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0.6   At home                                              4  Read REMEMBER THIS. Then complete the
                                                                           cartoon captions with there is or there are.
             Grammar:  Prepositions • there is/there are                  REMEMBER THIS

             Vocabulary: Rooms and furniture
                                                                          Singular
                                                                          There is a cooker in the kitchen.
           WORD STORE 0.6 page 1                                          There is an armchair in the living room.
                                                                          there is = there’s
          1   Complete WORD STORE 0.6. Label the picture with the words in
             the box.
                                                                          Plural
               armchair    bath    bed    carpet    chair    cooker    desk      There are four chairs in the kitchen.
               dishwasher    fridge    lamp    poster    shower    sink    sofa
               table    toilet    wall    wardrobe    window
                                                                        1     only one room in my house.
          2   Where is the cat? Label the pictures with the prepositions in
             the box.

               behind    between    in    in front of    next to    on
               opposite    above    under

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                                                                               2       hundreds of rooms in my house!


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                                                                        5   Complete the text with there is or there are.
                                                                           Then read the text again and draw the room.
                                                                           My bedroom is my favourite room in the house!
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                                                                           It’s small, but I love it.  There is a bed. Next to
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                                                                           the bed       a carpet. Opposite the bed
                                                                           3     two small wardrobes. Between the
          3   Read the text and look at the photos. Can people live in this   wardrobes     a desk with a chair.  5  two
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          house? Why?/Why not?                                             posters above the bed.       a guitar under
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                                                                           the bed. Under the window  7    a small table.
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              there’s a big sofa, a table and a picture.                6   In pairs, follow the instructions.
              There are two beds in the bedrooms, but                      1  Draw a picture of your bedroom but don’t
              you can’t sleep in them! There’s a big
                                                                             show your partner.
              kitchen. In the kitchen there’s a cooker, a
                                                                           2  Describe your bedroom for your partner to
              fridge, a dishwasher, a table and chairs. In
              the bathroom there’s a toilet, a bath and a                    draw. Then listen to your partner’s description
              shower, but you can’t use them. Everything in                  and draw his/her bedroom. Ask questions to
              the house is upside down!                                      help you, e.g. Where is the bed? How many
                                                                             posters are there?
                                                                           3  Compare your drawings.
                                                                        7   Write fi ve sentences about your fl at/house,
                                                                           four true and one false. Then, in pairs, take
                                                                           turns to read your sentences to your partner.
                                                                           Can he/she guess which sentence is false?
                                                                           There are three rooms in my house/flat.
                                                                           There is a living room, …
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