A Description of My House – A1 English

🟩Think about your house

Before you start writing, think about these questions:

• Where is your house? → I live in a small house in the countryside. / I live in a flat in the city centre.
• What rooms are there? → There are two bedrooms, a kitchen, a living room and a bathroom.
• What is in each room? → In the living room, there is a sofa, a TV and a coffee table.
• What is near your home? → There’s a park across the street. / It’s near the train station.

🟩Vocabulary: Rooms and furniture

Review these useful words before you write:

• Rooms: bedroom, bathroom, kitchen, living room, dining room, garden, balcony
• Furniture & appliances: bed, sofa, table, chair, fridge, oven, washing machine, TV, cupboard, shelf

🟩Prepositions of place

Use these phrases to describe where your home is:

• I live in a small house / big apartment.
• The house is on a quiet street.
• It’s near the train station.
• There’s a garden behind the house.
• It’s a ten-minute walk to the town centre.

🔍 Note: Use a hyphen and singular “minute” in phrases like a ten-minute walk.

🟩There is / There are

• Use there is (or there’s) with singular nouns:
  There’s a sofa in the living room.
• Use there are with plural nouns:
  There are two armchairs and a bookshelf.
• Negative: There isn’t / There aren’t any:
  There isn’t a bath. / There aren’t any towels.

🟩Has / Has got

• Positive: The house has got a garden. / The flat has WIFI.
• Negative: The house hasn’t got a garage. / The flat doesn’t have a balcony.

🟩Just / Only

Use just or only to show something is limited:

• There’s only one bedroom. / There’s just one bedroom.
• The flat only has a shower. / The house has just got a small kitchen.

🟩Using “with”

Add extra details using with:

• I live in a house with a big garden.
• There’s a kitchen with three chairs.
• There’s a cupboard with five shelves.

🟩Useful adverbs to start sentences

• Upstairs, there are two bedrooms.
• Downstairs, there is a kitchen and a living room.
• Inside, there are five rooms.
• Outside, there is a small garden.

🟩Writing lists

When listing items, follow these rules:

• Use there is if the first item is singular:
  In the kitchen, there is a fridge, a microwave and a table.
• Use commas between items, and and before the last item.
• To contrast, use but:
  There’s a bath, a toilet and a sink, but there isn’t a shower.

Example paragraph:
I live in a small flat in the city centre. It’s near the train station and only a ten-minute walk from the park. Downstairs, there is a living room with a sofa, a TV and a coffee table. Upstairs, there are two bedrooms and a bathroom. The bathroom has a shower, a toilet and a sink, but it doesn’t have a bath. The kitchen has got a fridge, an oven and a washing machine. There isn’t a dishwasher, but that’s okay! Outside, there’s a small balcony with two chairs. I love my flat because it’s quiet and comfortable.