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Unit 4. Netsearch

PostPosted: Sat Jun 27, 2009 7:00 pm
by sribasa
The typical house in the prairie of Tibet is a tent made of yak skin. They also have stone houses where they store yak excrements because they use them as fuel for cooking.

We can find houses made of straw and wood in Jamaica, which only need two weeks to build them. Houses made of stone are also often used in building. They look like British houses, since their influence were strong.

Houses in Australia have a wood framework and external layer of brick. They have a steep tin roof and a veranda around it and usually have two floors. Those houses are similar to american houses because many North-americans migrated to Australia.

Redcliffe is a residential suburb of Redcliffe peninsule, very close of Queensland, in Australia. Redcliffe is a popular holiday resort for residents of a close towns with sandy beaches and many hotels.

There are many places were people still live in caves. I know a place in Granada’s suburb where gipsies have set their home. The caves have been remodelled as real houses, but under the ground. Many Chinese still live in caves and also some Turkish live in the caves that their ancestors made.

Silvia Riba Sánchez
sribasa