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HOUSE and FLAT. Vocabulary

HOUSE and FLAT

Vocabulary

1. 1. Dwelling

Explain the difference between:

move house – set up house

move into – move in with

multi-story building – multi-storey building

1. 2. Details

Put these words in the correct column to form phrases. Translate the phrases into Russian and make sentences with five of them:

Explain the difference between:

Attic – garret

Floor (n, C) – flooring (n, U)

Use the vocabulary from 1. 2. instead of the italicized parts of the sentences:

1. The windows faced north.

2. The window gives onto a park.

3. Consider swapping your ageing light bulbs for energy-saving light bulbs; on average, this could save you around two hundred roubles!

4. The neighbours’ flat is not spacious enough for three people.

5. Our new fridge saves some floor space.

6. In the evenings our family get together in the front room.

7. Close internal doors to keep the heat in the rooms you are in and turn radiators off in unused rooms. Consider putting on an extra layer of clothing before turning up the heating.

1. 3. Redecoration

Match the verbs in A with the nouns in B and make sentences with each word combination:

Complete the sentences with words from 1. 3.:

1. I think six rolls of this striped vinyl wallpaper will do to _______ my room.

2. The Smiths hired an _______ to do the house.

3. They are _______ the old windows with double glazing.

4. Polyurethane is the most widely used material in the furniture industry, in everything from the foam cushions to the _______ on your oak coffee table. But it can give off some quite nasty chemicals and, unlike wood, takes thousands of years to degrade.

5. The floor has been _______ to a satiny sheen.

6. The kitchen is fully fitted and has all the usual necessary appliances including a fridge, an oven and a dishwasher. The floor is _______ throughout and has ceramic tiles in the kitchen and the wet areas.

Explain the difference (if any) between:

Redecorate – refurbish – renovate

Panel (n, C) – panelling (n, U)

Decoration materials – decorative materials – building materials

Decorator – interior designer

Use the vocabulary from 1. 3. instead of the italicized parts of the sentences:

1. The walls of the house were panelled with oak.

2. I want to hire somebody to redecorate my flat.

3. The baseboard (AmE) in the hallway has slightly come away from the wall.

1. 4. Furniture

Put these words in the correct column to form phrases. Translate the phrases into Russian and make sentences with five of them:

Explain the difference between:

Bunk – bunk bed(s)

Closet – cupboard – wardrobe

Use the vocabulary from 1. 4. instead of the italicized parts of the sentences:

1. You will be able to move around the furniture to your heart’s content.

2. I’ve been trying to open the door on a room so crammed full of useless junk that the door can’t budge even an inch!

3. What can make your home more homely and less formal? Of course a floor lamp next to your favourite piece, your armchair. With its mellow light your living room is sure to have a warm, homely feel and a more lived-in look.

Complete the sentences with the correct form of the words below:

1. The sofa can be _______ _______ for a bed.

2. The designer _______ bad taste _______ his choice of furniture.

3. Fold _______ the ironing board, please!

4. Mr Smith’s house _______ his taste.

5. I liked the room’s seaside decorative _______.

6. Emerald green enhances a sense of well-being in your home and rejuvenates the _______.

7. _______ furniture won’t break the bank if you shop online.

Complete the sentences with words from 1. 4.:

1. Not only are the buildings _______ individual apartments, but many apartments are _______ people.

2. Will our new washing machine _______ the bathroom?

3. _______ are often made from natural driftwood, offcuts and basically bits that people don’t want. Such furniture is usually a beautiful organic product.

4. Those who fill their homes with antique gold fittings and mahogany _______ just show bad taste.

Translate the sentences into Russian. Give synonyms to the italicized words. Use the words and collocations in bold in appropriate contexts:

1. Our bedroom is teal and brown but I would love to have crisp fresh white sheets and a white bedroom suite.

2. It is a large, roomy cottage, luxuriously furnished, with very wide verandahs shaded by trees and awnings, carpeted and furnished so as to form open-air rooms, very delightful in a hot summer.

3. This property has got a white bathroom suite and a separate shower cubicle, a double bedroom, a modern fitted kitchen with an integral fridge/freezer, a washing machine and an oven. It’s really something special!

4. All we need in our good size living room is a three-piece living room suite.

5. Redesigning your bathroom can be a daunting prospect, but having made the decision to say bye-bye to the dated vanity unit and the wobbly toilet seat, now comes the exciting task of deciding how you want your new one to look.

6. As a rule of thumb, it is generally cheaper to buy a complete suite than the individual pieces.

7. The cottage is tastefully furnished and has a wood burning stove and central heating which makes it ideal for a break at any time of the year.

