III. Answer the following questions

1. What is the basic problem in planning a house and furnishing a room?

2. How are the walls, floors, ceilings and openings designed and arranged?

3. What two ways of organizing areas for living do you know?

III. Give the English equivalent to :

Планировка жилого дома, во многих отношениях, меблировка комнаты, основная проблема, организация пространства, с учетом нужд народа, отдельные комнаты, строительные материалы, современная архитектура.

Lesson 10

C olours in your home

I. Read the text and give definitions of colours in your own house.

If you know what colour makes you fell happiest, if you can select a dress that complements your natural colouring, then you will have no difficulty in selecting the key colour for the interior of your home. Choose a colour that you want to live with, for you will use this key colour throughout your home. It carries the theme. This is what interior designers call colour continuity. In a single room or a whole house, this repeating of a colour brings unity.

Colour continuity is important. When one room opens into another, the colours may change places in the second room but a colour continuity must be preserved. For instance, the blue of the wall in one room may drop to the floor or rise to the ceiling in the other room. But except in rare cases where there is a reason to break the sequences, the major colour scheme should be carried through to the adjacent room.

Colour is a wonderful tool in interior design. It can camouflage had architectural detail, it can emphasize the beauty of good architectural detail. Colour can make a room appear smaller. It can make a room larger. We have said that you cannot use a colour once, then drop it. By the same token you cannot use a colour high on the wall without bringing it down into the room. Remember this when you are contemplating a contrasting valance at your window. The valance will turn out to be an eye – catching, objectionable room feature if you do not make it a part of the room by covering some pieces of furniture, not necessarily in the same fabric, but in the same colour. And this brings us to say that colour used intelligent can do more to make a room both comfortable and beautiful than any other factor, almost as much all other factors used in its design.

II. Active vocabulary.

colour –цвет

architectural design –архитектурная деталь

accentuate – выделять другого начертания

key colour – цвет фонового экрана

natural colour – естественный цвет

III. Answer the following questions.

1. What is colour continuity?

2. Why is colour continuity important?

3. How can a colour continuity be preserved when one room opens into another?

4. What are the effects of colour high on the wall without bringing it down into the room?

5. What are the advantages of colour used intelligently?

IV. Fill in the missing words.

Colour continuity ……..

When one room opens into another …….

Colour is a wonderful tool . …….

V. Give a summary of the text.

Lesson 11

Great Sphinx . The Athenian Acropolis. (Slide Show)

Lesson 12

Colliseum. Hagia Sophia or the Church of Holy Wisdom. (Slide Show)

Lesson 13