which it stands. It is the abstract idea of 'home' which is important, non the building. This will exist sold when the time and price is correct and its occupiers will motion into some other business firm which they will then plow into 'home' – a dwelling house which they will love just as much as they did the previous ane.

Most British people do not 'belong' to a particular place, nor are they usually brought upwardly in a long-established family business firm to which they can always render. Perhaps this is why they are non usually content to rent their accommodation. Wherever they are, they like to put down roots. So, the want to own the place where you live is almost universal in United kingdom.
^ Give discussion-combinations, using the adjectives in the box and any nouns that match them:
ain private individual mental domestic cosy

item abstruse content physical universal
eastward.g. own (house; family unit; feel; duty; fate)
C. Discuss with your partners what 'privacy' and 'self-expression' mean.

D. Speak on the mental and physical components of the British concept of 'domicile'.
9. Comment on the post-obit English proverbs. Requite their Russian or Belarusian equivalents.

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  Men make houses and women make homes.
  
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  An Englishman's domicile is his castle.
  
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  Those who live in glass houses should not throw stones.
  
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  Charity begins at domicile.
  

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