a double bed,

a landing the master bedroom a queen size bed, bedside tables

a king size bed

chest of drawers a rug a carpet a washing up basket

free standing
the wardrobes built-in wardrobes the second bedroom
wardrobes

an office a desk an office chair a shelf

different
a bookcase a bathroom a toilet
compartments

a sink a cabinet a shower a rain head shower

a tap a faucet the stairs the hallway

the front door a porch the living room a couch

a sofa an armchair a TV stand pillows

a sofa or an
cushions the fireplace a sideboard
armchair

the
kitchen the dishwasher a countertop
washing machine

cupboards cabinets kitchen cupboards the dining room

do the shopping sweep the floor take out the tidy up

garbage
do the laundry wash the car cleaning the do the vacuuming
refrigerator
fold the laundry do the washing up make the bed dry the dishes

clean the bathroom dusting walk the dog lay the table
AROUND THE HOUSE
Today we are talking about how real native speakers talk about their home and items in
their home and I'm sure you're probably thinking 'I know how to talk about a house, I know
how to say door and window,' but that's not what we're talking about today. I'm going to
tell you how real native speakers from Britain talk about their home. So we are going to go
on a little tour of my home, what are you waiting for? Let's go! Come on! Okay, so let's start
on the landing, the bit at the top of the stairs is called a landing and if you follow me, I'll
take you to the first room.
Okay so for the biggest bedroom in the house, we either call it the main bedroom or the
master bedroom, sometimes you might hear the master suite but I think that's a bit posh.
And in this room you might have a double bed, a queen size bed or a king size bed...
maybe a super king if you want. Here we have some lovely bedside tables and a positively
stunning chest of drawers, down here we have a rug, now it's not a carpet, okay? A carpet
is for the whole floor, a little bit of carpet is a rug. Just moving some of the mess out of
the way to reveal a washing up basket, now it's- oh- "Probably my pants in there," Here we
have the wardrobes for our clothes, not cupboards, they're wardrobes and you can either
get built-in wardrobes like these or you can get free standing wardrobes. Okay, back to the
house tour!
Okay, come with me and I'll show you what we call a spare bedroom or other people might
call it the second bedroom, it depends how many rooms you have, so this room we use as
an office, my partner Bez works here, so we have a desk and an office chair, um, but also
you can sleep in it because we have a bed so it's like double purpose. We also have a third
bedroom which we would call a box room because it's so small but it's so dirty I'm not going
to show it to you. And here we have a shelf but you knew that, this is a bookcase with lots
of different compartments.
Oh I really need the toilet, come, come, come quick! Come quick! Okay, we all know what a
bathroom looks like, there's a toilet, there's a sink, there's a cabinet, there's a shower and
a bath. What more do you want to know, guys? Oh, this is interesting actually, we have a
rain head shower, because it makes the water come down like rain, that's interesting! Oh,
in Britain, this is a tap, not a faucet, okay?
Come down the stairs! Make sure you don't say steps, by the way, steps are for outside.
Come on, come on, come on! And welcome to the hallway! Now if you spin round, you'll
see the front door leading to a porch, which I'm not going to show you because I don't
want you coming to my house. This here is a bannister, not a handrail, a handrail is very
formal for public spaces, in your home it's a bannister. Now you get to see my favourite
room, so this can either be called the living room, the sitting room or the lounge, but I call
it the living room, I think most commonly or the lounge, I never really say sitting room.
Now if I was American, I would call this a couch but i'm not so I call it a sofa as most of us
British people do. Now I'm sitting in an armchair, if it's a chair for one person to sit in but
it's comfy and it's got armrests, it's an armchair. Down there we have a TV stand. These are
not pillows, they're cushions, if they go on a sofa or an armchair, they're cushions. Again
we have a rug, not a carpet, a rug, look how soft it is. Up here we have a mantelpiece on
top of the fireplace, look at that lovely mantelpiece, it's lovely. And this is the fireplace.
Now I call this a sideboard but I guess you could call it a cabinet, too, if you really wanted
to, but it's a sideboard.
Okay let's come through to the open plan kitchen, oh I feel so fancy, oh my goodness, who
do I think I am? Okay extractor fan for all the fumes to go up, then we have the hob where
things get nice and hot then if we go down we have the grill for bacon and whatnot, then
the main oven. Here we have the dishwasher for washing dishes and over here we have
the washing machine for washing clothes. Okay in Britain I think most commonly we would
call this a work surface but you can also call it just a surface or a counter or a countertop. In
the kitchen we have cupboards or cabinets, we don't have wardrobes, so you would say
oh look at all my kitchen cupboards or look at all my cabinets, aren't they lovely? And
finally we have the dining room which in our house is in a conservatory. Ao here we've got
the dining table and some dining chairs. So, yeah, like I said, it's in a conservatory because
it's surrounded by windows.