Word List

Here are the words from this topic about house and home:

address downstairs sofa

balcony elevator/lift stairs
basement flat table
bath floor toilet
bathroom garden upstairs
blanket key wall
bed kitchen windows
bedroom living room
chair roof
dining room shower
Prepositions
Use these prepositions and phrases to describe where you live. You should
review prepositions of place before writing this essay.

● I live in a small house/big apartment.

● The house is in/on a quiet street.
● It’s near/not far from the train station.
● There’s a garden behind the house.
● It’s a ten-minute walk to/from the town centre.

Note that when we say a ten-minute walk, a twenty-minute walk, etc. we use a
number + a hyphen (–) + the word minute in the singular.

There is/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 is a bus stop near the apartment.

● There isn’t a bath in the bathroom.

You can shorten there is to there’s.

● There’s a single bed in the guest bedroom.

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.

In negative sentences, we use any, NOT some.

● There aren’t any towels in the guest bedroom.

Activity:

Write a brief description of one part of your house. Use there is/ there are
(affirmative and negative), vocabulary related to house and prepositions of
place.

Try to write a paragraph of at least six sentences.

Ex: In my dining room there is a big rounded table. There are four big chairs
around it. In front of the table, there’s a window…

In my living room there is a couch under the window, near the couch there is a
desk. On my desk is the computer. beside there is a shelf, there are some
books and under the shelf there is a tv. And on the wall there are four
paintings.