30 Around the home | ‘A Rooms ‘The living oom or lounge (= where you sit, relax, tall and watch TV}; the dining room; te kitchen; the bedroom(s}; and the bathrooms). Some people also have a study (= room with a desk where you work), «utility room (2 ‘oom usually next to the kitchen, where you have a washing machine), a spare fom (=a room you don’t use every day. Otten this is a room that guests can use), and possibly & playroom for small children, B The lounge ay curtains (AmEng = drapes) CD player i-flJ music — system coffee table While the car was asleep im the armehai, Isat on the sofa and had a look ar the paper. Then turned on the TV and went to make a cup of te © The kitchen saucepan _feying pan on | @rz Lh © T pur the meat in the oven, put my dirty clothes in the washing machine, made the coffee and put the milk back in the fridge 104 Enel Vocabulary in Use (preitermecate & intermediate)50.8 $50.2 50.3 50.4 50.5 50.6 Exercises Complete the descriptions. (There may be more than one possible answer.) ‘The bedroom, thar's where you sleep The kitchen, that’s where you do the The bathroom, thar’s where you have a and ‘The lounge, that's where you and The dining room, chat’s where you AA space room, thar’s often where A study, that’s usually sehere you A utility room, that’s often where You are in the kitchen, Where would you put these things? lk meat that you are going to cook dirty clothes dirty cups and saucers clean cups and saucers biscuits and a packet of spaghetti Here ate some things you find in the lounge of kitchen but the letters are jumbled. What are they, and where do they belong? skin naciruse—rapcer_—shadriswhe —tckler fos veon—digeet—hiamerar—pobeadru—_acepasnu Complete these s wees with the correct adverb or preposi LHe put the plates the cupboard, 2 Took the ham ‘of the fridge, made myself a couple of sandwiches, and then I put the rest of the ham in the fridge. 3 Tusually sit the sofa and my husband sits ‘an armchair. 4 Twas bored, so | turned the television. 5 You normally cook it the oven for about forty minutes. 6 Took the butter of the fridge and put it the table Imagine you have just moved into a new flat, and for the first six months you can only have six of the following. Which would you choose? sofa carpets. dishwasher. TV. cooker curtain fridge desk hifi bed dining table washing machine Kettle saucepans. food mixer armchair Write down: 1 three things in the lounge and kitchen you can turn onfoff, 2 three things in the kiveten you can wash, 3 three things in the lounge and kitchen you ean sit on, 4 two things you can use to boil water English Vocabulary n Use (predntamedione & mtermedite) 10s