Furniture

Another big difference among homes is in the type of furniture, and where it is placed in the room. Homes in the USA look cluttered to many visitors because they are full of chairs, tables and chests. Americans often place the furniture around the walls. In Japan, however, furniture is often in the centre of the room, and sometimes there is no furniture. In German homes the furniture is traditionally solid and heavy, and stays fixed in one place. In many countries, including Ethiopia and Iran, Japan, Laos and Turkey, to name only a few, people often prefer to sit on floor mats or beautiful rugs, and not on chairs. Thus, rooms can have less furniture than in the West.

Closed doors, open doors, or no doors; thick walls, paper walls, no walls; lots of furniture, little furniture, or no furniture at all - these are just some of the differences we find from home to home, place to place.

partitiona divider or wall / a room divider

uniquespecial, one-of-a-kind

semi-fixedpartly attached

As you read, try to fill in the boxes with a word or two.

	Japan	Germany	The USA
Doors		heavy, often closed
Walls
Furniture

Exercise 1

Write in which room you would look for the following people

1. an artist a _ t _ _ _ _

2. a football player a ch _ _ _ _ _ _ - room

3. a gardener in winter a c _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

4. a novelist a s _ _ _ _

5. a patient before an appointment a _ _ _ _ _ _ _ room

6. a photographer developing pictures a _ _ _ k _ _ _ _

7. a prisoner a _ _ l _

8. some workers during their lunchbreak a c _ _ _ _ _ _

9. some teachers between lessons a s _ _ _ _- _ _ _ _

Exercise 2

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