describing housesprint and the description of the Castle of Usher Family

a slideshow that describe types of houses and its main characteristics

1. a one –story house
a three –story house
a two-story house
brick -built
bright
Colonial
Furnished
huge
modest
noisy
Private∦residential
ruined
rumbling
spacious
Shabby
secure∦dangerous
Convenient
∦Inconvenient
Describinga house

2. ATMOSPHERE/ADJECTIVES
•PEACEFUL/QUIET: not busy, calm, free from activities
•ANCIENT: with a long history
•BEAUTIFUL: very pleasing on the eye
•CHARMING/PICTURESQUE : nice, very pleasant in a
unique way
•COSMOPOLITAN : with a varied mix of cultures and
languages
•BORING: dull, uninteresting
•COMPACT: not very big, within a small area
•NOISY: full of noise, busy
•STUNNING: very attractive, impressive, astonishing

3. ATMOSPHERE/ADJECTIVES
•LIVELY:with lots of things going on
•FASCINATING: very interesting
•HUGE: very big, enormous
•POLLUTED: dirty, contaminated
•TOURISTIC: visited by lots of tourists
•EXCITING: thrilling, with lots of enjoyable things to do
•POPULAR: liked by a lot of people
•CROWDED: very full of people
•CONTEMPORARY : modern, very up to date
•EXPENSIVE: costing a lot of money
•HISTORIC: with a lot of ancient buildings

4. Types of houses
DETACHED
HOUSE
SEMI-
DETACHED
HOUSES
TERRACED
HOUSES

5. Types of houses
LIGHTHOUSE
VILLA
BEAMED
HOUSE

6. Types of houses
BUNGALOW
COTTAGE
WINDMILL

7. Yourideal home
WHICH CITY/TOWN/VILLAGE IS IT?
WHERE IS IT?
WHAT IS THERE TO SEE AND DO?
WHAT IS THE CITY LIKE?
IT’S FAMOUS FOR…
WHY IS IT MEANINGFUL TO YOU?
HOW ARE THE PEOPLE?
WHAT’S THE WEATHER LIKE?
HOW IS THE FOOD?

8. USEFUL EXPRESSIONS
It offers…
Theviewsare … It’spossibleto…
•Youshouldn’tmiss … It’sgot...
•Theatmosphereis… Youcan see…
•It’slocatedin … It’scloseto…
•It’sfarawayfrom…
•WhatI don’tlikeaboutitis…
•Thegoodthingaboutthisplace is…

9. Ask yourpartner
Where do you live?
What’s your neighborhood like?
Do you prefer to live in the country or in the city?
Do you live in a house or in an apartment?
What is your house like?
How many rooms does it have?
Do you like it?
Is there any problem in the area you live in?
Have you ever visited the house where a famous
person was born or lived?

10. LOCATION
BY THE SEA
ON THE COAST
IN THE COUNTRY
IN THE NORTH/SOUTH/WEST /EAST OF
ON THE RIVER (NAME)
IN A VALLEY
ON A PLAIN
IN THE MOUNTAINS
NEAR A FOREST/DESERT

11. AREAS IN TOWN
Downtown: the central or lower part of a city, espthe
main commercial area
Outskirts: bordering areas or districts of a city
Suburbs: a residential district situated on the outskirts
of a city or town
Industrial zone: an area for the purpose of industrial
development
Residential area: suitable for residence

12. ACTIVITIES
•SPECTACULAR VIEWS
•GOOD SHOPS/TRANSPORT
•PRACTISE A SPORT: horse-riding, windsurfing, paragliding,
cycling, mountainbiking, snowboarding
•MEET PEOPLE
•WANDER ROUND THE TOWN/SHOPS
•GO FOR A BOAT RIDE ON THE LAKE/RIVER

13. Houseof Usher
•Summary and Analysis "The Fall of the House of Usher"
•Summary
•The first five paragraphs of the story are devoted to creating a
gothic mood —that is, the ancient decaying castle is eerie and
moldy and the surrounding moat seems stagnant. Immediately
Poe entraps us; we have a sense of being confined within the
boundaries of the House of Usher. Outside the castle, a storm is
raging and inside the castle, there are mysterious rooms where
windows suddenly whisk open, blowing out candles; one hears
creaking and moaning sounds and sees the living corpse of the
Lady Madeline. This, then, is the gothic and these are its
trappings; one should realize by now that these are all basic
effects that can be found in any modern Alfred Hitchcock-type
of horror film, any ghost movie, or in any of the many movies
about Count Dracula. Here is the genesis of this type of story,
created almost one hundred and fifty years ago in plain, no-
nonsense America, a new nation not even sixty years old.

