Classify the properties of building materials listed below as advantageous and disadvantageous.

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5. Answer the questions.

1. Why is concrete more fit for foundation?
2. What floor covering is the best?
3. What colour should bedroom walls be? (kitchen walls, living-room walls)
4. What should a chimney be made of?
5. Why is it nice to have a mantelpiece?
6. What timber is considered to be the best for the window frames?
7. What professionals does a construction team need?

6. Classify the properties of building materials listed below as advantageous and disadvantageous.

Advantages:

Disadvantages:

High cost, low water-resistance, heat-insulation, fire-resistance, light weight, durability, low strength, hardness, low cost, corrosion-resistance, heavy weight, softness, high strength, non-fire-resistance, sound insulation.

7. Choose from the block the antonyms for the following adjectives:

Natural, light, exterior, cheap, disadvantages, weak, primary, combustible, unstable, main, soft.

advantageous –        durable –

artificial –                heavy –

auxiliary –               strong –

interior –                  fire-proof –

hard –                      expensive –

8. Learn the dialogue by heart.

Customer: I would like to order a countryside house. Here is the project.
Foreman: Let’s see. A two-storey house with a garage. Ten rooms and two staircases. What will the foundation made of? Concrete?
C: Yes, ferro-concrete.

F: And what about the walls?

C: I want red brick walls. The windows are large. By the way, the panes should be airtight. I want them to be double-glazing.
F: We’ll make them hermetic with patty. We put it in the grooves, and then fix the panes.

C: Excellent. The hinges and handles should be bronze.
F: Ok. What type of roof would you like?
C: I want the roof to be flat, with a small garden.

F: Do you have an interior designer?

C: Yes, but the drafts aren’t ready.

F: What idea does he have?

C: There will be a mantelpiece in the hall and the walls will be decorated with panels.
F: Plastic panels?

C: Oh, no. Panels must be of wood.

F: What wood do you prefer?

C: I think oak is the best.

F: How do you pay the construction?

C: I’ve got the mortgage for 25 years from the bank.

F: So we’ll make oak panels then.

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