A List of Suggested Vocabulary List

• fibro - волокно, фібра; нитка
• veneer - одношарова фанера, цегельне облицювання; лицювальні плити; захисне покриття
• louvres - жалюзі
• master bedroom - спальня
• aperture - отвір; шпара, щілина

Ways of Connecting Ideas

• Simple Sentences (a subject+ verb, etc)

 - expresses a single, simple idea
e.g.: The door opens. The woman enters.

• Coordination

 - the easiest way of connecting ideas
 - linking independent clauses with conjunctions. This forms 'compound sentences'
 - taking two simple sentences and linking them with a 'conjunction' (and, but, yet, or, for, so) or linking word
e.g.: The door opens and the woman enters.

independent clause + conjunctions + independent clause = compound sentences

• Subordination

 - linking an independent clause with a dependent clause to make a complex sentence

independent clause + dependent clause = complex sentence

Dependent clauses cannot exist separately in seperate sentences. They need or depend on each other.

 - use relative pronouns (who, whose, which, where)
 - use conjunctions (because, whereas)

Focus of the Vocabulary Topic

Well, we completed it about 2 years ago, and, I guess, one of the intersting things about it is that it's a fibro house and most houses, I guess, these days are brick veneer, whereas this is fibro on the outside, timber on the outside, but there's bricks on the inside. Well, I guess, the very high windows along the north side going down to the lower ceiling hight on the south basically allows you to get a lot of sun in through these windows in winter, and the louvres, which go out, actually go to a point where the sun can be shaded completely in summer, but they can be opened to let the sun right back into the house through winter. This house catually has 2 north faces, There's the north face of all the living rooms, 3 actually, and then the master bedroom has a north face and the other bedrooms also have a north face. So, it's trying to maximise what we call the aperture of the house, which is how much sun you get in winter.