Houses, not flats - раздел Образование, ENGLISH FOR FUTURE TEACHERS A Large, Detached House Not Only Ensures Privacy. It Is Also A Status Symbol....
A large, detached house not only ensures privacy. It is also a status symbol. At the extreme end of the scale there is the aristocratic ‘stately home’ set in acres of garden. Of course, such a house is an unrealistic dream for most people. But even a small detached house, surrounded by garden, gives the required suggestion of rural life which is dear to the hearts of many British people. Most people would be happy to live in a cottage, and if this is a thatched cottage, reminiscent of a pre-industrial age, so much the better.
Most people try to avoid living in blocks of flats (what the Americans call ‘apartment blocks’). Flats, they feel, provide the least amount of privacy. With a few exceptions, mostly in certain locations in central London, flats are the cheapest kind of home. The people who live in them are those who cannot afford to live anywhere else.
The dislike of living in flats is very strong. In the 1950s millions of poorer people lived in old, cold, uncomfortable nineteenth century houses, often with only an outside toilet and no bathroom. During the next twenty years many of them were given smart new ‘high rise’ blocks of flats to live in which, with central heating and bathrooms, were much more comfortable and were surrounded by grassy open spaces. But people hated their new homes. They said they felt cut off from the world all those floors up. They missed the neighbourliness. They couldn’t keep a watchful eye on their children playing down there in those lovely green spaces. The new high-rise blocks quickly deteriorated. The lifts broke down. The lights in the corridors didn’t work. Windows got broken and were not repaired. There was graffiti over the walls.
In theory (and except for the difficulty with supervising children), there is no objective reason why these high-rise blocks (also known as ‘tower blocks’) could not have been a success. In other countries millions of people live reasonably happily in flats. But in Britain they were a failure because they do not suit British attitudes. The failure has been generally recognized for several years now. No more high-rises are being built. At the present time, only 4 % of the population live in one. Only 20 % of the country's households live in flats of any kind.
The image of a home as a castle implies a clear demarcation between private property and the public domain. This is very clear in the case of a detached house. Flats, on the other hand, involve uncertainties. You share the corridor outside your front door, but who with? The other residents on the same floor, or all the residents in the building? What about the foyer downstairs? Is this only for the use of the people who live in the block, or for the public in general? These uncertainties perhaps explain why the ‘communal’ living expected of flat-dwellers has been unsuccessful in most of Britain.
Vocabulary
detached house - отдельный дом
thatched cottage – дом, крытый соломенной крышей
ownership – собственность
to ensure – предоставлять, обеспечивать
to avoid (doing) smth – избегать, уклоняться от
to hate – ненавидеть
to feel cut of from - чувствовать себя отрезанным от мира
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VOCABULARY
living cell of society – живая ячейка общества
to share smth. – делить что-то, делиться чем-то
responsibility – ответственность, обязанность
to start a fa
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to marry smb. – жениться (на ком-л.); выходить замуж (за кого-л.); вступать в брак
to acquire a new family – обзаводиться новой семьей
nuclear family – малая семья; семья, состоящ
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Vocabulary
It doesn’t matter what your home is like – Не имеет значения (неважно), какой у Вас дом
country mansion – большой загородный дом (особняк)
modest – скромный
detached hous
My Flat
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Use the required word in each gap.
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2. A _________ contains generally a bed, a desk and a chest of drawers and a wardrobe. We use it to sleep.
3. We usually
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Across:
2. Devices and services that give comfort.
7. A comfortable chair which has a support on each side for your arms.
11. A long passage in a buildin
Find an extra word in each line.
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in their houses. The only safe generalization is that, what in a house with two floors, (2) __
Answer the questions.
1. Can you describe each room of your house? 2. What does the outside of your house look like? 3. Do you like the place where you are living? Why or why not? 4. What is your favorite room in your h
Choose the right variant.
1. At the moment he _______ a book.
1) is to read
2) are reading
3) am read
4) is reading
2. Yesterday from 5 till 8 we
Vocabulary
leisure (spare) time – свободное время, досуг
to have spare time – иметь свободное время
to spend leisure time – проводить свободное время
to rest – отдыхать
to
Answer the questions.
1. What do you usually do in your free time? 2. Do you often watch TV? 3. What is your favourite TV channel? 4. What is your favourite TV program? 5. Do you often read books? 6. What is your favour
Put in model verbs or their equivalents.
1. My uncle ________ swim very well.
2. I ________ do it right now.
3. ________ I call him later?
4. We ________ go with you, because you will need helper
Translate into English.
1. Я не должен идти туда.
2. Ее двоюродная сестра хорошо умеет играть на гитаре.
3. Можно я пойду домой?
4. Скоро ты сможешь декорировать свою новую комна
I left the room after I had written the test.
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1. Right now I ___ a test in English.
a) write b) was writing c) will be writing d) am writing
2. Some years ago Bob ___ very good at skiing.
Pre-reading focus.
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Use contractions.
Start a new paragraph for each main point you want to make.
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