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Unit 5 Residential Real Estate (I)

The legal arrangement for the right to occupy a dwelling is known as the housing tenure. Types of housing tenure include owner occupancy, tenancy, housing cooperative, condominiums (individually parcelled properties in a single building), public housing, and squatting. Variants include timeshares and co-housing. Residences can be classified by if and how they are connected to neighbouring residences and land. Different types of housing tenure can be used for the same physical type. For example, connected residences might be owned by a single entity and leased out, or owned separately with an agreement covering the relationship between units and common areas and concerns. Major physical categories in North America and Europe include: - Attached / multi-unit dwellings : apartment (flat outside North America), often seen in multi-story apartment buildings, an individual unit in a multi-unit building, the boundaries of whom are generally defined by a perimeter of locked or lockable doors; multi-family house, often seen in multi-story detached buildings, where each floor is a separate apartment or unit; terraced house (a.k.a. townhouse or row-house), a number of single or multi-unit buildings in a continuous row with shared walls and no intervening space; condominium, a building or complex, similar to apartments, owned by individuals, while common grounds are owned and shared jointly (there are townhouse or row-house style condominiums as well). - Semi-detached dwellings; duplex, two units with one shared wall. - Single-family detached home. - Portable dwellings: mobile homes, potentially a full-time residence which can be (might not in practice be) movable on wheels; houseboats, a floating home; tents, usually very temporary, with roof and walls consisting only of fabric-like material. (After Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia)
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Vocabulary
apartment building = bloc / cldire cu / de apartamente attached / multi-unit dwellings = grup de mai multe locuine aflate, de obicei, sub acelai acoperi boundary = despritur, grani, limit co-housing = comunitate de locuine n care buctria i alte faciliti sunt comune condominium = condominium, stpnire asociat / mixt duplex = duplex, apartament pe dou etaje dwelling = locuin fabric-like material = material textil floating home = cas plutitoare floor = etaj houseboat = cas (ntr-o ambarcaiune) pe ap housing cooperative = companie care deine locuine; cldiri rezideniale housing tenure = aranjament financiar care i permite cuiva s locuiasc ntr-un apartament sau o cas lease out (v.) = a da cu chirie, a nchiria lockable = care poate fi ncuiat() locked = ncuiat() mobile home = cas / locuin mobil multi-family house = cldire n care fiecare familie ocup un etaj multi-story = cu mai multe etaje neighbouring = nvecinat() on wheels = pe roi owner occupancy = locuin proprietate personal portable dwelling = locuin portabil public housing = locuin de stat semi-detached dwelling = locuin semi-detaat shared = mprit(), n comun single-family detached home = cas individual pentru o singur familie squatting = instalarea ilegal ntr-o cas tenancy = chirie tent = cort terraced house = cas cu teras la parter timeshare = locuin n comun, de obicei n staiuni de vacan
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Exercises
1. Answer the questions. What do you understand by housing tenure? What types of housing tenure are there? What is owner occupancy? What is tenancy? What is housing cooperative? What is a condominium? What do you understand by public housing? What is squatting? What is a timeshare? What do you understand by co-housing? How can residences be classified? What do major physical categories of housing tenure include? What is an apartment? What is an apartment building? What is a multi-family house? What is a terraced house? What is a duplex? What is a single-family detached house? What is a houseboat? What is a tent?