14. Houseof Usher
•Besides having a fascination for the weird and the spectral, Poe
was also interested in the concept of the double, the
schizophrenic, the ironic, and the reverse. He investigated this
phenomenon in several stories, including "William Wilson" (a
story which is analyzed in this volume), and so it is important to
note that there is a special importance attached to the fact that
Roderick Usher and the Lady Madeline are twins. Poe is creating
in this story his conception of a special affinity between a
brother and his twin sister; it is almost as if Poe were "inventing"
ESP, for this accounts for the fact that Roderick Usher has heard
the buried Lady Madeline struggling with her coffin and her
chains for over three days before the narrator hears her.
Unfortunately, modern readers tend to be a little jaded by the
many gothic effects. ESP, for example, is rather old hat today as a
gothic device, but in Poe's time, it was as frightening and
mysterious as UFOs are today.

15. Houseof Usher
•"The Fall of the House of Usher" exemplifies perfectly Poe's
principle of composition that states that everything in the story
must contribute to a single unified effect. Late in the story,
Roderick Usher says: "I feel that the period will sooner or later
arrive when I must abandon life and reason together, in some
struggle with the grim phantasm, FEAR." Clearly, Poe has
chosen the "grim phantasm, FEAR" for his prime effect to be
achieved in this story. As a result, every word, every image, and
every description in the story is chosen with the central idea in
mind of creating a sense of abject terror and fear within both the
narrator and the reader. From the opening paragraphs, ominous
and foreboding as they are, to the presentation of the over-
sensitive, hopelessly frail and delicate Roderick Usher, to the
terrible conclusion with the appearance of the living corpse, all
of Poe's details combine to create the anxiety accompanying that
"grim phantasm, FEAR."

16. Houseof Usher
•Like so many of Poe's stories, the setting here is inside a closed
environment. From the time the unnamed narrator enters the House
of Usher until the end of the story when he flees in terror, the entire
story is boxed within the confines of the gloomy rooms on an
oppressive autumn day where every object and sound is attenuated to
the over-refined and over-developed sensitivities of Roderick Usher.
•In fact, the greatness of this story lies more in the unity of design and
the unity of atmosphere than it does in the plot itself. In terms of what
plot there is, it is set somewhere in the past, and we find out that the
narrator and Roderick Usher have been friends and schoolmates
previous to the story's beginning. At least Usher considers the narrator
to be his friend —in fact, his only friend —and he has written an
urgent letter to him, imploring him to come to the Usher manor "post-
haste." As the narrator approaches the melancholy House of Usher, it
is evening time and a "sense of insufferable gloom pervades" his spirit.
This is the first effect Poe creates, this "sense of insufferable gloom."
There are no gothic stories or ghost stories which take place in daylight
or at high noon; these types of stories must occur in either

17. Houseof Usher
•darkness or in semi-darkness, and thus the narrator arrives at this dark
and cryptic manor just as darkness is about to enshroud it. The house,
the barren landscape, the bleak walls, the rank sedges in the moat —
all these create a "sickening of the heart —an unredeemed
dreariness." This is a tone which will become the mood throughout
the entire story.
•Poe next sets up a sense of the "double" or the ironic reversal when he
has the narrator first see the House of Usher as it is reflected in the
"black and lurid tarn" (a dark and gruesome, revolting mountain lake)
which surrounds it. The image of the house, you should note, is
upside down. At the end of the story, the House of Usher will literally
fall into this tarn and be swallowed up by it. And even though Poe said
in his critical theories that he shunned symbolism, he was not above
using it if such symbolism contributed to his effect. Here, the effect is
electric with mystery; he says twice that the windows of the house are
"eyelike" and that the inside of the house has become a living "body"
while the outside has become covered with moss and is decaying
rapidly.

19. A COASTAL CITY

20. A MOUNTAINOUS PLACE

21. A BIG CITY

22. A POLLUTED CITY

23. A CROWDED STREET

24. A CONTEMPORARY CITY