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People who love to travel build their
houses on wheels. Such a house is called
a caravan or houses on wheels. These
people keep moving from one place to
another. Caravans were pulled by horses
in the olden days. Nowadays they are
driven like a bus or a car.
Caravan
Think &
Answer Are houseboats, igloos and caravans permanent or temporary houses?
Let’s Recall
A house provides us with shelter from the heat, rain, storms, snow and from
animals and thieves.
Houses are of different types. Houses can be permanent or temporary.
People in cities and towns live in pucca houses which are built with bricks
cement, iron, steel, wood and stone.
Big cities have bungalows, double-storey houses and multi-storeyed
buildings.
People in villages live in kutcha houses which are built with mud, straw,
leaves and bamboo.
We find different kinds of houses in different parts of India and other
countries.
There are some uncommon houses with sloping roofs, stilt house, mud
houses, houseboats, igloos, caravans.
Key Words
house shelter heat rain storm
snow temporary permanent pucca house bungalow
flats apartments sloping slide kutcha house
stilts houseboat igloo caravan wheels
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