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Some additional fabric to Grade x Unit 2 Houses and Homes

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

Vocabulary

1. Add two more words to the list. What type of house do y'all live in?

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

2. Match the opposites. Which adjectives best depict your house?

modern	a expensive
small	b spacious
obviously	c decorated
cheap	d traditional
attractive	e ugly

3. List the words nether the headings. Use them to talk most your house.

Rooms

Features: Indoor/ Outdoor

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 • cupboard• chest of drawers • carpet• wardrobe • mirror • refrigerator • cooker • towels • shower• staircase • garage • chimney

4. Reading

a. Await at the headings and the pictures. What are the texts about? Which state are these houses in?
b. Mind 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 large houses with plenty of ornament. Subsequently in the Victorian period, houses were elementary 0) and obviously. Wealthy people used to live 1) ….. big detached houses with lots of rooms and expensive furniture.

Servants used to alive 2)…. the acme floor of the house or the cranium. The exterior of the house 3) …. a work of fine art with a sleep tiled roof, tall chimney pots and large bay windows iv)…. stained glass. Sometimes they had a forepart porch (портик; крытая галерея, крыльцо) and steps up to the front door. Working people used to live in terraced brick houses with a simple exterior. Those houses were small with two or four rooms. v)……..was no electricity no water and no toilet.

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

Elizabethan houses

Elizabethan manor houses often had an Eastward- shape to evidence respect for half dozen) …. queen. They had brick walls with strong wooden frames. The houses were spacious and comfy with a big hall, a dining room and vii) ….. 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 attic.

half dozen. Preparing to speak: underline the words that describe interior and exterior and special features of the houses so that to use them in your time to come description.

Answer Primal:
exterior: steep tiled roof/tall chimney pots/bаy windows/front porch / steps to the front door/brick walls/wooden
frames/E-shape
interior: lots of rooms / expensive furniture / large hall / dining room / bedrooms / four-poster beds/attic
special features: uncomplicated /plain / large detached houses /stained glass / terraced brick houses/small/toilet/estate
houses / spacious / comfy

vii. Speaking
Suggested Reply Cardinal
Victorians had large, detached houses with many rooms and expensive article of furniture. On the outside, they had steep tiled roofs, alpine chimney pots and large bay windows. Sometimes, they had forepart 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 article of furniture, and bedrooms sometimes had four-poster beds.

viii*. Listening
There'due south a very interesting idiom in connectedness with Elizabethan manner in compages. It's about cats and dogs. Can you estimate which i?

«It's raining cat's 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 like cat and dog'. Nor is the phrase in any sense literal, i.e. it doesn't tape an incident where cats and dogs fell from the heaven. Small creatures, of the size of frogs or fish, do occasionally get carried skywards in freak weather condition. Such involuntary flight must too happen to dogs or cats from time to time, only there's no record of the events causing this phrase to exist coined. No English meteorological records inform about this.

Information technology has been suggested that cats and dogs were done from roofs during heavy weather. This is a widely repeated tale which became very popular with the electronic mail message «Life in the 1500s», which began circulating on the Net in 1999. Here's the relevant part 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 wood underneath. They were the only place for the little animals to get warm. So all the pets; dogs, cats and other small-scale animals, mice, rats, bugs, all lived in the roof. When it rained it became slippery then sometimes the animals would slip and fall off the roof. Thus the saying, «it'due south raining cats and dogs.»

Exercise you believe information technology?

This is nonsense of course. In order to believe this tale we would have to have that dogs lived in thatched roofs, which, of course, they didn't. Fifty-fifty accepting that bizarre idea, for dogs to accept slipped off when it rained they would accept needed to be sitting on the outside of the thatch — inappreciably the identify an animate being would head for equally shelter in bad weather.

(Adjusted from: http://www.phrases.org.united kingdom/meanings/raining%20cats%20and%20dogs.html)

PS: 1 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 bear witness would be nice. There doesn't appear to be any to back up this notion.

8. Test (reflection). Which houses represent Victorian and which Elizabethan architectural styles?

(pictures)

Использованные источники:

1) Upstream Elementary SB
2) http://world wide web.phrases.org.uk
3) Pictures from the Internet