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Unit 1 Interesting Houses
Listening Comprehension
What is your house like? It may be a fifteenth-floor apartment. Or it may be a two-
bedroom brick house. But for someone else, it may be a wooden hut or a cloth tent.
Houses are very different in different parts of the world.
For example, nomads in Mongolia live in yurts. Nomads do not live in one place.
Mongolian nomads raise animals. They move to find food for their animals. They move
often, so their homes are similar to tents. They can fold them up and take them when
they go. Most yurts have a wooden frame. Wool cloth covers the wood. And canvas
covers the wool.
On the other hand, houses in Matamata, Tunisia are underground. The entrances
are holes in the ground. People go through the holes and enter yards. Doors in the
yard lead to different rooms. But why do people in Matmata live underground?
Historians think they built the houses to hide. Long ago, people invaded their land.
The people in Matmata hid from them.
Navajo Native Americans have interesting houses. They are called hogans. The first
hogans had five sides. Today, most have six or eight sides. The Navajo make hogans
from logs. Usually, dirt or clay covers the logs. According to legend, a coyote and
beavers built a hogan at the beginning of time.
Then, they gave it to the first people.
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Listening Comprehension
What is your house like? It may be a fifteenth-floor apartment. Or it may be a two-
bedroom brick house. But for someone else, it may be a wooden hut or a cloth tent.
Houses are very different in different parts of the world.
For example, nomads in Mongolia live in yurts. Nomads do not live in one place.
Mongolian nomads raise animals. They move to find food for their animals. They move
often, so their homes are similar to tents. They can fold them up and take them when
they go. Most yurts have a wooden frame. Wool cloth covers the wood. And canvas
covers the wool.
On the other hand, houses in Matamata, Tunisia are underground. The entrances
are holes in the ground. People go through the holes and enter yards. Doors in the
yard lead to different rooms. But why do people in Matmata live underground?
Historians think they built the houses to hide. Long ago, people invaded their land.
The people in Matmata hid from them.
Navajo Native Americans have interesting houses. They are called hogans. The first
hogans had five sides. Today, most have six or eight sides. The Navajo make hogans
from logs. Usually, dirt or clay covers the logs. According to legend, a coyote and
beavers built a hogan at the beginning of time.
Then, they gave it to the first people.
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