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Homework: reading, p. 66/67 (C + D + E) and grammar, p.68

Posh /pɒʃ/ adjective

1 EXPENSIVE expensive and used or owned by rich people

A posh hotel/restaurant

2 SOCIAL CLASS [SOCIETY] UK from a high social class

A posh voice

Filthy /ˈfɪlθi/ adjective

1 DIRTY extremely dirty

Wash your hands, they're filthy!

2 OFFENSIVE rude or offensive

Filthy language/jokes

Smoking is a filthy habit.

Woodland /ˈwʊdlənd/ noun [ C , U ]

[ GEOGRAPHY ] an area of land with a lot of trees

ˌ Half ˈ board noun [ U ] mainly UK

The price for a room in a hotel, which includes breakfast and dinner.

Self-catering /ˌselfˈkeɪt ə rɪŋ/ adjective UK

Describes a holiday in which you have a kitchen so that you can cook meals for yourself

We decided to stay in self-catering accommodation rather than in a hotel.

cuisine /kwɪzˈiːn/ noun [ U ]

[ FOOD ] a style of cooking

French/international cuisine 

Dirty old men

Make do

to manage to live without things that you would like to have or with things of a worse quality than you would like:

We didn't have cupboards so we made do with boxes.

house 
types of house: terraced house British English/row house American English one of several houses that are joined together
detached house British English a house that is not joined to another house
semi-detached house British English a house that is attached to another house on one side
cottage a small house in the country
bungalow British English a small house with one floor
duplex American English a house that is divided into two separate homes
apartment also flat British English a set of rooms where someone lives, which is part of a larger building
condominium/condo American English an apartment in a large building, which is owned by the people who live there
studio apartment/studio also bedsit British English an apartment with one main room and no separate bedroom
a very large house: mansion, palace, country house British English,stately home British English
someone who sells houses and land: estate agent British English,real estate agent American English, realtor American English
someone who rents a house from another person: tenant
someone who owns a house and rents it to people: landlord,landladyhouse

QUARTER:

Part of a city

 [Usually singular] an area of a town:

class=pronsentence title="Look up a word starting with D or S for samples of headword or sentence pronunciations on the LDOCE CD-ROM" v:shapes="_x0000_i1026"> I found a small flat in the student quarter.

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A historic quarter of the city

It’s a five-minute walk to the centre

You have to drive everywhere.

stew‧ard‧ess [countable]

a woman whose job is to serve food and drinks to passengers on a plane or ship [↪ flight attendant]

Someone can rob a person or place, but you cannot say that they rob an object or amount of money. Use steal: He robbed a bank, stealing cash and valuables worth $500,000.

household [countable]

All the people who live together in one house [= house]:

A growing number of households have at least one computer.

Families are classified by the occupation of the head of the household (=the person who earns the most money and is most respected in a house).