House and home in Great Britain and in our country and personal characteristics

What does a typical English home look like? Compare it with a Czech house or flat

Would you like to have a house of your own?

My family, appearance and personal qualities of its members, my future career and plans

Britain and Czech houses

People in Britain prefer houses to flats, because of privacy and independence which they love. There are about 60 per cent of houses owned by people who live in them .There are some houses you can buy, for example detached and semidetached house, bungalow, terraced house or a flat.

Typical English detached houses are standing themselves. It has a front and also the back garden and house has usually two floors. This type of house is called detached house. There is hall with stairs to the upper floor. On the ground floor is often large kitchen with typical fireplace and dining area, living room, cloakroom and the toilet. On the upper floor you can see several bedrooms with bathrooms. Houses have usually from four to six rooms. Semidetached houses are joined two detached houses joined as a mirror picture. Interior is similar to detached houses there. These types of houses usually stand on suburbs of towns.

Terraced houses are a long line of houses, which were originally built in 19^th century for factory workers. They were rebuilt later for common people. This house has also usually two floors. Downstairs is kitchen and living room and upstairs there are usually two bedrooms. This type is smaller than detached house.

In Britain there is also smaller type of detached house called bungalow. This is house with only one floor and it is also cheaper than detached house. Cottage is the next type. It is small traditional house in Britain. It is old romantic house with garden full of roses like from a movie. One or two bedrooms are upstairs and the living room with kitchen is downstairs.

Next kind is flat. Flats can be in houses or in block of flats. They aren’t cheap because they are usually situated into Victorian or Gregorian buildings. Typical are small spaces like small bathroom with shower and no bath or small or no bedroom. On the other side there are huge flats, which can be on the roof and there are lot of spaces, you can have also garden there, but they are much more expensive and you can find them especially on the modern buildings.

Czech Republic is similar to housing to in Britain. Here are also detached and semidetached houses, terraced houses or bungalows. Bungalows are getting much more popular nowadays then they used to be. It is because of saving money. They are built as low energy houses with good isolation, so you don’t need any heating and you are saving money in this way. Many people also live in flats, especially for young couples it is better way how to live together alone, because buying of own house is too much expensive. The price depends on how big the flat is and also of course on location of the flat.

My and home

I live in detached house with my parents and sometimes with my sister. I said sometime, because she lives in Prague, she studies there. Our house is quite big, but very old. My mom’s grandpa built it. We have small front garden and bigger back garden with table and chairs in summer. On the first floor is bathroom, kitchen with eating space, living room, my parent’s cloakroom, bedroom and room where my parents work. On the upper floor there is my sister’s room, my study, my bedroom, cloakroom and small room where we have shoes and winter clothes.

Our house is situated in Skřečoň, which is smaller part of Bohumín. Around my house is quite quiet are and many people move there because of this. I love living there.

I plan to live in Prague next year. I want to go there to study at university, I have my sister and my boyfriend there. I would love to live in small flat with my boyfriend there, but I think this is too fast and better will be, if I could learn living alone on college. Me and my friend Sabina are planning to live together, this could be quite good. There is next positive side of living there, when anything happens, you can always find anybody there.

Personal characteristic

In personal identification I am going to talk about myself. My name is Hana Kočí and I live in Bohumín. I was born in Ostrava on 23^rd September 1993, so I am 19 years old. I live in Czech Republic all my life and I do not believe in God, which means I am atheist.

I am 176 cm tall and my body isn’t much slim, but better is to tell I am sporty with wide shoulders because of swimming. I have long blonde wavy hair and my face is round. My eyes are blue, I have full lips and my nose is quite up.

In my opinion I think I am really talkative and sociable. It depends on situation if it is positive or negative. I don’t like to be alone, even nor at the weekends. I make a lot of plans for what to do and where to go not to be alone at home. I have sense of humor and I have no problem to make fun of myself and I think, this is very important sometime. I am friendly and I have no problem to meet people, talk to them or make new friends. My negative characteristic is, that I am quite impatient.

My family led me to sport since I was young. We are active, we go skiing, snowboarding, skating, walking in hills, play volleyball and many more. I like all kinds of sports except basketball. One of my favourite hobbies is music, concerts and music festivals. I love electro house and trance music and I can listen to this music all night and all day long.

I love my family and my friends. My best friend is my mate Sabina. We have same sense of humor and we are together all the time. We meet in the morning in the school and then usually about three times in the evening in City Café for a coffee on week days. We are usually together also at the weekends, because we love same music, so we go to the party sometimes, or we are going to Prague together too.

My mum is a teacher on university and she helps me a lot if I need something to school. My dad owns security company and he is very clever. Sometimes I feel like he knows everything, but in the good way. My sister is two years older than me. We have never argued and we also have the same hobbies. She is shorter than me and much thinner. She has long brown hair and blue eyes like me. When we were younger, people told us we absolutely aren’t similar, but now, even we can’t understand it, they tell us, that our faces are similar a lot.