Pro ce d u re o f th e les so n : Lesson 4. Uzbek houses
Vocabulary:
yurt
[jɜːt ], [juət]-o’tov
brick
[brɪk]-g’isht
mud
[mʌd]-loy
felt
[felt]-kigiz
wool[wul]-jun
stone-tosh
1a Look and match. 1 yurt 2 brick 3 mud 4 felt 5 wool 6 stone
1b Listen and repeat. 1c Work in pairs. Point and say. A: (points)
B: a mud house
2 Answer the questions. 1
What kind of houses do you know?
2
In which countries do people live in yurts?
3
What kind of house/flat do you live in?
3 Copy. Read and complete. There are a lot of different homes in Uzbekistan. In cities people often live in flats. But in villages people usually live in houses.
In Karakalpakstan some people live in yurts. They use sheep wool to make felt for yurts. Yurts are cool in summer and warm in winter.
They can be very beautiful. Yurts have one room. This room is the kitchen, dining room and bedroom. One camel* can take a yurt
from one place to a new place. In the Hisor mountains a lot of houses are stone. Usually they have one storey. Stone houses have three
or four rooms: a living room and two or three bedrooms. The kitchen is in the yard. These houses are very strong. They have coal
fires* in winter.
A lot of people in Uzbekistan have mud houses. Mud houses usually have one storey. They have three or four rooms. The kitchen is in
the yard. Mud houses are cool in summer and warm in winter. It is easy to make a mud house. Some houses are brick. They are very
strong. They can be small or big with a lot of rooms. What about your house? What is it like?