How Much Does It Cost to Gut a Two Family House and Rebuild
Some additional material to Form 10 Unit 2 Houses and Homes
Grammar: revision of used to
Speaking: interior and outside of homes of the past
Vocabulary
1. Add 2 more words to the list. What type of house do you lot alive in?
terraced mansion semi-discrete studio discrete cottage castle bungalow … …
(suggested answer: apartment, villa, etc)
two. Match the opposites. Which adjectives best describe your firm?
| modern | a expensive |
| minor | b spacious |
| plain | c decorated |
| cheap | d traditional |
| attractive | e ugly |
3. Listing the words under the headings. Utilize them to talk about your house.
| Rooms | Features: Indoor/ Outdoor | Article of furniture/ Appliances/Others |
• attic • living room • kitchen • garden • rug • floor • fence • pillows • windows • porch • balcony • cushions • hall • fireplace • brick walls • lamp • bedroom • dining room • four-poster beds • closet• chest of drawers • rug• wardrobe • mirror • refrigerator • cooker • towels • shower• staircase • garage • chimney
4. Reading
a. Look at the headings and the pictures. What are the texts about? Which state are these houses in?
b. Listen to the recording.
c. Read the texts. Fill in the missing words to make the sentences complete.
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Victorian houses
The early Victorians liked big houses with plenty of decoration. Later on in the Victorian period, houses were elementary 0) and plain. Wealthy people used to live 1) ….. large detached houses with lots of rooms and expensive furniture.
Servants used to alive 2)…. the acme floor of the house or the attic. The exterior of the house 3) …. a work of fine art with a sleep tiled roof, tall chimney pots and large bay windows 4)…. stained glass. Sometimes they had a forepart porch (портик; крытая галерея, крыльцо) and steps upwardly to the forepart door. Working people used to live in terraced brick houses with a unproblematic exterior. Those houses were small with two or four rooms. 5)……..was no electricity no water and no toilet.
*bay window — a curved expanse of a room or building that sticks out (выделяется) from the rest of the building
Elizabethan houses
Elizabethan manor houses oftentimes had an E- shape to show respect for 6) …. queen. They had brick walls with stiff wooden frames. The houses were spacious and comfy with a large hall, a dining room and 7) ….. bedrooms.
The furniture was large and elaborate and iv-poster beds were very pop.
Many people used to have servants. 8)…. used to live in rooms in the cranium.
6. Preparing to speak: underline the words that describe interior and exterior and special features of the houses so that to use them in your future clarification.
Answer Key:
exterior: steep tiled roof/alpine chimney pots/bаy windows/front end porch / steps to the front door/brick walls/wooden
frames/E-shape
interior: lots of rooms / expensive furniture / big hall / dining room / bedrooms / iv-poster beds/attic
special features: simple /apparently / large detached houses /stained glass / terraced brick houses/small/toilet/manor
houses / spacious / comfortable
seven. Speaking
Suggested Answer Cardinal
Victorians had large, discrete houses with many rooms and expensive furniture. On the outside, they had steep tiled roofs, tall chimney pots and large 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 comfy rooms. The rooms had big piece of furniture, and bedrooms sometimes had four-affiche beds.
8*. Listening
In that location'due south a very interesting idiom in connectedness with Elizabethan style in architecture. It'south nearly cats and dogs. Can you judge which one?
«It's raining cat'southward and dogs» An interesting phrase, isn't it?
The phrase isn't related to the well-known contempt between dogs and cats, which is exemplified in the phrase 'fight like cat and dog'. Nor is the phrase in any sense literal, i.e. it doesn't record an incident where cats and dogs fell from the sky. Small creatures, of the size of frogs or fish, exercise occasionally get carried skywards in freak weather. Such involuntary flight must also happen to dogs or cats from time to time, but there'southward no tape of the events causing this phrase to be coined. No English meteorological records inform about this.
It has been suggested that cats and dogs were washed from roofs during heavy weather. This is a widely repeated tale which became very pop with the e-mail message «Life in the 1500s», which began circulating on the Internet in 1999. Hither's the relevant role of that:
I'll describe their houses a little. You've heard of thatch roofs (соломенная крыша), well that's all they were. Thick straw, piled high, with no forest underneath. They were the but place for the lilliputian animals to get warm. So all the pets; dogs, cats and other minor animals, mice, rats, bugs, all lived in the roof. When information technology rained information technology became slippery so sometimes the animals would sideslip and autumn off the roof. Thus the saying, «it's raining cats and dogs.»
Exercise you believe it?
This is nonsense of grade. In order to believe this tale we would have to take that dogs lived in thatched roofs, which, of course, they didn't. Even accepting that bizarre idea, for dogs to have slipped off when it rained they would have needed to be sitting on the outside of the thatch — hardly the place an creature would head for as shelter in bad weather.
(Adapted from: http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/raining%20cats%20and%20dogs.html)
PS: I 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 rain. Witches, who often took the course of their familiars — cats, are supposed to have ridden the air current. Well, some evidence would be overnice. There doesn't announced to exist whatsoever to back up this notion.
8. Exam (reflection). Which houses represent Victorian and which Elizabethan architectural styles?
(pictures)
Использованные источники:
1) Upstream Uncomplicated SB
2) http://world wide web.phrases.org.uk
three) Pictures from the Internet
Source: https://fortee.ru/2012/09/26/form-10-unit-2-houses-and-homes-additional/
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