A HOUSE MADE OF MUD AN IGLOO A TREE HOUSE A HOUSE ON WATER

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1 Matching game. Prepare some sets of cards (pictures- names of the houses - captions). Give a set of cards to each group. Students have to match each picture with the name of the house and the correct caption. A HOUSE MADE OF MUD Many African people live in a house like this. It s cool in summer and warm in winter. AN IGLOO This house is made of snow blocks. You can see it in very cold places. A TREE HOUSE This house is made of wood with a straw roof. It s a safe place from wild animals. A HOUSE ON WATER The house is made of the wood of mangrove tree. You can see it in Malaysia. 1

2 A HOUSE ON STILTS This house helps to keep the water out when it rains a lot. The floor of the house is 2 meters high. A BULLA Nomad people live in this kind of house. You can see this house in Eritrea. A TEPEE Native American who move to live for hunting. The house is made of sticks and buffalo skin. WHITE HOUSES They are made of bricks and painted in white to reject the sunrays. They have small windows too and shutter. 2

3 A BOAT HOUSE The walls and the roof are made of a special water plant called rushes. Bajau people in Southeast Asia live on water. A YURT It is a transferable nomad house. A framework made of wood is covered with the white cloth and the ceiling can be opened for the smoke. A JAPANESE HOUSE This house has bamboo or paper walls to divide the rooms. A LOG HOUSE You can see this house in Norway, Finland, Sweden, Estonia and Russia. 3

4 ANCIENT CAVE HOUSES Christians built these houses to hide before Christianity became an accepted religion AN UNDERGROUND HOUSE This is an underground house in Andulucia of south Spain. It s called Cueba'. 4

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12 Cave = grotta Ceiling= soffitto Cheap= non costoso Chimney = camino Cloth =stoffa Concrete = calcestruzzo Cool= fresco Frame work = struttura Hiding = nascondersi GLOSSARY HOUSES: detached semidetached terraced bungalow Hunting = cacciare Keep away = tenere lontano Log = tronchi Mangrove tree = mangrovia Mat = tappeto Mud = fango Resting= riposo Roof = tetto Rooms: kitchen (cucina), bathroom (bagno), living room (salotto), bedroom (camera da letto) study room (studio), store room (sgabuzzino), sitting room (sala da pranzo), cellar (cantina), staircase (scala), attic room (mansarda) Rushes = giunco Shutters= persiane Skin = pelle Smoke = fumo Stilts = pali Stone=pietra Stove = fornello Strong = resistente Thick = spesso Tuff = tufo Walls = muro Wool = lana 12

13 WHAT WHERE IT S MADE OF Other information

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15 A HOUSE MADE OF MUD Many African people live in houses made of mud bricks. These houses sometimes have a straw roof. The mud bricks are cheap to make. Africa is a very hot continent. The mud bricks are thick and keep the house cool in summer and warm in winter. AN IGLOO The Inuit Eskimos live in the igloo. It is made of snow blocks. You can see an igloo in North America, Alaska and Canada where it s very cold. It is very warm inside an igloo because the snow blocks the cold outside. Inuit Eskimos only build igloos to live in when they are out hunting and cannot go back home. 15

16 A TREE HOUSE The people in the south of Philippines used to live in tree houses. The tree house is made of wood with a straw roof. People can get cool air from the tree house and keep away from wild animals. The tree houses are now used for meeting and resting. A HOUSE ON WATER The fishermen in Saba, Malaysia, live on the water. The house is made of the wood of mangrove tree which has the durability against the sea water. The roof is made of straw. 16

17 A HOUSE ON STILTS Sometimes houses are built on stilts like in Thailand, Cambodia and New Guinea. This helps to keep the water out when it rains a lot. The house is made of wood and palm leaves. The floor of the house is 2 meters high and it keeps the house cool. Some people keep the animals under the house. A BULLA Nomad people live in houses that can be moved from place to place. This house is from Eritrea. The house is made of straw. The Bedouin people live in tents in the desert. Summer tents are white; winter dark. 17

18 A TEPEE Tepees are the houses of the Native American who move to live for hunting. This house is from Canada. The house is made of sticks and buffalo skin. campus cloth. They only use TEPEE when there is a festival. WHITE HOUSES In these days, they use You can see white houses in hot places like South Italy, Greece and Portugal. They are made of bricks and painted in white to reject the sunrays and keep the house cool inside. They have small windows too and shutters. 18

19 A BOAT HOUSE Bajau people in Southeast Asia live on the water. Their houseboats are made of wood. The walls and the roof are made of a special water plant called rushes YURT This is a Yurt in Mongolia. It is a transferable nomad house. A framework made of wood is covered with the white cloth filled with wool. In the centre, they place the stove and the ceiling can be opened for the smoke. 19

20 A JAPANESE HOUSE Houses in japan are made of wood and have bamboo or paper walls to divide the rooms. In parts of some houses you spend most of the time on the floor on mats. A LOG HOUSE There are some people in Norway, Finland, Sweden, Estonia and Russia who live in log houses. They are very strong and warm. 20

21 ANCIENT CAVE HOUSES These are ancient tuff houses in Capadocia. Christians built these houses to hide before Christianity became an accepted religion UNDERGROUND HOUSE This is an underground house in Andulucia of south Spain. It s called Cueba'. It s carved in the stone. It s cool inside in summer and warm during the winter. 21

22 SIMILAR OR DIFFERENT? Compare the houses in pairs. animal skins mud is made of bricks An African house wood a house of. straw A Greek house is different from a hut snow cloth A BULLA is similar to an igloo because. AN IGLOO a tepee is for Nomadic people Eskimos people A TREE HOUSE a hot climate a cold climate A YURT keeping wild animals away. A Japanese house A LOG HOUSE 22