Homes Around the World

These pages on the Internet have pictures of houses from different countries.

1 Look at these drawings.
Can you find the country where there is –

a) an adobe
b) a pueblo
c) a straw house on water
d) a red brick house
e) a house carved out of caves

http://www.picadome.fcps.net/lab/student_pjt/2000/homes/default.htm


2 Go to this page on the Internet –

Which house do you think is the wierdest? Which house would you like to live in?

www.hgpho.to/wfest/house/house-e.html

3 Look at these houses –

Where would I find a house that breathes through the chimney?

Where would I find houses with pointed roofs?

Where would I find houses wearing hats?

Where would I find a house with eyes in its roof?

Where would I find a house under ground?

Where would I find earthen castles?

Where would I find houses shaped like acorns?

Where would I find a house with an upside down roof?

Where would I find a house that I could fold up?

Where would I find people living in a circle?

http://www.shelterpub.com/_wonderful_houses/WH_p2-5.html

4 Play a matching game here –

www.sadlier-oxford.com/readers/socialstudies/book2/game.htm

5 You are very rich. You can buy any of these houses.
Which one is yours? Mine is in Los Angeles!

http://www.hiltonhyland.com/properties.php

6 Crazy houses! Look at these photographs. Which one is your favourite?

http://english.pravda.ru/photo/report/house-907