Ex. 3. Use the following words in the sentences and write down small situations of your own
1. A kind of house; building materials; made of wood; trees; skins of animals; leaves and grass; primitive people; stone; without cement; earthenhouses; shallow hole of oval shape.
2. Ancient Egyptians; dried bricks in the sun; flat roof; simple in construction; art of building; pyramids; sphinxes; arouse our admiration; art of making columns.
3. Widespread use of steel; reinforced concrete; site; assembly shop; technique; less expensive; less labourous; diversity of architectural styles; alternative; to experience shortage of.
Ex. 4. Comment on the following quotation:
“Architecture has always the function in mind, never itself. It serves the user, supports and optimizes. A building isn’t defined in a specific language, but specializes the extant influences. A house is the logical consequence”.
Ex. 5. Make a report about one of the architects or architectural styles you like.
Speech Exercises
1. Read and memorize the idioms and proverbs on the “home” and “house” words. Use them in the dialogues and monologues.
| 1. | A home away from home/a home from home | Второй дом |
| 2. | Be not at home to anyone | Никого не принимать |
| 3. | Broken home | Раcпавшаяся семья |
| 4. | Down-home | Простецкий, непритязательный |
| 5. | Eat out of house and home | Объедать, разорять |
| 6. | Hearth and home | Домашний очаг |
| 7. | House and home | Домашний уют |
| 8. | In one’s home or room | У себя |
| 9. | Make yourself at home | Будьте как у себя дома |
| 10. | Neither house nor home | Ни кола, ни двора |
| 11. | New home | Новоселье |
| 12. | Nothing to write home about (разг.) | Ничего особенного, так себе |
| 13. | Out and home | Туда и обратно |
| 14. | When my ship comes home | Когда я разбогатею |
| 15. | At home even the walls help | Дома и стены помогают |
| 16. | One mustn’t venture into others’ home with a charter of one’s own | Со своим уставом не ходят в чужой монастырь |
| 17. | Dry bread at home is better than roast meat abroad | В гостях хорошо, а дома лучше |
| 18. | Home is home(ly) | В гостях хорошо, а дома лучше |
Ex. 2. Read the following sentences, add your own and compose the advertisement of the designing company.
1. Dressing rooms are becoming more and more popular in modern apartments. Creating a special room for lodging avoid piling furniture up and maintain light and space in your house.
2. Individual projects, special details of each apartment, and wide range of materials give opportunity to build dressing rooms of any complicity.
3. Laminated panels with thicknesses of 16, 19 and 25 mm and twelve different patterns are used for inner shelves and side walls.
4. Standard dressing room contains wire-net baskets (Norway) with sliding or roller runners, rods, power lifts and drawers are all made-to-measurer. Sliding brackets are proposed in case of small depth (less than 50 cm).
5. For more effective usage of the inner space the room can be equipped with extra sliding accessories: a trousers section, a tie bracket, multi-cell drawers for underwear and small garments, and a shelf for knitted wear with a mesh bottom for “breathing”.
6. The premium quality of plastic and natural wood edging makes the construction look respectable and presentable.
Ex. 3. A. Read the following newspaper ad on rent and make up two ads of your own, describing an apartment and a house.
B. Now act as a real estate agent. Offer your client apartments and houses using the ads. Give a more detailed description of the apartment or the house, your client is interested in. Answer the questions.
A very large 1st floor apartment forming part of a new development located in a prime residential area. Accommodation in the form of a large sitting/dining room on entrance, kitchen/living/dining room, 3 double bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, spare toilet, private washroom and roof space. This is an ideal home for a large family. Finishing works optional.