AT HOME

Rooms 🏡

Houses and flats are usually divided into rooms. You use each room for a particular purpose. The main rooms in a house are the bedroom, the bathroom, the kitchen, the living room, and sometimes the spare room, the dining room, the utility room and the study. The garage is the place where you keep your car.

You sleep in a bedroom. If you have a spare room, guests and friends who come to stay with you sleep in it. You wash yourself in a bathroom. You have your meals in a dining room or your kitchen. You relax, e.g. listen to music, read books, chat with friends, watch TV, etc. in a living room. You work in a study. You cook food and wash dishes in a kitchen. You park your car in a garage. Some houses and flats have halls or hallways. These are by the front door. You often hang coats in a hall. When people come to the door, e.g. people you don't know, you might ask them to wait in the hall.

Verbs

You use the verb do (not make) with many everyday tasks, e.g. housework.Note that you use make with certain nouns, e.g. make a meal, make a bed. You use the verb have with shower, bath and meals.

I don't like doing housework.  not  making housework

I have to do the ironing twice a week. not  making the ironing

You made a lovely meal for us last night.     Shall I make the bed?

I'm having a shower.       Let's have lunch.

You wash yourself and you wash your hands (not the hands).

Go and wash your hands - they're dirty.       I washed my face.

>  You use the verb go and the preposition to with bed and sleep.

I went to bed too late last night.     She goes to sleep very quickly.

Prepositions

When you're in your house or flat, you say that you are at home. However, you say that you're in a room.

Will you be at home tomorrow?

Where's Pete?   He's in the kitchen.