34 Houses and Apartments Lesson D 35

Goal 4 Compare
houses
Work with a partner. Take turns.
Compare your own house with the
houses in the reading.
Writing
A. Look at the pictures. Where do you think the
houses are?
B. Read and answer the questions.
1. Is there a bathroom in the tree house?
_____________
2. Is it hot in an igloo? _______________
3. How many rooms are in the igloo?
_________________
4. Are there a lot of rooms in Dar Al Hajar?
________________
5. Are there bedrooms in the Crooked
House? ________________
D
GOAL 4 COMPARE HOUSES
Reading

Unusual Houses
Te Kombai people of Irian Jaya live in tree houses.
Te houses are high in the trees. Tere is only
one room in the house. It is the kitchen, the living
room, the dining room, and the bedroom.
Tis house is called Dar Al Hajar. It is in Yemen.
It is a big house and there are a lot of rooms in
the house. It is hot in Yemen, but it is not hot
inside the house.
A. Look at this plan of a house. Complete the
paragraph.
Abraham Niaqu is from Quebec in Canada. He
is making a snow house called an igloo. Tere
is only one room in an igloo. It is not cold in an
igloo. In fact, it is quite hot.
Tis house is called the Crooked House.
However, it is not a house. Nobody lives
in it. It is a shopa very special shop! Te
architect, Szotynscy Zaleski, got the idea from
a childrens book. It is very unusual.
This is a plan of a house. There is a small
kitchen. In the kitchen there is a __________,
and a refrigerator. The kitchen is next to the
__________ room. In the dining room there
is a table with six chairs. The living room is
__________ the dining room. There is a sofa
and two armchairs in the living room. There
are two __________ in the houseone big
bedroom and a small bedroom. There is a
__________ in the big bedroom.
B. Now write about your house.
In my house there is . . .
There is one bedroom in the
tree house. There are three
bedrooms in my house.
an Irian Jaya treehouse