Show homes A What do you want from a home? Somewhere that's cosy and relaxing, or somewhere interesting and unusual? Throughout history, people have used their imaginations to create unique places to live. In Ukraine, you can find a few of these buildings. B In Odesa, one of the strangest sights is the wall house'. When you stand in front of this 19th century building, you can't see a wall on one side. This is because it was built as a triangle. Why? The reason, some say, is that the builder didn't have enough bricks to build the fourth side. C In the late 20th century, blocks of flats became a common way to provide homes for lots of people. Most of these buildings look very similar, but on 82 Sakharova Street in Lviv, there's a nine-storey block with a difference. It's got a huge crossword puzzle on one of its walls. The crossword is 18m wide by 30m tall, and it has thirty-nine clues across and forty clues down. You can find the clues in many places around Lviv, for example, historical landmarks, pubs and tourist information centres. You can then check the answers on the crossword after dark. They are in fluorescent paint, so you can only see them at night. It's probably the first city-wide crossword puzzle in the world. 1 Read the text. Tick (✓) the correct box. The text says that... A famous architects designed all the buildings. B D In Lutsk, a sculptor called Mykola Golovan has got a house covered in his own work. The house has got around 500 statues and sculptures. They are on the roof, on the walls inside the building and in the garden. Golovan is sometimes called the 'Lutsk Gaudí' because his house reminds people of the work of the famous Spanish architect, Antoni Gaudí. the buildings have all got something unusual about them. cyou can find the buildings in travel guides. 2 Read the text again. Match questions 1-4 with paragraphs A-D. 1 Which house looks like it's from Spain? 2 What is your ideal house? 3 Why hasn't it got four sides? 4 Which house looks different at night? 5 Who is the 'Lutsk Gaudi'? 3 Answer the questions. Write complete sentences. 1 What shape is the 'wall house' in Odesa? 2 What is one reason for its shape? 3 How many clues has the Lviv crossword got? 4 Where can you find the clues? 6 What is unusual about the sculptor's house? 4 Complete the sentences with numbers in words. 1 The wall house is an example of. century architecture. 2 The Lviv crossword is on a block of flats. 3 The crossword is metres tall. 1 That girl 2 It's really I am. 4 It has got. clues across. 5 Mykola Golovan's house has got around statues and sculptures. century Build your vocabulary 5 Complete the sentences with the words in the box. cosy bricks fluorescent sculptures reminds dark metres wide and 3 Michelangelo's 4 This house is warm and place to relax. 5 We wear me of my sister. in here. I can't see where are world famous. It's a good jackets at night, so drivers can see us. 6 In the nineteenth century they built houses fro
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