What is the word for missing home

11. Какие слова пропущены?

1) Когда моя подруга уезжает, я часто присматриваю за ее кошкой.

2) Я считаю, что ты так много разговариваешь по телефону.

3) Мой дедушка родился в 1930 году и умер в 1999.

4) Вечеринка, которая была в субботу имела большой успех, нам всем она понравилась.

5) Английский легкий или трудный для вас?

6) Все люди – мужчины, женщины и дети любят хорошие фильмы.

7) У меня есть CD диски. Пожалуйста, выбирай любой, какой тебе нравится.

У меня есть немного денег; Я бы хотела купить сувениры для своей семьи.

9) Моя сестра студент университета, но я бы хотела пойти в колледж после школы.

10) У моего друга музыкальный талант, он умеет петь и играть на пианино.

1) look;

2) talk;

3) died;

4) success;

5) difficult;

6) women;

7) choose;

moneу;

9) college;

10) talent

What does the word ‘home’ mean for you? How do you say the
word in French? In Spanish? In German? In your language?

Although people usually know what the word means, it often has no
exact translation. It’s not surprising really, because the idea of
home varies from country to country and from person to person. A home
is more than a roof and four walls. It’s the cooking, eating,
talking, playing and family living that go on inside which are
important as well. And at home you usually feel safe and relaxed.

The original meaning of the word ‘home’, in English and
other Indo-European languages too, was a safe dwelling place, a
village, even a world. In Old English it came to mean a fixed abode
where people habitually lived and sometimes was extended to include
members of a family. Webster’s says that‘house’comes
from the same root as ‘sky’ and was used to mean a ‘covering
and concealing’. Our modern usage of these two words can be traced
back to these original meanings. ‘Home’ has connotations of a
feeling of belonging, a centre of affection, a place where you can
find refuge and rest, it is something intimate and private.
Generally, ‘home’ only refers to one’s own place; we’d say ‘I
went round to Adrian’s ‘house’ not his ‘home’. House, in
the meaning of a covering or storage place, is clear in such things
as a greenhouse, hen-house, the House of Commons, a clearinghouse,
etc. It is a physical structure not a place where one should
supposedly receive kind treatment and feel relaxed (‘Make yourself
at home’).

Exercise 1

Think of all the compound words beginning with ‘home’ (e.g.
homebred, -coming,

-less, -made, -maker, -stead, -straight, -video, -work, -land, -team)
and compare these with any expressions containing ‘house’.

Exercise 2

How many new words can you make by combining a word on the left with
a word on the right? Use your dictionaries to help with the meaning
and the spelling.

Exercise 3

Listen to the conversations. They contain examples of some of the
compounds in Exercise 2. After each conversation, discuss these two
questions.

Who is talking to who? What exactly are they talking about?

Here are some lines from the coversations. Fill the gaps with a
compound word.

1. She is so cute. Is she ________ yet?

2. Do you think you could possibly water my _________ for me?

3. Don’t worry, I know how ________ you are. I’ll make sure
   everything stays clean and tidy.

4. Let’s give her a spectacular ________ party when she gets back.

5. Not me. I’m the original happy _________, remember? Four kids,
   _______ cakes, _________ vegetables!

6. We’re having a _________ party on the 12^th. Can you
   come?

7. ‘Yeah. Mind you, there’s much more _________ to do!’ ‘That’s
   a drag!’

8. I never thought you’d be so __________.

Listening

Listen to three people from Uganda, South Africa and China. What do
they miss most when they are away from home? Fill in a table below.

 Reading

Have you ever felt homesick? Read the passage from a boy’s
story, Tom Sawyer, by Mark Twain, a very famous
American novelist. In this extract Tom and his friends have gone
camping.

They found plenty of things to be delighted with, but nothing to be
astonished at. They discovered that the island was about three miles
long and a quarter of a mile wide, and that the shore it lay closest
to was only separated from it by a narrow channel hardly two hundred
yards wide. They took a swim about every hour, so it was close upon
the middle of the afternoon when they got back to camp. They were too
hungry to stop to fish, but they fared sumptuously upon cold ham, and
then threw themselves down in the shade to talk. But the talk soon
began to drag, and then died. The stillness, the solemnity that
brooded in the woods, and the sense of loneliness, began to tell upon
the spirits of the boys. They fell to thinking. A sort of undefined
longing crept upon them. This took dim shape, presently – it was
budding homesickness. But they were all ashamed of their weakness,
and none was brave enough to speak his thought.

Answer the following questions:

1. Who are ‘they’? Where are they?

2. How are they feeling? Why are they ashamed of the way they are
   feeling?

3. Have you ever been camping with some friends? Have you ever been
   exploring?

4. When was the first time you slept away from home? How did you feel?
   What home comforts did you miss the most?

5. When you go to another place or abroad, what do you miss the most
   about your home town and country? (family, friends, pets, house,
   food and drink, culture, sense of humour, TV, shops, institutions,
   not being able to speak your native language?)

