This document discusses housing styles around the world and how they are adapted to different environments and available resources. It provides examples of houses made from materials like mud, reeds, snow, and describes why certain styles developed. For instance, it notes that Swiss chalets have large roofs to protect against heavy snowfall in winter. Mud huts can still be seen in parts of Africa as they are inexpensive and cool. Some people live in tents because they are nomadic and need to relocate frequently.

1. Juan Carlos Guevara

2. The world is full of houses. Big houses and little
houses. Houses that stay in one place and houses
that move from place to place. Some houses are
made of mud or straw. But all of them are made for
families to live in. This topic describes how people
around the world have built houses adapted to their
particular life style, climate and available building
materials.

3. What are houses
made from?
All over the world
people make use of
whatever materials
they can find or
produce to build
homes. Many
modern buildings
look much the same
wherever they have
been built. However,
all sorts of local types
of houses can still be
seen as well.

4. Why do chalets
have big roofs?
In the mountains of
Switzerland, the wooden
houses have broad roofs,
designed for heavy falls of
snow each winter.
Commonly chalets have
three floors and each
floor serves a specific
function according to the
season of the year in
which this. It is a
proprietary feature of
Swiss chalets.

5. Why build houses
with reeds?
It makes sense to use
the nearest building
material to hand. Tall
reeds grow around
Lake Titicaca in Peru,
so the Indians who
live there use them
to build their
beautiful houses.

6. What are houses
like in the Artic?
Today the inuit
people of Canada live
in houses, huts and
tents. Traditionally,
they lived in igloos
made out of blocks of
snow. Igloos are still
used today by Inuits
on the move.

7. Where do they build
mud huts?
Thatched huts with
walls of dried mud
can still be seen in
parts of Africa, such
as Mali. They are
cheap to build, cool
to live in, and often
look beautiful too.

8. Why do people live
in tents?
In different countries
there are people who
don’t live in the same
place. Such people
are called nomads.
For example, the
Beduin are nomads
who live in the dry
lands of North Africa.
Today some Bedouin
have settle in towns.

9. Which people live in
caravans?
The Gypsies, who are
properly known as
Roma, Sinti, or
Manush, arrived in
Europe from India
about 500 years ago.

10. Why do people live
underground?
At Coober Pedy in
Australia it is so hot
that miners digging
for opals built houses
and even a church
underground.

11. Why were
skyscrapers
invented?
Skyscrapers were first
built in Chicago about
120 years ago. By
1857 new lifts were
saving people a very
long climb
upstairs.Skyscrapers
were invented to
make better use of
space.

12. VOCABULARY
 Shelter: Something that provides cover or protection, as
from the weather. A refuge; a haven. An establishment
that provides temporary housing for homeless people.
 Reed: Any of various tall perennial grasses, especially of
the genera Phragmites or Arundo, having allow stems,
broad leaves, and large plumelike terminal panicles.
 Tent: A portable shelter, as of canvas, stretched over a
supporting framework of poles with ropes and pegs.

13. VOCABULARY
 Caravan: A company of travelers journeying together, as
across a desert or through hostile territory.
 Skyscrapers: A very tall bulding.
 Hut: A small or humble dwelling of simple construction,
especially one made of natural materials, as of logsor
grass.
 Mud: Wet, soft earth or earthy matter, as on the ground
after rain, at the bottom of a pond, or along the banks of
a river.
 Thatch: Plant stalks or foliage, such as reeds or palm
fronds, used for roofing.

14. QUESTIONARY

15. Why do people live underground?
 a.To avoid the wind.
 b.To avoid dust.
 c.To avoid the heat.
d.To keep cool.

16. Why do people live in tents?
 a.Because it is easy to assemble.
 b.Because it is lightweight.
 c.By protecting the rain.
d.Because they are nomadic and constantly need to
relocate.

17. Why were skyscrapers invented?
 a.To get a better picture.
 b.To improve the image of cities.
c.For a better use of space.
 d.For the construction of a greater number of offices.

18. Where mud huts are built?
 a.In South America, due to the poverty of these countries.
b.In Africa, in places like Mali, because it is cheap and
they often look beautiful.
 c.In northern Africa because they are very easy to make.
 d.In deserts where it is easy to find mud.

19. Why do chalets have big roofs?
 a.To keep the heat in the house.
 b.To protect people from wild animals.
c.To protect people from big snow falls in winter.
 d.To keep snow outside the house and keep warm.

20. THANKS