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British Life (Subject) / Housing and Transport (Lesson)
- Underground map Designed by Harry Beck in 1931
- house prices Soared in London about 8.7%.Scotland falls about 0.7%.
- Use of cars Three quarter of households in Britain have regular usw of a car and a third have more than one car.
- Reasons for a car - Image- privacy
- Public transport buses, double-decker buses, Underground (tube), black taxi, (Inter-City)-trains, plane,
- different houses - detached house = sepearte building, status symbol- semi-detached house = 2 floors, 3 bedrooms- stately home = everyone dream- thratched cottage (strohbedecktes Landhaus)- flats = cheapest, less privacy- terraced house = 2 floors, 2 bedrooms
- Importance of Home - Individualtity- "Home"-feeling- like to be cosy (open fire, ornaments)- dont like to rent - pay the house by mortgage- property ladder (First time buyer sell their house at a profit to second-time buyer and move up the property ladder into a more expensive house.
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