1. HOUSES

2. TYPES OF HOUSES Houses can be: 1 Detached 2 Semi-detached 3 Terraced
4 Block of flats
5 Cottage

3. DETACHED AND SEMI-DETACHED
1 A detached house is separated from other buildings. It generally has a large
garden and a garage. It’s very expensive,
but it is garanteed privacy.
2 A semi-detached house generally has two
storeys, a front and a back garden. The
kitchen,the living and the dining room are
downstairs,bedrooms and the bathroom are upstairs

4. A detached house

5. TERRACED HOUSES Terraced houses are also very common.
They are rows of houses all joined together
in a street.
Lots of families live in terraced houses.
They have a small front garden

6. FLATS But nowadays the most common type of house is the flat.
Lots of families live in flats because they aren’t expensive.
Flats are grouped in a
building called block of flats, that is situated in
big towns

7. Cottages A cottage is a small house in the countryside.
Its roof can be made in straw

8. Let’s go into a modern house! Modern ways to divide the space
In a modern house there are three areas:
The living area
The kitchen
The sleeping area

9. The living area In this area with multiple purposes you can stay
during the day, have a break or receive guests.
Usually in this area there are a sofà,two armchairs
and a TV, but also you can find shelves with books.

10. The kitchen The kitchen is a space that fulfills your needs.
It’s the area where we cook and eat.
A table, some chairs and a long piece of furniture
can take the space.
This room in the picture
is quite
small and here we
eat informal meals

11. The sleeping area In the sleeping area you sleep during the night.
In this room there are one or two beds and a wardrobe.

12. The bathroom In this room you get washed. A modern bathroom has
a WC,a washbasin and a
shower

13. The house 100 years ago
100 years ago the middle class families lived in
buildings of two or three floors.
In a flat there was the division of the space into
rooms. There was a large entrance with a corridor,
A long narrow passage with doors along it leading to rooms:
The kitchen
The dining room
The living room

14. The kitchen
The kitchen had a table in the centre used as plan of work,too.

15. The dining room The dining room had dark wood furniture and a table
in the center for important
lunches.There was a
sideboard that showed the
important service of dishes
and cups

16. The living room In the living room there was a sofa with
armchairs in velvet or
damask.In this room guests were received.
There was a writing table and a piece of
furniture with the
gramophone

17. This work was produced by…
Lorenzo Contri
Marco Salib Saleh
Stefano Vannini
Irene Chiarantini
Maddalena Magherini
class 2 A
pictures from GOOGLE