8. The Smiths have just bought a newly refurbished traditional three-bedroom(ed) cottage close to the seafront in the seaside resort of New Quay. The cottage has central heating and double-glazing and new fixtures and fittings throughout.

9. The hotel is nicely furnished in a contemporary style with cream leather suites and good quality bedding and towels.

10. I wish I could afford a 42-inch, flat-screen television…

1. 5. Neighbourhood

Explain the difference between:

city centre – inner city – downtown

Use the vocabulary from 1. 5. instead of the italicized parts of the sentences:

1. Parking was available within walking distance of the hotel.

2. Which of you live on the fringes of the city?

3. Crime can be a big problem in the areas that are close to the centre of a large city.

4. The block of flats stood a short distance from an underground station.

1. 6. Domestic/Household Chores

Find synonyms for the words in table 1. 6. and use them in appropriate contexts:

Ventilate, be a pigsty/a tip (BrE informal), spotlessly clean, clean up.

Explain the difference between:

Mop – mop up

Wash – wash up

Wipe – wipe up

Use the words dust, mop, polish, scour, scrub, sweep, vacuum (hoover), wash up, wax, wipe in the patterns (A – D) if possible:

Pattern A: need + Noun

e. g. The floor needs a wash.

Pattern B: need + Passive Infinitive

e. g. The floor needs to be washed.

Pattern C: need + Gerund

e. g. The floor needs washing.

Pattern D: do the + Verbal Noun*

e. g. I hate to do/doing the washing!

*NOTE

The verbal noun is derived from a verb, but it has/exhibits no verbal features at all, i. e. a verbal noun is strictly a noun. The nominal properties of the verbal noun are:

• It takes the definite article as its determiner (It was a habit with him to tell her the doings of his day);
• It can be used in the plural number if the sense permits (Lewis had offices in Zurich and London, and his comings and goings were casual);
• It can take adjectival attributes in pre-position and of-phrases functioning as attributes, not objects (There was a tramping of feet ).

1. 7. Household, Decorative and Other Objects

Explain the difference between:

Doorknob – door handle

Dustbin – garbage/trash can – bin    

Translate the sentences into Russian. Give synonyms to the words and collocations in bold or explain what they mean:

1. Do you think candlesticks will become an interior design must-have this year?

2. Middle class families as a rule live in semidetached houses with floral patterned wallpaper.

3. Depending on your taste and the furniture style, bring the rest of the decor in line with the furniture. Cushions, upholstery can tone with curtains and give (add) a warm colour to the room.

4. Let’s face it: we love lounging around on our sofas and chairs when we get the chance. From red leather to soft pastel upholstery, comfort is key.

5. What I want now is to sink into the sofa cushions in a lamplit room and read, preferably one of those enormous, thick novels that I have read before...

6. He was relieved to see that the waste disposal unit (garbage disposal unit, AmE) was as new-looking as everything else, that there were no shreds clinging to its teeth.

Complete the sentences with words from 1. 7., explain what the words and collocations in bold mean, use them in proper contexts:

1. Would you like a _______ carpet in your living room? – Oh, no, I’d like a plain wall-to-wall one.

2. Congrats! You are done with the living room in fresh wallpaper and paint, and are also through with the flooring and _______, how do you go ahead with buying the right furniture that goes with the colour and theme?

3. When I got into the room however, the _______ was literally hanging off the wall in the toilet, the towel in the bathroom was dirty, but worst of all, as soon as I sat on the bed, it collapsed!

4. The room was cosy but spartan – wooden floors, no _______, wainscotted walls, candles in _______.

5. All you need to deep clean and deodorize a _______ is to grind ice cubes made with half vinegar, half water in it.

6. Clean up the mess on the floor beneath his table, please! You can sweep the rubbish into this _______.

1. 8. Appliances and Electrical Equipment

Translate the sentences into Russian. Explain what the words and collocations in bold mean:

1. This is an era of liberation for women. Many time- and labour-saving domestic appliances like disposals and dishwashers are introduced in this decade, allowing women to work outside of the home and still cook and clean in a timely fashion.

2. Chrome is among the most common appliance materials of the decade. It is a material that decorates kitchen tables and chairs, clocks, drawer handles and other decorative pieces.

3. We’ve had (got) satellite television installed. Now we can’t find the remote control!

4. If you want to start reducing your energy (electricity) bills get into the habit of turning off the television(hi fi/etc) at the socket or on the set, and not leaving it on standby. (standby is the mode in which an appliance is neither switched off, nor is in full-on mode).

5. The factory settings on TVs are often too bright for home use.

6. Don’t forget to unplug your phone charger when it has finished charging.

7. The lamp was attached to an extension lead enabling me to easily move it around wherever I needed a little more light.