6.8 Закончи предложения:

1. The foundations have to be strong enough

1. to prevent them from cracking.

2. to level the ground.

3. to support the building.

2. The house will rest on

1. a concrete foundation.

2. the first courses of bricks.

3. top of a footing of concrete.

3. Scaffolding and platforms are provided for the workers

1. to stand on.

2. to lift up the building materials.

3. to go up and down.

4. Slates are made of

1. clay.

2. wood.

3. any waterproof materials.

5. Drainage pipes are connected to

1. the bathroom and kitchen fittings.

2. the drains and sewers.

3. the floorboards.

6. The last thing to do in the house is

1. to install central heating boilers.

2. to finish the wooden floors, window frames and doors.

3. to paint the house.

6.9 Прочитай, заполни пропуски артиклями a/the и письменно переведи текст Houses and Homes:

Every country has its distinctive housing. Cross from England into Scotland or from France into Germany or Spain, and you know instantly that you are in another country. It is partly _ matter of architecture, partly _ matter of _ way people choose to domesticate their immediate surroundings.

_ English are distinctive in their aversion to flats and their devotion to rows of small brick houses. Travel from Western France across Europe to _ Urals and you will see cities surrounded by modem blocks of high-rise flats. _ details of architecture will vary, but all countries have found that _ obvious solution to cheap new housing to accommodate.

Families moving in from the countryside or demanding improved conditions within _ towns is to build blocks of flats. They stand in rows and clusters, not beautiful, not spacious, but convenient and efficient. _ problems are similar: noise, cramped public areas, unpredictable water supplies, broken lifts but they are homes for millions of people who prefer them to _ more primitive conditions they have left. In England, however, this is not so.

Of course some English people enjoy flat-life, but for _ vast majority of them, _ basic idea of home is _ brick house with rooms upstairs and downstairs. And already _ English have _ confusion of terms in translating to and from Russian. _ English use _ word house for _ dwelling intended for one family. They would never say of _ block of flats that it is _ house, and hence “DOM” has no exact equivalent in English. They always distinguish _ flat from _ house, not because _ house is grander (it may be _ tiny section of _ row of dwellings) but because _ flat is still unusual, except in city centres where it is unusual to live anyway. _ word home is much more personal, much warmer: your home is _ place where you live which you have created — its furnishings but also its atmosphere, your sense of other people who live in it, your feelings about its past as well as its present. Something of _ Russian feeling about _ privacy of kitchens is found in _ English word home.

_ Russians have _ habit of describing anything built before about 1955 as “old”. In England _ house does not qualify as old unless it was built at least _ hundred years ago. _ English still have hundreds of thousands of really old houses, built between _ 14th and 18th centuries scattered throughout _ country. They are considered very desirable and are very expensive even if they are small. Many of them are strikingly beautiful. At _ other end of _ scale are bungalows, small brick houses of only one storey, built especially for _ elderly. Many older people move from _ house into _ bungalow.