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5.  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) Some windows have ____________________that you can close to keep the light out.

e) A house that is protected against heat and cold is ____________________.

f) Windows that have ____________________have three layers of glass.

g) A ____________________ is a vertical window that projects from a pitched roof. h) In a ____________________ area, there are lots of houses and not many offices or shop

6. The floor of a building at ground level is called the “ground floor” in the UK and the “first floor” in the US. Complete the table with some more British- and American-English terms.

British English                                       American English

a) a set of rooms for living in

b) a house with only one level

c) a house joined to another house by a shared wall on one side

d) a house in a row of houses that are all joined together

flat, bungalow, duplex, row house, apartment, semidetached house, ranch house, terraced house

7. Number the phrases to order these types of housing from the largest (1) to the smallest (5).

a) a bedsit in a tower block

b) a five-storey town house

c) a three-bedroom semi

d) a one-bedroom thatched cottage

e) a two-up, two-down terraced house

8. Look up the word house in a dictionary and find out...

• the pronunciation of the verb to house;

• the meaning of the adjectives housebound, houseproudand house-trained;

• the difference between a householder and a housekeeper. Try to make example sentences using these words.

UNIT II. MY HOME IS MY CASTLE

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