A Very Special Family: the House of Joseph Thomas Raad, Georgetown, S.c

Some additional material to Form 10 Unit two Houses and Homes

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

Vocabulary

1. Add together two more words to the list. What blazon of business firm practise yous alive in?

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

ii. Friction match the opposites. Which adjectives best describe your house?

modern	a expensive
pocket-sized	b spacious
plain	c decorated
cheap	d traditional
attractive	east ugly

3. List the words under the headings. Employ them to talk virtually your house.

Rooms

Features: Indoor/ Outdoor

Piece of furniture/ Appliances/Others

• cranium • living room • kitchen • garden • rug • flooring • fence • pillows • windows • porch • balustrade • cushions • hall • fireplace • brick walls • lamp • bedroom • dining room • 4-poster beds • cupboard• breast of drawers • carpeting• wardrobe • mirror • fridge • cooker • towels • shower• staircase • garage • chimney

4. Reading

a. Look at the headings and the pictures. What are the texts nearly? Which country 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 on Victorians liked large houses with plenty of ornamentation. Later in the Victorian period, houses were uncomplicated 0) and obviously. Wealthy people used to live 1) ….. large detached houses with lots of rooms and expensive furniture.

Servants used to alive 2)…. the top floor of the house or the cranium. The exterior of the house three) …. a work of fine art with a sleep tiled roof, tall chimney pots and large bay windows 4)…. stained glass. Sometimes they had a front porch (портик; крытая галерея, крыльцо) and steps upwardly to the front end door. Working people used to live in terraced brick houses with a simple exterior. Those houses were pocket-size with ii 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 rest of the building

Elizabethan houses

Elizabethan estate houses frequently had an E- shape to show respect for half-dozen) …. queen. They had brick walls with strong wooden frames. The houses were spacious and comfortable with a big hall, a dining room and 7) ….. bedrooms.

The article of furniture was big and elaborate and four-poster beds were very popular.

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 future description.

Answer Key:
exterior: steep tiled roof/tall chimney pots/bаy windows/forepart porch / steps to the front door/brick walls/wooden
frames/Due east-shape
interior: lots of rooms / expensive article of furniture / large hall / dining room / bedrooms / four-affiche beds/attic
special features: unproblematic /plain / big detached houses /stained drinking glass / terraced brick houses/small/toilet/estate
houses / spacious / comfortable

7. Speaking
Suggested Answer Key
Victorians had large, detached houses with many rooms and expensive furniture. On the outside, they had steep tiled roofs, tall chimney pots and big bay windows. Sometimes, they had forepart porches and steps up to the front 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.

8*. Listening
There'south a very interesting idiom in connection with Elizabethan manner in architecture.  It'south virtually cats and dogs. Can you gauge which 1?

Mary Evans Picture Library

«It's raining true cat's and dogs» An interesting phrase, isn't information technology?

The phrase isn't related to the well-known contempt betwixt dogs and cats, which is exemplified in the phrase 'fight similar true 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 sky. Pocket-sized creatures, of the size of frogs or fish, practice occasionally get carried skywards in freak weather. Such involuntary flight must also happen to dogs or cats from time to time, merely at that place'due south no record of the events causing this phrase to be coined. No English language meteorological records inform well-nigh this.

It has been suggested that cats and dogs were washed from roofs during heavy conditions. This is a widely repeated tale which became very popular with the e-mail bulletin «Life in the 1500s», which began circulating on the Internet in 1999. Here's the relevant office of that:

I'll describe their houses a footling. You've heard of thatch roofs (соломенная крыша), well that's all they were. Thick straw, piled loftier, with no forest underneath. They were the only identify for the little animals to get warm. And then all the pets; dogs, cats and other small animals, mice, rats, bugs, all lived in the roof. When it rained it became slippery so sometimes the animals would sideslip and fall off the roof. Thus the saying, «it'south raining cats and dogs.»

Do you lot believe it?

This is nonsense of course.  In order to believe this tale we would have to accept 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 accept needed to be sitting on the outside of the thatch — inappreciably the place an fauna would head for as shelter in bad weather.

(Adjusted from: http://www.phrases.org.u.k./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 show would be nice. At that place doesn't appear to be any to support this notion.

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

(pictures)

Использованные источники:

1) Upstream Simple SB
2) http://www.phrases.org.uk
iii) Pictures from the Internet

silversteinonch1942.blogspot.com

Source: https://fortee.ru/2012/09/26/form-10-unit-2-houses-and-homes-additional/