ENGLISH FIILE INTERMEDIATE 3rd EDITION - 7B - Ideal home

1- apartment building 
2- house
3- duplex/two-family house
4- townhouse/townhome 
5- condominium/condo
6- dormitory/dorm
7- mobile home 
8- nursing home
9- shelter
10- farm
11- ranch
12- houseboat
13- the city
14- the suburbs
15- the country
16- a town/village

  

cottage

 

villa: (n) a large house, usually in a rural area or near the sea.

 

outskirts x suburbs

- outskirts: (n) (of cities and towns) the areas that form the edge. E.g.: the outskirts of town. 

- supburb: (n) /ˈsʌb·ɜrb/ an area outside a city but near it and consisting mainly of homes, sometimes also having stores and small businesses. E.g.: [pl] Most of the people who live in the suburbs work in the city.

The outskirts is the area around a city which is the furthest from the centre (They lived on the outskirts of Milan).The suburbs is a residential area outside the centre of a large city (Croydon is a suburb of London).

REFERENCES:

PARTS OF A HOUSE. Available on http://www.parkfieldict.co.uk/infant/homes/house.html

TYPES OF HOUSING AND COMMUNITIES. Avalilable on http://englishwilleasy.com/english-through-pictures/place-english-through-pictures/types-of-housing-and-communities/.