What is your House Like?
- It’s a semi-detached and it has three bedrooms and one bathroom.
- It’s a hut with a single room.
- It’s white.
- It’s big.
Of course, there are many ways to answer the open-ended question: ‘What is your house like?‘. In today’s lesson you will learn how to describe your house by giving more details so that your reader or interlocutor can actually picture it. Ready?
Types of Houses
It is just incredible to see the variety of houses that we have on earth. Do you know what a shanty is? Look the word up in a dictionary and also observe how it is used in context.
Yesterday, we also many other examples. Do you remember them? Let’s see how we can use some of the words in real life.
- I have been living in a brick house for the past three years.
- I think that stone houses are sturdier than shacks.
- Living in a houseboat must be fun but I prefer to live in an appartment.
- I like farm houses because they remind me of my country.
- I would like to buy a penthouse so that I can rent it to someone else.
- Have you ever seen a thatched cottage? I live in one.
- One day I will live in a beautiful villa but currectly I rent a pretty wooden house.
- I like travelling a lot so I live in a caravan.
Your Turn: Can you make your own sentences using some of the words below?
When you are describing your house, you can also talk about the materials that were used to build it? Is it wood or mud?
Here are a few more examples:
- Mud
- Clay
- Grass
- Bamboo
- Ice
- Glass
- Plastic
- Fabric
- Bricks
- Stones
- Prefabricated panels
- Rocks
Can you think of other materials? What are they? What is your house made of? If you had to build one, what materials would you use and why?
As for me, I currently live in a stone house. I like it because it is sturdy and it regulates the temperature in summer and winter. If I had a house under construction, I would use the same materials because they are not fragile. I did not use too much plastic for safety and environmental reasons.
Adjectives
You can use the above Adjectives for a more detailed description of your dwelling. What other words come to your mind?
Let’s look at a few more examples:
Cost
- Affordable
- Cheap
- Expensive
- Reasonable
- Low-cost
- Uncostly
- Worth the money
- Expensive
- Costly
- Extravagant
- Overpriced
- Pricey
State or Condition
- Good
- Acceptable
- Excellent
- Satisfactory
- Superb
- Great
- Bad
- Awful
- Unacceptable
- Unsatisfactory
- Dreadful
- Dilapidated
- Squalid
- Substandard
You can say:
My house is beautiful and affordable. I bought it ten years ago when real estate prices were cheap. Today, its condition is still good. I am happy I did not buy a dilapidated and substandard house because I would be in trouble right now.
Miscellaneous
Your house can have something special about it. This can be worth mentioning. Was the previous owner a celebrity? Did you build it on top of a hill overlooking a beautiful lake? Do people say that it is haunted?
What else can you say about a house?
Further Exploration
Download PDF Files:
- Rooms in a House, Learn English With Africa, May 2019
- What is your House Like, Learn English With Africa, May 2019
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