Unit 10 Somewhere to live

1. a cottage / bungalow / detached

house / semi-detached house /

terraced house / farmhouse /

mansion / villa / time-share / hut

2. a bedsit / studio (flat) / penthouse

(flat) / maisonette

3. to inhabit / occupy / settle / lodge /

squat / stay;

4. spacious / impressive / handy /

delightful / superb / purpose-built /

prime (areas) / double-fronted /

period / good-sized / wellproportioned

/ open-plan / secluded

5. a TV aerial

6. a window pane / frame

7. a chimney

8. to face south / north

9. a door / window in the wall

10. to open into a room

11. to lead to / into / up to a room

12. to open off

13. to come out into sth

14. a room about 5m by 6m / 7m

square

15. a room which measures 2m by

3m

16. on either side of sth

17. stairs / a flight of stairs / a staircase / a stairwell

18. to lower / raise / straighten / take

down sth

19. to convert into / change into / turn into

20. a fire escape – a metal staircase on the outside of a building

21. an emergency exit

22. to make a difference

23. the main downstairs (upstairs)

room

24. a store-room (storage space)

25. the ladies / the gents

26. to redecorate / renovate sth

27. built-in cupboards / fitted carpets

28. to show smb round the flat

29. to catch fire

30. fire hazard

31. fire resistant / fireproof

32. the lot

33. to have a lucky / narrow escape

34. to take a cup of tea in bed

35. lethal smoke / fumes

36. to drip

37. to spot

38. to pour out

39. to shatter; shattered windows

40. to char; charred window frames

41. to locate

42. a localised fire

43. adjoining

44. to sort out (into)

45. to bundle

46. to work one’s way through

47. to raise the alarm

48. damage to (the house)

49. interior decoration

50. a subterranean house

51. to cope with

52. an en suite bathroom; a

bathroom en suite

53. to pass on useful tips

54. to feel trapped

55. a domed window

56. by moonlight

57. to be linked to sth

58. to be lined with sth

59. outer / curved / straight walls

60. to tuck in / into

61. immediately to the left

62. square / circular / rectangular /

oval / egg-shaped / ovoid

63. tied accommodation / housing

64. a tenant

65. to be suitably designed

66. to mount up

67. to get on a rung of the mortgage

ladder

68. to take out a mortgage

69. to be grossly overpriced

70. to be in the price range

71. recession

72. to be below poverty line

73. to afford housing

74. housing budget

75. street homelessness

76. to sleep rough

77. to be accepted as homeless

78. to register with a local council as

homeless

79. to reach crisis point

80. a household

81. to live in over-crowded

conditions

82. to live in substandard

accommodation

83. to be on council house waiting list

84. a dwelling

85. unfit for human habitation

86. to raise doubts about smth.

87. housing estate

88. slum clearance scheme

89. self-contained (districts / towns)

90. within 10 minutes’ walking

distance

91. resident / city dweller / urban

squatter /urbanite

92. to put / lay the blame on smb.

93. to replace smth. with smth.

94. high-rise buildings

95. to renovate

96. to demolish

97. to mushroom

98. to swarm

99. a shanty town

100. to loom

101. congested (population, traffic)

102. to generate

103. to outstrip

104. to stand at (18 mln)

105. to top some point

106. to engulf

107. to confront

108. to confound

109. barely adequate

110. boom

111. to spawn

112. to swell

113. to put a premium on

114. virtually

115. runaway (growth, inflation)

116. to stem

117. to rehouse

118. residence permit

119. to ride on the crest of the wave