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I grew up in
a red-brick terraced house in
Manchester; a classic two-up, two-down,
Types of house with a lounge and dining room on the ground
floor and two bedrooms on the first floor. At times,
Is your home a castle? ANNA HOCHSIEDER presents there were six people in our household: my parents, my
language to talk about different types of house. grandparents, my sister and I. Later, I moved to a tiny
bedsit (now you’d say a studio) — a single room
with a separate bathroom. e four-bedroom
1. detached house semi where I live now seems like a
2. pitched roof Well, I don’t mansion by comparison.
3. bay window live in a castle. I live in a
4. terraced house (UK), row house (US) condo. I bought my beautiful small
5. semi-detached/semi (UK), apartment five years ago when I moved to
duplex (US) San Francisco. ere are six apartments alto- My home
6. chimney gether in the condominium, a fairly modern
7. porch building in a quiet side street, and all of us is my castle
8. block of flats, tower block (UK), owners get along really well. It’s a
apartment building (US) shame you can’t say the same
9. flat roof
about our cats. I’m an architect, and I specialize
in planning low-energy houses. My current
10. cottage
project is a modern three-storey family home in a
11. thatched roof
residential neighbourhood. It’s made entirely of wood
Illustrationen: Bernhard Förth
12. shutters and glass. ere are solar panels on the roof, and the win-
13. town house (UK) dows face south and have triple glazing. People already
14. dormer window built well-insulated houses hundreds of years ago. My
15. bungalow (UK), ranch house (US) own home is a 200-year-old cottage with a straw-
16. stately home (UK), mansion thatched roof, so it’s cool in summer and
warm in winter.
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1. Complete the sentences with words from the opposite page.
a) A ____________________ is an area covered by a roof at the entrance to a house.
b) Your home and all the people who live in it are your ____________________.
c) In the US, a condo or ____________________ is an apartment or a building containing apartments owned
by the people who live in it. d–4; e–3
a–5; b–1; c–2;
d) Some windows have ____________________ that you can close to keep the light out. 4.
e) A house that is protected against heat and cold is ____________________.
c) triple glazing
b) two-man
f) Windows that have ____________________ have three layers of glass. a) terraced
3.
g) A ____________________ is a vertical window that projects from a pitched roof. row house
h) In a ____________________ area, there are lots of houses and not many offices or shops.
[(terEst )haUs],
d) terraced house
duplex
[)semi di(tÄtSt],
detached
2. The floor of a building at ground level is called the “ground c) semi/semi-
floor” in the UK and the “first floor” in the US. Complete the ranch house
b) bungalow,
table with some more British- and American-English terms. a) flat, apartment
2.
British English American English [)rezI(denS&l]
h) residential
flat
dow)
a) A set of rooms for living in: g) dormer (win-
[)trIp&l (gleIzIN]
b) A house with only one level: f) triple glazing
e) insulated
c) A house joined to another house by a d) shutters
[)kAndE(mIniEm]
shared wall on one side: (US)
c) condominium
d) A house in a row of houses that are b) household
a) porch
all joined together: 1.
Answers
3. In each line below, one of the four terms in colour is not Look up the word house in a
used with the noun on the right. Which term is it? learner’s dictionary and find
out...
a) a pitched / flat / terraced / thatched roof
• the pronunciation of the
b) a two-bedroom / two-man / two-storey / 200-year-old house verb to house;
c) a red-brick / wood-and-glass / triple glazing / low-energy house • the meaning of the
adjectives housebound,
houseproud and
4. Number the boxes to order these types of housing from the house-trained;
largest (1) to the smallest (5). • the difference between a
householder and a
a) a bedsit in a tower block d) a one-bedroom thatched cottage housekeeper.
b) a five-storey town house e) a two-up, two-down terraced Try to make example
sentences using these words.
c) a three-bedroom semi house.
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