Life Level 1

There is/are ...: Prepositions of place (in the corner, in the middle,
in front of, behind)

bathroom
My new apartment
There are four rooms in the
apartment. There’s a living room,
a kitchen, a bedroom, and a kitchen
bathroom.
There’s a big window in the living
living room. There are two sofas. room
There’s a table in the middle of
the room and there’s a television
in the corner.
The bedroom is small. There’s a
bedroom
bed, a desk, and a chair. The desk
is next to the bed and in front of
the window.
There’s no window in the
bathroom and there’s no bathtub.
There’s a shower.

Presentation

Affirmative Prepositions of place

a
There’s sofa.
one
two
There are three sofas.
four in the corner / in the in the middle / in the
corner of the room middle of the room
TIP t here’s = there + is

Negative

There isn’t a sofa.

There aren’t two sofas.

in front of the window behind the door
TIP t here
isn’t = there is not
there aren’t = there are not
There’s no sofa. = There isn’t a sofa.

Key vocabulary Rooms and furniture: living room, kitchen, bedroom, bathroom, bathtub, bed, chair, desk, door,
shower, sofa, table, television, window

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 Level 1
Exercises

1 Complete the sentences with There’s or There are.

1 There’s a table in the kitchen. 4 a table next to the sofa.
2 four chairs in the corner. 5 a sofa between the windows.
3 no television in the bedroom. 6 two bathrooms.

2 Match the sentences to the apartments.

1 The bedroom’s big. B
2 The bedroom’s small.
3 The chair’s behind the door in the bathroom.
4 The television’s in front of the sofa.
5 There are four chairs and a table in
the middle of room.
6 There are three windows in the living room.
7 There’s a bathtub and there’s a shower.
8 There’s a chair next to the bed.
9 There’s a big bed in the middle of the room.
10 There’s a big sofa.
11 There’s a big window in the living room.
12 There’s a shower – there’s no bathtub.
13 There’s a table and four chairs in the corner.
14 There’s no sofa.

A B

3 Look at the picture and write sentences. Use the words in parentheses.
1 (two windows)
There are two windows in the room.
2 (a big sofa)
There’s a big sofa in the middle of the room.
3 (two chairs)

4 (desk)

5 (computer)

6 (television)

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