House and Home

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Unit 3

• House and Home

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Objectives

• To learn to describe both interior and exterior
  of houses
• To help students learn to read advertisements for
  housing

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Suggested topics for research

• Should old buildings remain or be demolished?
• Buying or renting a house?
• Living with parents and living on ones
  ownadvantages vs. disadvantages
• Cultural differences in residence between China
  and the West?
• Housing reform in China

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Group Project Others

• Design your dream house

Unit writing describe your dream house to a
foreigner ? A POSSIBLE tour to Chen Clan Temple
or Xiguan Ancient Grand House!!! (sth. to dream
about)
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The exterior of a house

• Garage vs. shed
• --garage a building for keeping a car in,
  usually next to or attached to a house
• --shed a large industrial building where work is
  done, large vehicles are kept, machinery stored.

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Porch

• Porch (BrE) an entrance
• covered by a roof outside
• the front door of a house
• or a church
• (AmE ) a structure built onto
• The front or back entrance of a house, with a
  floor and a roof but no walls.

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Balcony

• A structure that you can stand on, attached to
  the outside wall of a building, above ground level

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Terrace

• A flat outdoor area next to a building or on a
  roof where you can sit outside to eat, relax etc.

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Curtain

• A piece of hanging cloth that can be pulled
  across to cover a window, divide a room etc.

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Blinds Shutters

• Blind a covering, esp. one made of cloth, that
  can be rolled up and down to coer a window inside
  a building.
• Shutter one of a pair of wooden or metal covers
  on the outside of a window that can be closed to
  keep light out or prevent thieves from coming in.

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Screen

• A wire net fastened inside a frame in front of a
  window or door to keep insects out. ??

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Dormer attic

• Dormer a window built into a roof, so that it
  sticks out from the roof.
• Attic a space or room just below the roof of a
  house, often used for storing things.

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Lawn garden courtyard backyard

• Lawn an area of ground in a garden or park that
  is covered with short grass
• Garden (BrE) the area of land next to a house,
  where there are flowers, grass, and other plants,
  and often a place for people to sit
• (AmE) yard
• Courtyard an open space that is completely or
  partly surrounded by buildings
• Backyard 1British English a small area behind a
  house, covered with a hard surface
• 2 American English an area of land behind a
  house, often covered with grass

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Fence hedge

• Fence a structure made of wood, metal etc that
  surrounds a piece of land
• Hedge a row of small bushes or trees growing
  close together, usually dividing one field or
  garden from another

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Post Pillar

• Post a strong upright piece of wood, metal etc
  that is fixed into the ground, especially to
  support something
• Pillar a tall upright round post used as a
  support for a roof or bridge

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Drive driveway

• The hard area or road between your house and the
  street.

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Door gate

• Door movable panel at an entrance
• Gate the part of a fence or outside wall that
  you can open and close to enter or leave.

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French window

• A pair of doors made mostly of glass, usu.
  opening onto a garden or balcony

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Steps stairs

• Steps a flat narrow piece of wood or stone, esp.
  one in a series, that you put your foot on when
  you are going up or down, esp. outside a
  building.
• Stairs a set of steps for going from one level
  of a building to another.
• Doorstep a step just outside a door to a house
  or building.

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Gutter

• Gutter 1 the low part at the edge of a road
  where water collects and flows away
• 2 an open pipe fixed to the edge of a roof to
  collect and carry away rain water