2. Match the following. 1. co-housing 2. housing 3. occupancy 4. squatting 5. tenancy a. a kind of intentional community composed of private homes with full kitchens, supplemented by extensive common facilities b. buildings or other shelters in which people live c. possession or occupancy of lands, buildings, or other property by title, under a lease, or on payment of rent d. the act of occupying or the condition of being occupied; the state of being an occupant or a tenant e. the act of settling on unoccupied land without legal claim
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3. Group the following words referring to a neighbour (someone who lives nearby) as in the model. apartment complex be neighbours community compound district environs good neighbour housing development live in the same neighbourhood live near each other live nearby live next to each other live on the same street neighbourhood neighbourly neighbour next door neighbour our area our street subdivision vicinity
Words referring to a good neighbour someone who lives nearby the area around your house the fact that someone lives nearby

environs 4. Make a description of your flat / house using some of the words above. 5. Fill in with the Past Participles below. combined drawn found known (2 times) made termed used (3 times) An apartment building, block of flats or tenement, is a multi-unit dwelling up of several (generally four or more) apartments (US), or flats (UK). A difference may be such as in San Francisco, California between an apartment and a flat, where an apartment is one of many units on a floor and a flat is the only unit on a given floor. Where the building is a high-rise construction, it is a tower block in the UK and elsewhere. The term apartment building is regardless of height in the US. A two-unit dwelling is as a duplex (US) or maisonette (UK); a three-unit dwelling is as a triplex, in Chicago as a three-flat, or in Boston as a three-decker or a triple-decker. Beyond this, cardinal numbers are (e.g., fourplex, fiveplex) in the US, and the term multiplex is also . Tenement law refers to the feudal basis of permanent property such as land or rents. May be as in Messuage or Tenement to encompass all the land, buildings and other assets of a property.
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6. Group the following pronouns according to the model. he her hers herself him himself his I it it its itself me mine myself our ours ourselves she theirs them themselves they us we you yours yourself
Subject Object Possessive Reflexive

he

him

his

himself

7. Put the verbs between brackets in the Simple Past, Past Perfect or Past Perfect Continuous. How long (he, work) on his sculpture when he finally (finish) it? For at least one year. How long (your father, smoke) when he (decide) to quit smoking? For more than twenty years. Betty was reading when her parents (come) home from work. Bill (wait) for his girlfriend for half an hour when she finally (show up) By the time Mrs. Adams (reach) the store, she (forget) what she wanted to buy. By the time Mrs. Dobbs (retire), she (work) for 35 years. By the time we (get) to the movie theatre, the movie (already, begin). First the weather (be) fine. Later it (start) to rain. Then we ... (decide) to go back home. I (see) Karen yesterday. She (tell) me she (just, come) back from her vacation. Rita (design) herself a summer dress yesterday. She (never, design) clothes for herself before. She (read) for two hours. She (read) fifty pages. The ground (be) wet because it (rain) for several hours. The party was a great success. Cathy (feel) happier than she (ever, feel) before.

8. Fill in the blanks with the right preposition after each adjective. Be very careful what you say to her.
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He always tries to be polite his teachers. He told me he was angry you. He took a job because he no longer wanted to be dependent his parents. Im proud your success. Mary is very fond children. She has never been successful anything she has done. She is quite different her husband. The new teacher is very patient children. We have all the equipment necessary our experiment. What are you afraid ? Why do you feel inferior your schoolmates?

9. Match the sentences on the left with the Past Participles required by the causative have structure on the right. 1. Mary had her hair 2. We are having our roof 3. John has had his car 4. Susan has had her tooth 5. Bill had an X- ray 6. Im having my blue suit 7. The Smiths have had their bedroom 8. We had our dog 9. Wendy had her computer 10. He has had his shoes a. capped b. cut c. dry- cleaned d. redecorated e. re-soled f. re-tiled g. serviced h. spayed i. taken j. upgraded

Lets Laugh!
A New York City yuppie moved to the country and bought a piece of land. He went to the local feed and livestock store and talked to the proprietor about how he was going to take up chicken farming. He then asked to buy 100 chicks. Thats a lot of chicks, commented the proprietor. I mean business, the city slicker replied. A week later the yuppie was back again. I need another 100 chicks, he said. Boy, you are serious about this chicken farming, the man told him. Yeah, the yuppie replied. If I can iron out a few problems. Problems?

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asked the proprietor. Yeah, replied the yuppie, I think I planted that last batch too close together.

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