Chapter II

Focus On Reading

TYPE OF HOUSE
A building or edifice is a structure with a roof and walls standing
more or less permanently in one place, such as a house or factory. Buildings
come in a variety of sizes, shapes and functions, and have been adapted
throughout history for a wide number of factors, from building materials
available, to weather conditions, to land prices, ground conditions, specific
uses and aesthetic reasons. To better understand the term building compare
the list of nonbuilding structures.
Buildings serve several needs of society – primarily as shelter from
weather, security, living space, privacy, to store belongings, and to
comfortably live and work. A building as a shelter represents a physical
division of the human habitat (a place of comfort and safety) and the
outside (a place that at times may be harsh and harmful).
Ever since the first cave paintings, buildings have also become
objects or canvasses of much artistic expression. In recent years, interest in
sustainable planning and building practices has also become an intentional
part of the design process of many new buildings.
Single-family residential buildings are most often called houses or
homes. Residential buildings containing more than one dwelling unit are
called a duplex, apartment building to differentiate them from 'individual'
houses. A condominium is an apartment that the occupant owns rather than
rents. Houses may also be built in pairs (semi-detached), in terraces where
all but two of the houses have others either side; apartments may be built
round courtyards or as rectangular blocks surrounded by a piece of ground
of varying sizes. Houses which were built as a single dwelling may later be
divided into apartments or bedsitters; they may also be converted to
another use e.g. an office or a shop.
Building types may range from huts to multi-million dollar high-rise
apartment blocks able to house thousands of people. Increasing settlement
density in buildings (and smaller distances between buildings) is usually a
response to high ground prices resulting from many people wanting to live
 Building types may range from huts to multi-million dollar high-rise
apartment blocks able to house thousands of people. Increasing settlement
density in buildings (and smaller distances between buildings) is usually a
response to high ground prices resulting from many people wanting to live
close to work or similar attractors. Other common building materials are
brick, concrete or combinations of either of these with stone.
Residential buildings have different names for their use depending if
they are seasonal include holiday cottage (vacation home) or timeshare; size
such as a cottage or great house; value such as a shack or mansion; manner of
construction such as a log home or mobile home; proximity to the ground
such as earth sheltered house, stilt house, or tree house. Also if the residents
are in need of special care such as a nursing home, orphanage or prison; or in
group housing like barracks or dormitories

1. Type of House
a. Apartment building,
b. House,
c. Duplex/two-family house
d. Townhouse/townhome,
e. Condominium/condo,
f. Dormitory/dorm
g. Mobile home,
h. Nursing home,
i. Shelter
j. Farm
K. ranch
l. Houseboat
m. The city
n. Thesuburbs
o. The country
p. A town/village
 - Apartment: a place to live that is part of a larger building, owned by a
landlord who collects monthly rent. They will rent an apartment until they
have enough money to buy a house.
- Cabin: A small, roughly built house
 The family likes to stay in a cabin in the mountains in the summer. A
bedroom on a ship
 The cabins on the ship are quite small. An inside area of an airplane
 Those airplanes have a very large passenger cabin.
- Condominium: a building or group of buildings whose apartments are
individually owned
 They are building a new condominium near here. An apartment in a
condominium
 As soon as he graduated he bought a condominium in the city.
- Cottage: a small house of one story
 His family has a cottage at the beach, where they go every summer.
- House: a building designed as a place to live
 They are expecting a baby and want to move to a bigger house.
- Hut: a small shelter, with no amenities
 The children made a hut in the woods.
- Mansion: a large house
 The mayor’s official residence is a beautiful mansion.
- Rambler: a house, bigger than a cottage, that has a number of rooms that
are all on one floor.
 They are looking for a rambler, because her mother can’t climb steps.
- Townhouse: a house built in a row of houses, with side walls connected
 Townhouses usually have a lot of steps
VOCABULARY

VOCABULARY PRONOUNCIATION MEANING

Building /bɪld/ Membangun
Comfortable /’kʌmftәbl/ Nyaman
Cave /keIV/ Gua
Permanent /’pз:mәnәnt/ tetap
Function /fʌŋkʃn/ fungsi
Privacy /prIVәsi/ pribadi
Type /taIp/ jenis
Weather /’weðә(r)/ cuaca

Conditions /kәn’dIʃn/ kondisi

Exercise
1. What is building ?
2. What is the function building house ?
3. What is the different single family resedential building and general
building ?
4. how cozy atmosphere of the building? in your opinion
5. What to consider when building a building?
Define the correct sentence best on the text by scratch true or false !

