Describing your home
When you write about your home you can write about:
- the different rooms in your home
- what is in each room
- where it is
VOCABULARY (The different rooms in your home)
Here you can see some useful words:
Kitchen
Toilet
Hall
Garden
Living room
Nursery (room)
Bathroom
Home office
Bedroom
Dining room
Laundry (room)
Garage
Basement
A few other useful words to describe your home:
Window
Balcony
Roof
Door
Chimney
Letterbox
Yard
Path
Driveway
House
Flat
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THERE IS/THERE ARE Use there is/are to write about the things in or near your home.
Use there is with singular nouns. Use a before the singular noun. The negative form is there isn’t.
There isn’t a bath in the bathroom.
There is a bus stop near the apartment.
Use there are with plural nouns. We often use some or a number before the noun.
There are two bedrooms in the flat.
There are some books on the shelf.
SOME USEFUL ADVERBS Start your sentences with one of these adverbs to talk about different parts of your home.
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Downstairs, there is a kitchen and a living room.
Outside, there is a garden.
Inside, there are five rooms.
Upstairs, there are three bedrooms.
And now let's review the names of the objects that we can find in the rooms.