Describing your home; kitchen and living room; bedroom and bathroom
| NEW WORD/EXPRESSION | EXAMPLE |
| block of flats: a large building that is divided into apartments | The block of flats was destroyed in an earthquake. |
| town house: a house in a town or city, usually a comfortable, expensive one in a fashionable area | It was a beautiful four-storey town house. |
| cottage: a small house, usually in the countryside: | We rented a little beach cottage on the North Caroline coast. |
| steel: a strong metal that is a mixture of iron and carbon, used for making things that need a strong structure, especially vehicles and buildings | Guitar strings nowadays are made from steel or nylon. |
| brick: a rectangular block of hard material used for building walls and houses | The chimney was made of bricks. |
| hedge: a line of bushes or small trees planted very close together, especially along the edge of a garden, field, or road |
She kicked the ball so powerfully that it flew over the hedge. |
| fence: a structure that divides two areas of land, similar to a wall but made of wood or wire and supported with posts | The house was surrounded by a tall, wooden fence. |
| garden: a piece of land next to and belonging to a house, where flowers and other plants are grown, and often containing an area of grass | The children were playing in the garden. |
| chimney: a hollow structure that allows the smoke from a fire inside a building to escape to the air outside | Factory chimneys belched dense white smoke into the sky. |
| lawn: an area of grass, especially near to a house or in a park, that is cut regularly to keep it short | Will you mow the lawn at the weekend? |
| roof: the covering that forms the top of a building, vehicle, etc. | The house has a sloping/flat/tiled/thatched roof |
| balcony: an area with a wall or bars around it that is joined to the outside wall of a building on an upper level | We had a drink on the hotel balcony. |
| basement: a part of a building consisting of rooms that are partly or completely below the level of the ground | Our kitchenware department is in the basement. |
| convenient: suitable for your purposes and needs and causing the least difficulty | Our local shop has very convenient opening hours. |
| sitting room: a living room | The sitting room had exposed wooden beams. |
| hall: the area just inside the main entrance of a house, apartment, or other building that leads to other rooms and usually to the stairs | I left my bags in the hall. |
| kitchen: a room where food is kept, prepared, and cooked and where the dishes are washed | We usually eat breakfast in the kitchen. |
| dishwasher: a machine that washes dirty plates, cups, forks, etc | This dishwasher even washes pots and pans. |
| corkscrew: a device for removing corks from bottles, that consists of a handle with a twisted metal rod to push into the cork and pull it out | A corkscrew is spiral-shaped. |
| sofa: a long, soft seat with a back and usually arms, on which more than one person can sit at the same time | They settled down on the sofa to watch the film. |
| cupboard: a piece of furniture or a space for storing things, with a door or doors and usually with shelves | We keep the hoover and mop in a cupboard under the stairs. |
| kettle: a container for boiling water, that has a lid, handle, and spout and is made from plastic or metal | I don’t like the design of this kettle. |
| pillow: a rectangular cloth bag filled with soft material, such as feathers or artificial materials, used for resting your head on in bed | Do you prefer a feather pillow or a foam pillow? |
NOTES:
Furniture is an uncountable noun and can never be plural There is a lot of furniture in this house. |
place, space place is a countable noun Can you find a place to put this vase, please? space can be used as an uncountable noun. There isn’t enough space for the vase on the shelf.
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