Exercise 8

Translate these sentences into English:

1. Містер Спліт переїхав до цього маєтку кілька років тому. Спочатку споруда виглядала занедбаною, але хазяїн доклав усіх зусиль, щоб зробити його досить привабливим і величним.

2. Я – студент і живу у гуртожитку. Це моє тимчасове помешкання. Ті, хто мають постійне помешкання, мають більше можливостей зареєструватися у міській бібліотеці чи звернутись до лікарні.

3. Перед будинком місіс Томсон є чудова зелена галявина і доріжка з гравію, що веде якраз до вхідних дверей.

4. На жаль, я не можу собі дозволити побудувати теплицю. Я б дуже хотіла вирощувати там різні овочі, а, можливо, і квіти.

5. В українців є звичай огороджувати двір парканом. Мені подобається, коли цей паркан не кам’яний і не дуже високий. А взагалі мені подобається англійська жива огорожа.

6. Люди завжди приділяють багато уваги умовам проживання. Нехай то буде палац чи замок, мотель чи вілла, або розкішний готельний номер, люди прагнуть відчуття затишку і спокою, залишаючись там.

& Reading

A. Read the text and translate it into Ukrainian. Think of the title for it.

Soon we found ourselves in Spook’s Lane. It is a very short side street leading out to an open country. On one side there are no houses at all. On the other there are only three. The first one is just a house … nothing more to be said about it. The next one is a big, imposing, gloomy house of stone-trimmed red brick, with a mansard roof warty with dormer windows and so many spruces and firs crowding about it that you can hardly see the house. And the third and last is Windy Poplars, right on the corner, with the grass-grown street on the front and a real country road, beautiful with shadows on the other side.

I fell in love with it at once. You know there are houses, which impress themselves upon you at first sight for some reason you can hardly define. Windy Poplars is like that. I may describe it to you as a white house … very white … with green shutters … very green … with a tower in the corner and a dormer window on either side, a low stone wall dividing it from the street, with aspens, poplars growing at intervals along it, and a big garden at the back where flowers and vegetables are delightfully jumbled up together … but all this can’t convey its charm to you. In short, it is a house with a delightful personality and has something of the flavour of Green Gables about it.

I was glad we didn’t have to go in by the front door. It looked so forbidding. It didn’t seem to belong to the house at all. The little green side door, which we reached by a darling path of thin, flat sandstone sunk at intervals in the grass, was much more friendly and inviting. The path was edged by very prim, well-ordered beds of ribbon grass and bleeding heart and tiger lilies and so on. Of course they weren’t all in bloom at this season, but you could see they had bloomed at proper time and done it well.

Dwell upon the following:

1. The second and the third houses are alike.

2. The author fell in love with the first house because it was well-kept.

3. There was a flower bed and a patch at the back of the house.

4. The front door looked forbidding.

5. The little green side door looked forbidding as well.

6. Flowers were in bloom and looked great.

B. Having read this text, describe the outside of your own place of living.

Role-play

1. You prefer to have a nice flat in the centre of the city, your friend prefers a house in the country. Give reasons for and against each.

2. You are going to move to a different residential area. You have several offers. You are discussing flats with various people phoning you. Each side is interested in every detail of the other side.

It is interesting to know

& Reading

Tires are hub of new walls

It’s an environmentalist’s dream: a home that uses lots of waste materials.

The environmentalist’s dream is Janet Degan’s and Craig Siegel’s reality: a large home in Santa Fe, New Mexico, built from used tires, aluminium cans and dirt.

“ I love it,” said Degan recently during a break from the construction work.” I’m a landscape architect and I think this is the best kind of house you can have.”

The homes – these are 80 of them in New Mexico and Colorado – are called earth-ships. They are the creation of architect Michael Reynolds, who started designing houses out of recycled tires and cans in the 1970s.

Degan and Siegel estimate that 800 tires will be used to make the walls. Each tire is packed with dirt. The thick walls will absorb heat during the day and release it at night. The combination of elements will keep the interior temperature at about 60°F (15°C).

The materials for the Degan-Siegal house are much less expensive than for normal houses. Old tires are often given away by tire stores. And Degan picks up cans while she jogs. “One time I got six bags,” she said. The total cost will be about $50 per square foot, or $75,000.

Building the house also has health benefits. “ It’s like a free gym,” she said.

“It’s a great upper body workout. It’s the funniest thing I’ve ever done.”

environmentalist – a person who wants to protect nature

waste – things that are thrown away, garbage

landscape – the area around buildings, or open spaces

recycled – used again

square foot – 1x1, or 144 square inches

benefits – help, advantages

upper body workout –exercise for the arms and chest

Fill in the chart box.

Type of house:
Owners:
Architect:
Location(state):
Materials:
Cost:

Would you like to live in the Degan-Siegal home? Tell a partner why and why not.

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