6. How often do you phone and write home when you are away?

Very often people can’t say what a home is, because they don’t
feel it. For some people it’s the best place in the world, but
others want to get out of that place as soon as possible. Home is not
just a house you live in, it’s a good atmosphere in the family that
makes a house home. Read the following opinions and underline the
main ideas.

KATE: What is home
for me? I can say that my home is the best place in the world. It’s
a place where I can always meet love and sincerity of my relatives.
Only there I can find kindness of my mother and understanding of my
father. To me being at home always means being with my family who
cares for me and supports me when I need it. People say “East or
West, home is best” and I completely agree with them. Wherever I
am, I always feel lonely and miserable, because I can’t stay away
from home for a long time. I can’t even imagine being far from my
parents, as it is very difficult for me to do without their help and
respect. You know I’m happy only when we are together. Only then I
feel desirable, for I know that they also need my attention and
sympathy. I don’t understand those people who say that for them
their home is just a roof over their heads. Can it be true? I guess
not, because I think that a real home is a place where you feel cosy
and safe, otherwise it is not home.

NATALY: What is
home? I know that when people say “home” they mean their family
first of all. I think that they are right. I also believe that home
is the place where I can find care and attention of my parents. I
need them very much, especially when I am in trouble, because I think
that they are always the first people to help me. I like my home
because I was born and brought up there and my dearest people live in
that place. But now when I am grown-up enough to live on my own I
think that I need more independence and freedom. I’m grown-up
enough to make my own decisions and to build a home of my own. I
think of a place where I can have a rest and stay alone, for only the
feeling of independence can make me happy and comfortable at home. I
am thankful to my parents for their understanding and attention, but
my idea of home is a little bit different from my relatives. And this
is the only reason I’d like to live on my own.

MARK: Home? To my mind home is just a house you
live in. It’s simply a roof over my head and a place where I sleep
and eat. Some people say that their homes are the only places they
feel comfortable in. I can’t agree with them. My home is like a
cage for me, where I’m not allowed to do what I really want. I
can’t say that my parents are cruel and rude with me, but they live
their own lives and are not very much interested in mine. My parents
never pay attention to me and they don’t want to understand my
soul. What’s more I never feel desirable at home, because my
parents ignore me very much. I try to spend at home as little time as
possible. I like to be with my friends, because I know that they need
me. My home is the last place I want to be at, because I feel lonely
there. It’s lonely there. It’s not a home, it’s just a place
where I live.

Exercise 4

Look through the opinions to say whether the following ideas are
true or false. If the idea is wrong correct it.

1. Kate likes her home very much.

2. Nataly wants to live at home as long as possible.

3. Mark doesn’t like his home.

4. Kate’s parents understand her perfectly.

5. Nataly can always find care and attention in her home.

6. Mark’s home is a cage for him.

7. Kate feels lonely and miserable at home.

8. Nataly thinks that she is grown-up enough to live alone.

9. Mark likes to spend a lot of time at home.

10. Kate suffers a lot when she is far from home.

11. Nataly’s idea about her home is similar to her parents’ idea.

12. Mark’s parents are rude and cruel.

Exercise 5

Look into the opinions on the problems that bother people very
much. Complete the following table and explain why you think so.

As you see these people really have some problems. What can you
advise them to do to solve these problems?

Exercise 6

Say who these words belong to. Do you agree or disagree with the
following words? Comment on them and explain why you think so.

• ‘My home is the best place in the world’.

• ‘I need more independence and freedom’.

• ‘East or West, home is best’.

• ‘My home is just a roof over my head’.

• ‘I can’t stay away from home for a long time’.

• ‘I am grown-up enough to live on my own’.

• ‘My parents are not interested in my life’.

• ‘Home means family first of all’.

• ‘I can’t feel desirable at home’.

• ‘Home is the place where you always feel cosy and safe,
  otherwise it’s not home’.

• ‘Only at home you can meet understanding and care of your
  parents’.

• ‘My home is the last place I’d like to be at’.

Speaking

What is your idea about ‘home’? Can you explain what the word
‘home’ means to you? Find whether your groupmates share the idea
about home with you or not? Why?

