Housing

Číslo projektu
CZ.1.07/1.5.00/34.0852
Název školy
Střední škola cestovního ruchu, s. r. o., Benešov
Předmět
Anglický jazyk
Tematický okruh
Konverzační téma
Téma
Housing
Ročník
1.A
Autor
Mgr. Nela Vlachová
Datum výroby
5.3.2013
Anotace
DUM slouží k výuce žáků 1. ročníku v oblasti „Anglický
Autorem materiálu a všech jeho částí, není-li uvedeno jinak, je
www.soes.cz.
jazyk“.
Mgr. Nela Vlachová. Dostupné z u
Pracovní list – Housing
Differences between the Czech Republic and Great Britain:
in the Czech Republic people often build the house themselves, which is not so
common in Great Britain
in Great Britain people buy their houses from commercial builders or from the former
owners
70% of English people have their own house – most people do not have enough
money to buy a house for cash so they take out a mortgage
Traditional housing in Great Britain:
Terraced houses
Semi-detached houses
Detached houses
Villages: cottages
bungalows
Cities: flats (usually in block of flats, prefabs)
houses
Materials: stone, bricks, wood
Useful vocabulary: redbrick house, skyscraper, castle, chateau, palace, half-timbered
house/Tudor-style house, caravan, igloo, teepee, prefab
Positive qualities: comfortable, cosy, luxurious, roomy, large, tidy, well-kept, attractive,
elegant, magnificent, newly built
Negative qualities: haunted, shabby, hideous
Activities: to move into, to move out of, to rent, to decorate, to furnish, to pull
down/demolish
Questions:
Where do you live? Describe your place of living.
Tell us about your room (furniture, colours, decorations, pictures, special equipment, thing
you consider the best one – why?)
Describe the house where you would like to live.
Why do Englishmen say “My house my castle?”