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Vocabulary: having a house built - English lesson

My aim isn't, obviously, to make building experts of you, or even to give you too much technical vocabulary... I've simply noticed that usual words were sometimes misunderstood in texts, or in conversations, and that several of them were linked to this theme.

To have a house built

To have a house built	the foundations
The front of a house	a wall
The porch	a door
The front/ back door	in the doorway
A door frame	the doorstep/ the threshold

A porch The doorstep

A pane	a window-sill a window -ledge
a sash window	a picture window
a bow/ bay window	a basement window
a fanlight/ transom (US)	a skylight
a French window	a balcony
a veranda / a stoop	steps

A sash window A skylight A French window

A roof	A beam
The framework	A chimney (pot)
A gable	A gutter

A gutter House with several gables

The stairs/ staircase	The stairwell/ stairway
A step	The landing
The ground floor (GB) The first floor (US)	The first floor (GB) The second floor (US)
The second floor (GB) The third floor (US)	A floor A story (GB)/ Storey (US)
On that floor	A two-story house
Upstairs	Downstairs

Upstairs ... Downstairs... A landing

There you are. You should be OK, now! Let's see the test!

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