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7 There's No Place Like Home 10 Writing A. Look at the photos. Where do you think these houses are? What are they made of? 1. Read the text and find out. . • • What is adobe? What is special about the house? Are the back and front of the house similar? How do you know? What is part of the floor made of? Why? 2. Read the text again, find out, and highlight. . • Which rooms does the writer mention? What can the writer see, smell, and feel in the house? 3. Would you want to live in a house with a glass floor? Why? Why not? www رابط الدرس الرقمي www.ien.edu.sa A home over the canyon 7217 When people talk about unusual homes, I think of our friends' dream home in New Mexico, on which they spent all their savings building it. On the outside, the house looks like most adobe homes in the area. Adobe is made from sand, clay, water, and organic material that are shaped into bricks and left to dry in the sun. Our friends' house is a beautifully-designed, large adobe home with a drive and a large cactus tree near the entrance. It has soft lines, and is less angular than conventional urban homes. When you go through the door, you find yourself in a beautiful, spacious room with large windows and sunlight streaming in. Large windows are unusual for adobe homes. But this is no ordinary home. Part of the house juts out of the adobe shell that can be seen Pfrom the street and stretches to the end of a cliff. You Ministry of Education 2024 -1086 walk past a kitchen fitted with a cast-iron stove and hand-made wooden cabinets that give off the most enticing smells of cumin and chilies and herbs. It is so real; you can almost taste the food. The spacious room that you step into when you enter the house stretches in all directions. You walk towards the sitting area. When you get closer, you need to brace yourself as the most spectacular view imaginable unfolds before your eyes. All of a sudden, you are no longer stepping on wood, the floor is hard, and your footsteps make a strange resounding sound. You look down and wonder whether you have been transported in space and time; you are looking into the gaping canyon. You think you are falling into it; you can almost feel the air whooshing past. Part of the floor is made of thick custom-designed glass. You might like it or hate it, but however you feel you have to admit it is unique. This is the way I feel about this house and the day I spent there. It was a unique, unforgettable experience even if I wouldn't choose to live with a glass floor over a canyon for the rest of my life. Would you? MG_02_COMBO_TEXT_2024.indb 108 30/4/24 2:31 AM

Look at the photos. Where do you think these houses are? What are they made of? Read the text and find out. What is adobe?

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B. 1. Choose a home to write about. It can be yours or another home you know well. 2. Remember/think about what you see, hear, feel, and smell in various rooms of the house. 3. Make notes in the chart and use them to write a descriptive essay about the house. Rooms and other places I can feel and/ I can see I can hear I can smell or touch Exterior Garden Living room Dining room Kitchen Study/den Writing Corner My Grandparents' House it The home that means the most to me is my grandparents' house. Each time I go there, I feel a sense of comfort and warmth. Now that I'm in college, I don't get to spend much time there. But whenever I miss it, I just imagine When first walk into my grandparents' house... you When you write a descriptive essay: · • • brainstorm about the topic and write down as many notes as you can about your memories and impressions of the house/place. make an outline of your essay and decide what each paragraph/section is going to focus on. include factual information, e.g. size, number of rooms, etc. as well as feelings/impressions. visualize the place you want to write about so you can help your reader visualize it too. use different senses, i.e. sight, feelings, smell, sound, and taste to make it more vivid. remember that smell is usually the most vivid and best retained memory. pylcölläjljġ think of the first and last thing(s) you see, hear, feel, or smell (or almost taste) when you are there. Ministry of Education 2024-1446 MG_02_COMBO_TEXT_2024.indb 109 109 30/4/24 2:31 AM

Choose a home to write about It can be yours or another home you know well