Housing and Home téma

Housing and Home téma

Home(place) is more than place with four walls with a roof and where the people feel safe and relaxed. It is cooking, eating, talking, playing, arguing. Some people feel that home is their birthplace and they feel safe and relaxed.

House(building) is a building for people to live, usually with a garden. Houses are different in differend countries:

– in cold countries – they have a fireplace in living room and woodstove in kitchen

– in hot countries – people prefer cool stone floors and carpet. It is a house with no walls. They have blinds to stop rain or sun. In Samoa they have no furniture just rugs.

PROVERBS about house and home:

„Home sweet home“

„East or west, home is best“

„My house – my castle“

Types of houses:

1. a) a detached house – rodinný dom

(building usually with garden, family house)

1. b) a semi-detached house – dvojdom

(2 house together with font and back garden)

1. c) row houses (terraced) – radové domy (several houses together)
2. d) bungallow – only grand floor (with one level floor)

Typical in Australia, New Zealand.

1. e) block of flat – panelák (apartment – AmE)

(large building with a lot of flats), flat is a set of room

Some people who live in cihes have houses in the countryside where they go every weekend – it´s a cottage country cottage.

Cottage in Britain – There are a wooden beams and thatched roof.

You can live :

1.)in the centre of the town or in suburb (on area)

2.)in the country (far away from other people)

3.)in village

4.)housing estate – block of flat

5.)residential area

The people if they don´t have enough money, they take a mortgage).

Homeless people – people, who don´t have a home

– don´t have a home because: example – they haven´t a job and they can´t pay rent

– lost job, no money

– they give all money from alcohol, cigarettes

Typical English house – downstairs – kitchen, living room, bathroom (dining room)

– upstairs – bedrooms, bathrooms

Typical American house – master´s bedroom with a bathroom

bedroom from children

large living room

toilet, lavatory, loo

Advantages / Disadvantages

1.)in the centre of the town or in suburb:

A: shopping facilities, good health care, good schools, work places, good resonable Internet , bars, disco...

D: noise, a lot of car, many people, expensive flats....

2.)in the country:

A: calm, nature, mountains, groves, low cost of living

D: no bars, disco, lesser people, a fore pensioners

3.)in village:

A: around town, low cost of living, houses have a garden, satellite TV, resonable Internet

D: lesser shops, usually small people

4.)housing estate – block of flat

A: park, shops, many people, sportground for children

D: roads, a lot of cars, noise

5.)residential area

A: park, shops, many people, sportground for children

D: roads, a lot of cars, noise

Vocabulary

attitude (noun) – postoj creep in (verb) – vkradnúť sa, vplížiť sa

cut off (verb) – odrezať, izolovať, vylúčiť decline (noun) – pokles

décor (noun) – dekorácia folk (noun) – ľudia

furnishings (noun) – bytové zariadenie, vybavenie geranium (noun) – pelargónia

hide-and-seek (noun) – hra na schovávačku poke (verb) – strkať

refuge (noun) – útočište sacrifice (verb) – obetovať sa

sanctuary (noun) – svätyňa sherpherd (noun) – pastier

shutter (noun) – okenica, roleta sink, sank, sunk (verb) – klesnúť

spread out (noun) – roztiahnuť sa, rozvinúť sa sufficient (adjective) – dostatočný

surround (verb) – obklopiť sa townsfolk (noun) – obyvatelia mesta

ups and downs – dobré i zlé woodstove (noun) – pec na drevo

cellar – pivnica basement – suterén

attic – povala, podkrovie chandelier – luster

coat-hanger – vešiaková stena wooden beams – drevené trámy

tiles – dlaždice thatched woof – slamená strecha

fireplace – kozub mortgage – hypotéka

bedside – koberec pri postely rent – nájomné

sink – drez, linka residential area – obytná štvrť, nepriemyselná

housing estate – sídlisko, obytná štvrť