Today we’ll learn some vocabulary related to types of homes.
We just bought a duplex penthouse near the beach. It wasn’t cheap. But now we can’t decide who’s gonna live on which floor.
When I was a student, I was living in a small studio apartment on the second floor of a tenement house.
The apartment in the duplex was much cheaper, but the neighbors were famous criminals, so we decided to move to a row house in another part of the city.
I still don’t know why, but my parents decided to spend the summers in our big country house and the winters in a cabin which was in the middle of nowhere. As far as I know the cabin was used as a hunting lodge during the summer.
He felt very lonely in his big mansion, so he sold it and bought an apartment in a high rise in the city center.
Here’s the vocabulary summary:
| duplex | 1) an apartment with two floors 2) a building that is divided into two separate homes |
| penthouse | an apartment on the top floor or roof of a building |
| studio apartment / studio | a small apartment that has a main room, a very small kitchen, and a bathroom |
| tenement (house) | a large building that has apartments or rooms for rent and that is usually in a poorer part of a city |
| row house | a house in a row of houses that shares a wall with the houses next to it |
| country house | a large house in the country typically owned by someone who also has a home in a city |
| cabin | a small, simple house made of wood |
| hunting lodge | a house in the country or mountains for people who go hunting |
| mansion | a large and impressive house |
| high rise | a very tall building |
