Engels my neighbourhood

• Aardrijkskunde
• Middelbare school
• havo
• Leerjaar 1

Your house and your neighbourhood 

Describe your house.
What does it look like?

Describe your neighbourhood.
What does it look like?

Main question of this chapter:

What do your own surroundings look like?

What are the residents' and housing characteristics?

Spatial planning 

The organization of space for housing, work, recreation and traffic

= man-made landscape

= land use

Village

City

About your own surroundings:
where do you live?

In a village

In a city

Check up: 

do you know those words?

Try to drag the description to the right key word. 

Place it on the coloured rectangulars.

Just try! It is ok if you make a mistake :)

Own surroundings

Area

District

Neighbourhoods

Amenities

Area around your home

A small or large piece of the Earth's surface

Part of a village, town or city.

Part of a district.

Services that everyone uses.

You need to know differences between types of houses. 

Take a look at the next differences!

Multi-family houses

Single-family house

high-rise building

low-rise building

Owner-occupied house

Rented house

cheap house

expensive house

This is a

1. Single-family house
2. Multi-family house
3. High-rise building
4. Low-rise building

1. Single-family house
2. Multi-family houses
3. High-rise building
4. Low-rise building

Assignment

• Describe your neighbourhood in 100 words(what are the houses like, trees, types of streets, etc.)
• Describe the facilities in your neighbourhood in 100 words(Is there a playground, supermarket, bank, etc.)