1. apartment: a place to live that is part of a larger building, owned by a

landlord who collects monthly rent (T/F)
2. Single-family residential buildings are most often called apartment (T/F)
3. A building or edifice is a structure with a roof and walls standing more or less
permanently in one place, such as a house or factory (T/F)
4. Condominium a house, bigger than a cottage, that has a number of rooms
that are all on one floor (T/F)
5. Buildings serve several needs of society – primarily as shelter from weather,
security, living space, privacy, to store belongings, and to comfortably live and
work (T/F)
CHOOSE THE CORRECT ANSWER
1. Single-family residential buildings are most often called . . .
a. Apartment
b. House
c. Mansion
2. Ever since the first cave paintings, buildings have also become . . . of much
artistic expression
a. Objects or canvasses
b. Miniature
c. House
3. Type of house there are . . .
a. 12
b. 18
c. 16
4. Buildings serve several needs of society – primarily as shelter from . . .
a. Weather
b. Land
c. Sand
5. Rambler a house, bigger than a cottage, that has a number of rooms that
are all on . . . floor
a. Two
b. One
c. three
 FOCUS ON STRUCTURE

PAST TENSE

The past tense is used to talk about a completed action in a time before
now. Duration is not important. The time of the action can be in the recent past or
the distant past.

You always use the past tense when you say when something happened, so
it is associated with certain past time expressions

 Frequency: often, sometimes, always

I sometimes walked home at lunchtime.

I often brought my lunch to school.

 A definite point in time: last week, when I was a child, yesterday, six
weeks ago

We saw a good house last week.

Yesterday, I arrived in Geneva.

She finished her work at seven o'clock

I went to the apartment last night

 An indefinite point in time: the other day, ages ago, a long time ago

People lived in caves a long time ago.

 She made a toy house when she was a child.

Note: the word ago is a useful way of expressing the distance into the past. It is
placed after the period of time: a week ago, three years ago, a minute ago.

Form Formula Example of sentence

+ Verbal S + Verb-2 He made a mansion yesterday
Nominal S + was/were + nominal I was there but you did not see me
– Verbal S + did + not + Infinitive She did not know where to go.
Nominal S + was/were + not + nominal When I was a child, I used to cry.
? Verbal Did + S + Infinitive Did you take my cabin?
Nominal Was/were + S + nominal? Was the case hard to solve?
Forming the Simple Past Tense

Patterns of simple past tense for regular verbs

Affirmative

Subject + verb + ed

I skipped.

Negative

Subject + did not + infinitive without to

They didn't go.

Interrogative

Did + subject + infinitive without to

Did she arrive?

Interrogative negative

Did not + subject + infinitive without to

Didn't you play?

To Walk
Affirmative Negative Interrogative

I walked I didn't walk Did I walk?

You walked You didn't walk Did you walk?

He walked He didn't walk Did he walk?

We walked We didn't walk Did we walk?

They walked They didn't walk Did they walk?

Simple past tense of to be, to have, to do

Subject Verb

Be Have Do

I was had did

You were had did

He/She/It was had did

We were had did

You were had did

They were had did

http://www.ef.com/english-resources/english-grammar/simple-past-tense/
A. Make sentences based on the words below !
Home – Build – Apartement – Service – Village – Single Family – Wheather –
Security – Live - Comfortable
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.

Choose the correct answer

1. My family . . . me alone in my house yesterday
a. left
b. Leave
c. leaves
2. I would help you if I . . . much spare time
a. Have
b. Has
c. Had
3. There . . . a large house here
a. Is
b. Are
c. Was
4. I . . . not expect my cabin broke
a. Do
b. Does
c. Did
5. . . . you so tired last morning that you stopped made my house ?
a. Was
b. Were
c. Are
 Focus on speaking

Expressing Thanking
We thank to each other because other people have do everything that can
lift our burden.
A. Expressing Thanking
- Thank you.
- Thank you very much.
- Thank you for your kindness.
- Thanks.
- Thanks for everything.
- Thanks for your help.
- Many thanks.
- I thank you.
- Thanks a lot.
- I'm very much obliged to you.

