Housing

Housing

1. a) môj domov (opis prostredia, v ktorom bývam, vybavenie miestností)

   b) bývanie v meste a na vidieku (výhody a nevýhody)

   c) ideálne bývanie (vlastné predstavy o bývaní)

House is a place where we live. Where we come after our school or work. It´s a place where we sleep. It´s a building. But home is a place where we feel the best. Home is symbol of family. It´s a place where we always find a love, peace and understanding.

I live in a block of flats in small village. Our flat is quite large. It is on the third floor. It is a three-bedroom flat. In our flat we have: a hall – chodba, a kitchen where we have also table so it´s kitchen and dining room in one, a living room, two bedrooms, a toilet, a bathroom and we have a pantry (komora) too.

In the hall we have: a front door (vchodové dvere), hall mirror, a coat hanger (vešiak na kabáty) and a shoe cabinet (botník). In the kitchen we have:a cupboard – kuchynská linka, kredenc, a table with chairs, a sink, a fridge, a freezer and home appliances such as a kettle or a mixer, then we have there cups (poháre), plates (taniere), dishes (riady), cutlery (príbory).

Our kitchen has yellow walls and there is many flawers because my mum love flowers. In the living room we have: a sofa – pohovka, small table, television with dvd player, on the wall we have big picture of my mum and dad wadding day and everywhere are photos of me and my siblings and my little nieces and nephew. In my parent´sbedroom we have:  big bed, a wardrobe and a television.

The walls are green which is optimistic colour. Mum has a reading lamp too. My bedroom is not very large but sunny. In my bedroom I have a bed, big wardrobe, big table, where i write my homework and there is also my computer, i have a bedside table too and everywhere in my room i have dried roses which I recieved from my boyfriend and also photos. My walls has a collour what i don´t know name, but it´s warm colour and nice and I feel great there. And in the bathroom we have: a bath – vaňa, a tap, a rug, small mirror and washing machine.

There is difference between living in the town and living in the village.

Living in towns and cities has some advantages and disadvantages. On one side there are many possibilities for jobs, education, sports, social and cultural life (you can enjoy the cultural life – you can go the the cinema, to the theatre, to the fitness centre or a swimming pool). You can go out and have a dinner in a restaurant. People can visit cafes, pubs and night clubs. There are many shops and hospitals, too.

City is more dangerous than village and there is a lot of mess and dirt in the streets (city is usually dirty), city is noisy (hlučné). Living in a village has some advantages and disadvantages too. Advantages are for example that in a village there is quite. In summer you can go out for a walk to the forest or you can just sit in the garden, read a book or relax.

Disadvantages are for example that sometimes you have to travel to the town if you work or go to school there, because in a village there is no high school or univesities and many possibilities for jobs. Someone think that live in a village can be boring because there are no cultural life (no cinemas, theatres, swimming pools)

Living in a flat / living in a house:
Living in a house has these advantages and disadvantagesA: there is more privacy (súkromie) and more space (priestor), houses usually have a garden and a garage, you can listen to loud music, you can keep bigger pets- dogs, cats..
D: it is more expensive, you have towork in the garden – you must cut the grass, look after the trees /starať sa o stromy/, you have to tidy up more rooms and clean more windows

Living in a flat has these advantages and disadvantages
A: it is cheaper(lacnejšie) and comfortable, you don’t have to clean a lot because you don’t have many rooms and Windows,
D: there is less privacy /menej súkromia/ and less space, flat usually doesn´t have a garden and you can´t keep pets or you can keep just a little pets there, you can´t listen to loud music

Living in Slovakia, Great Britain and the USA is quite different. In Slovakia people usually live in a house or in a block of flats. Houses are usually big and they have a garden. Most of the young people in Slovakia live with their parents because it is too expensive for them to buy their own house or flat. They usually leave home and buy a house/flat when they get married. But sometimes more generations live in the same house – parents, children and grandchildren. 

In Great Britain people usually live in terraced houses /radovka, radová výstavba/ – they are joined together with other houses or detached houses– they are not joined with another house. Houses in Britain usually have a small garden or a paved yard /vydláždený dvor, nádvorie/. Block of flats are not very common /bežný/ in Great Britain. Young people in Britain leave home much sooner than young people in Slovakia.

In the USA: Rich people in the USA have big houses with many rooms, tennis courts and swimming pools but many poor people are homeless. The standard of living is generally very high in the USA. In cities people live in a flat in large apartment buildings. Some people live in houses which have a big garden. Most of American people don’t stay in one house or flat for their whole life but very often they move to the different city or different state because of many reason for example because of work or they want to be in warmer place..