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Some additional material to Form 10 Unit 2 Houses and Homes

Grammer: revision of used to
Speaking: interior and exterior of homes of the past

Vocabulary

1. Add together ii more words to the listing. What blazon of house do you alive in?

terraced mansion semi-detached studio discrete cottage castle bungalow … …
(suggested answer: flat, villa, etc)

ii. Friction friction match the opposites. Which adjectives best describe your house?

modernistic	a expensive
small	b spacious
plainly	c decorated
cheap	d traditional
bonny	e ugly

iii. List the words under the headings. Use them to talk virtually your business firm.

Rooms

Features: Indoor/ Outdoor

Furniture/ Appliances/Others

• attic • living room • kitchen • garden • carpeting • floor • fence • pillows • windows • porch • balcony • cushions • hall • fireplace • brick walls • lamp • chamber • dining room • four-poster beds • cupboard• breast of drawers • carpet• wardrobe • mirror • fridge • cooker • towels • shower• staircase • garage • chimney

4. Reading

a. Expect at the headings and the pictures. What are the texts about? Which country are these houses in?
b. Mind to the recording.
c. Read the texts. Fill in the missing words to brand the sentences complete.

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Victorian houses

The early Victorians liked big houses with plenty of ornament. Later on in the Victorian period, houses were uncomplicated 0) and manifestly. Wealthy people used to live 1) ….. large discrete houses with lots of rooms and expensive article of furniture.

Servants used to live 2)…. the peak floor of the house or the cranium. The exterior of the house 3) …. a slice of piece of work of fine fine art with a sleep tiled roof, tall chimney pots and big bay windows 4)…. stained glass. Sometimes they had a front end porch (портик; крытая галерея, крыльцо) and steps upward to the forepart door. Working people used to live in terraced brick houses with a simple exterior. Those houses were modest with two or four rooms. 5)……..was no electricity no h2o and no toilet.

*bay window — a curved area of a room or building that sticks out (выделяется) from the residue of the building

Elizabethan houses

Elizabethan manor houses oftentimes had an E- shape to testify respect for six) …. queen. They had brick walls with potent wooden frames. The houses were spacious and comfortable with a large hall, a dining room and seven) ….. bedrooms.

The furniture was large and elaborate and four-affiche beds were very pop.

Many people used to have servants. eight)…. used to live in rooms in the attic.

vi. Preparing to speak: underline the words that describe interior and outside and special features of the houses then that to employ them in your hereafter clarification.

Answer Key:
exterior: steep tiled roof/alpine chimney pots/bаy windows/forepart end porch / steps to the forepart door/brick walls/wooden
frames/E-shape
interior: lots of rooms / expensive piece of furniture / large hall / dining room / bedrooms / iv-affiche beds/cranium
special features: elementary /evidently / big detached houses /stained glass / terraced brick houses/minor/toilet/manor
houses / spacious / comfy

7. Speaking
Suggested Answer Central
Victorians had big, discrete houses with many rooms and expensive piece of furniture. On the outside, they had steep tiled roofs, tall chimney pots and big bay windows. Sometimes, they had front porches and steps up to the front end door.
Elizabethan houses had brick walls with wooden frames. They had many comfortable rooms. The rooms had big furniture, and bedrooms sometimes had 4-affiche beds.

8*. Listening
There's a very interesting idiom in connection with Elizabethan fashion in architecture. Information technology'south about cats and dogs. Tin can you guess which one?

Raining Cats and Dogs — Mary Evans Motion picture Library

«It'south raining true cat'due south and dogs» An interesting phrase, isn't it?

The phrase isn't related to the well-known antipathy between dogs and cats, which is exemplified in the phrase 'fight similar cat and dog'. Nor is the phrase in whatever sense literal, i.eastward. it doesn't tape an incident where cats and dogs fell from the sky. Minor creatures, of the size of frogs or fish, practice occasionally become carried skywards in freak weather. Such involuntary flight must also happen to dogs or cats from fourth dimension to time, simply at that place'due south no record of the events causing this phrase to exist coined. No English meteorological records inform almost this.

It has been suggested that cats and dogs were done from roofs during heavy conditions. This is a widely repeated tale which became very popular with the east-mail message «Life in the 1500s», which began circulating on the Cyberspace in 1999. Here'southward the relevant function of that:

I'll depict their houses a petty. You've heard of thatch roofs (соломенная крыша), well that'due southward all they were. Thick straw, piled loftier, with no forest underneath. They were the just place for the piddling animals to get warm. So all the pets; dogs, cats and other modest animals, mice, rats, bugs, all lived in the roof. When it rained information technology became glace so sometimes the animals would slip and autumn off the roof. Thus the saying, «information engineering science'south raining cats and dogs.»

Practise yous believe it?

This is nonsense of course. In social lodge to believe this tale we would take to accept that dogs lived in thatched roofs, which, of course, they didn't. Even accepting that baroque idea, for dogs to have slipped off when information technology rained they would have needed to exist sitting on the exterior of the thatch — hardly the place an fauna would caput for as shelter in bad atmospheric condition.

(Adapted from: http://www.phrases.org.u.thousand./meanings/raining%20cats%20and%20dogs.html)

PS: One supposed origin is that the phrase derives from mythology. Dogs and wolves were attendants to Odin, the god of storms, and sailors associated them with pelting. Witches, who oftentimes took the form of their familiars — cats, are supposed to take ridden the wind. Well, some testify would be nice. There doesn't announced to exist any to back up this notion.

viii. Examination (reflection). Which houses represent Victorian and which Elizabethan architectural styles?

(pictures)

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1) Upstream Unproblematic SB
2) http://www.phrases.org.united kingdom
3) Pictures from the Internet

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