B. Showing thanking when refusing

- No, thank you
- No, thanks
- Thanks anyway

Read more: http://www.kursusmudahbahasainggris.com/2015/02/penjelasan-

apologizing-dan-thanking.html#ixzz4QG5cDIZB

Dialogue
Sellers and buyers of the house
Sellers and buyers to the location where the housing that would be purchased
by the mother who was just behind the marketing office. Buyers have a look a residential
neighborhood and the seller describes the facilities and location of whatever is inside the
housing complex.
Buyers : This wahh sports fields huh?
Seller : true mrs, the housing complex we provide land as the center for play and
exercise so no need to go far away to a gym or yoga center and so on.
Buyer : there is a gym and yoga ???? Wahhhhh, very exciting.
Seller : not only that, the next there is no playground, no waterboom and the
swimming pool. Just to eliminate fatigue after a tired work.
Buyer : wahh, I really like. I had to admit. It's really beautiful.
Seller : (smiled)
Seller : Mrs, we have to. This complex dream home type 1
Buyers : Not fixed and yes, I still want to see the complex when. Waahh amazing, really
beautiful. Can we get ??
Seller : Certainly please. This is the ground floor, with two main rooms. On the second
floor there are two more rooms with sauna room.
Buyer : Look around
Seller : Explain every detail properties that are in the house.
Buyer : Mrs. Sarah me steady okay to buy a house of this type one.
Seller : (a friendly smile), let Mrs, they want to see? If not, we go back to the office to
take care of the administration of the payment.
Buyer : okay, I can not wait to have it.
Seller : (a friendly smile) let Mrs.
Buyer : oh yes, let's.
Sellers and buyers finally to the office and administer payments
Seller: Mrs. congratulations, you have find dream your home . Thank you.
Buyer: yes thank Ms. Sarah. Excuse me.
Seller: (a friendly smile) yes Mrs, good morning.
http://www.kelasindonesia.com/2015/05/contoh-percakapan-antara-penjual-
dan-pembeli-lengkap.html
Exercise
Make the conversation !
1. Asking a house sketch to the architecture

2. Homeowners conversation with the foreman

3. Buyers are not interested offers from sellers

 FOCUS ON WRITING

Description Text - Descriptive text is a text which says what a person or a

thing is like. Its purpose is to describe and reveal a particular person, place, or
thing

The Generic Structure of Descriptive Text

Descriptive text has structure as below:

 Identification; identifying the phenomenon to be described.

 Description; describing the phenomenon in parts, qualities, or/and
characteristics.

The Language Feature of Descriptive Text

 Using attributive and identifying process.

 Using adjective and classifiers in nominal group.
 Using simple present tense

Example of Description Text

Borobudur Temple

Borobudur is Hindu – Budhist temple. It was build in the nineth century under
Sailendra dynasty of ancient Mataram kingdom. Borobudur is located in Magelang,
Central Java, Indonesia.
Borobudur is well-known all over the world. Its construction is influenced by
the Gupta architecture of India. The temple is constructed on a hill 46 m high and consist
of eight step like stone terrace. The first five terrace are square and surrounded by walls
adorned with Budist sculpture in bas-relief. The upper three are circular. Each of them is
with a circle of bell shape-stupa. The entire adifice is crowned by a large stupa at the
centre at the centre of the top circle. The way to the summit extends through some 4.8
km of passage and starways. The design of borobudur which symbolizes the structure of
universe influences temples at Angkor, Cambodia.

Borobudur temple which is rededicated as an Indonesian monument in 1983 is a

valuable treasure for Indonesian people.

http://www.mydefinition.tk/2016/01/definition-purposes-generic-structures_22.html

Exercise 1
1. Please specify the general structure of the text above
2. Make the descriptive text with the theme of the types of home
 FOCUS ON LISTENING

LISTEN ON THE TAPE

TYPE OF HOUSE
A building or edifice is a structure with a roof and walls standing more
or less permanently in one place, such as a house or factory. Buildings come
in a variety of sizes, shapes and functions, and have been adapted
throughout history for a wide number of factors, from building materials
available, to weather conditions, to land prices, ground conditions, specific
uses and aesthetic reasons. To better understand the term building compare
the list of non building structures.
I. Listen on the tape and answer the questions below
correctly !
1.
a. b. C.

2. a. Small b. Tall c. Very little

3. a. Beautiful b. Cheap c. Expensive
4. a. b. C.

5. a. comfortable b. Hot c. Busy