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Some additional material to Form 10 Unit 2 Houses and Homes

Grammar: revision of used to
Speaking: interior and exterior of homes of the past

Vocabulary

1. Add two more words to the list. What type of house do you live in?

terraced mansion semi-detached studio detached cottage castle bungalow … …
(suggested answer: flat, villa, etc)

2. Match the opposites. Which adjectives best describe your house?

3. List the words under the headings. Use them to talk about your house.

• attic • living room • kitchen • garden • rug • floor • fence • pillows • windows • porch • balcony • cushions • hall • fireplace • brick walls • lamp • bedroom • dining room • four-poster beds • cupboard• chest of drawers • carpet• wardrobe • mirror • fridge • cooker • towels • shower• staircase • garage • chimney

4. Reading

a. Look at the headings and the pictures. What are the texts about? Which country are these houses in?
b. Listen to the recording.
c. Read the texts. Fill in the missing words to make the sentences complete.

Скачать аудио (duration 1,53 min)

Victorian houses

The early Victorians liked large houses with plenty of decoration. Later in the Victorian period, houses were simple 0) and plain. Wealthy people used to live 1) ….. large detached houses with lots of rooms and expensive furniture.

Servants used to live 2)…. the top floor of the house or the attic. The exterior of the house 3) …. a work of art with a sleep tiled roof, tall chimney pots and large bay windows 4)…. stained glass. Sometimes they had a front porch (портик; крытая галерея, крыльцо) and steps up to the front door. Working people used to live in terraced brick houses with a simple exterior. Those houses were small with two or four rooms. 5)……..was no electricity no water and no toilet.

*bay window — a curved area of a room or building that sticks out (выделяется) from the rest of the building

Elizabethan houses

Elizabethan manor houses often had an E- shape to show respect for 6) …. queen. They had brick walls with strong wooden frames. The houses were spacious and comfortable with a large hall, a dining room and 7) ….. bedrooms.

The furniture was big and elaborate and four-poster beds were very popular.

Many people used to have servants. 8)…. used to live in rooms in the attic.

6. Preparing to speak: underline the words that describe interior and exterior and special features of the houses so that to use them in your future description.

Answer Key:
exterior: steep tiled roof/tall chimney pots/bаy windows/front porch / steps to the front door/brick walls/wooden
frames/E-shape
interior: lots of rooms / expensive furniture / large hall / dining room / bedrooms / four-poster beds/attic
special features: simple /plain / large detached houses /stained glass / terraced brick houses/small/toilet/manor
houses / spacious / comfortable

7. Speaking
Suggested Answer Key
Victorians had large, detached houses with many rooms and expensive furniture. On the outside, they had steep tiled roofs, tall chimney pots and large bay windows. Sometimes, they had front porches and steps up to the front door.
Elizabethan houses had brick walls with wooden frames. They had many comfortable rooms. The rooms had big furniture, and bedrooms sometimes had four-poster beds.

8*. Listening
There’s a very interesting idiom in connection with Elizabethan style in architecture.  It’s about cats and dogs. Can you guess which one?

«It’s raining cat’s and dogs» An interesting phrase, isn’t it?

The phrase isn’t related to the well-known antipathy between dogs and cats, which is exemplified in the phrase ‘fight like cat and dog’. Nor is the phrase in any sense literal, i.e. it doesn’t record an incident where cats and dogs fell from the sky. Small creatures, of the size of frogs or fish, do occasionally get carried skywards in freak weather. Such involuntary flight must also happen to dogs or cats from time to time, but there’s no record of the events causing this phrase to be coined. No English meteorological records inform about this.

It has been suggested that cats and dogs were washed from roofs during heavy weather. This is a widely repeated tale which became very popular with the e-mail message «Life in the 1500s», which began circulating on the Internet in 1999. Here’s the relevant part of that:

I’ll describe their houses a little. You’ve heard of thatch roofs (соломенная крыша), well that’s all they were. Thick straw, piled high, with no wood underneath. They were the only place for the little animals to get warm. So all the pets; dogs, cats and other small animals, mice, rats, bugs, all lived in the roof. When it rained it became slippery so sometimes the animals would slip and fall off the roof. Thus the saying, «it’s raining cats and dogs.»

Do you believe it?

This is nonsense of course.  In order to believe this tale we would have to accept that dogs lived in thatched roofs, which, of course, they didn’t. Even accepting that bizarre idea, for dogs to have slipped off when it rained they would have needed to be sitting on the outside of the thatch — hardly the place an animal would head for as shelter in bad weather.

(Adapted from: http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/raining%20cats%20and%20dogs.html)

PS: One supposed origin is that the phrase derives from mythology. Dogs and wolves were attendants to Odin, the god of storms, and sailors associated them with rain. Witches, who often took the form of their familiars — cats, are supposed to have ridden the wind. Well, some evidence would be nice. There doesn’t appear to be any to support this notion.

8. Test (reflection). Which houses represent Victorian and which Elizabethan architectural styles?

(pictures)

Использованные источники:

1) Upstream Elementary SB
2) http://www.phrases.org.uk
3) Pictures from the Internet