FREE IELTS Speaking practice online: Topic - HOMES and HOUSES

Hello and good morning, hello, I'm Keith from IELTS

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successfully, it's very nice to see you Thursday, July 16, and today we're here obviously to learn English. We're going to talk about the

topic

of

homes

,

homes

, and

houses

and the places where we live. accommodation flats

houses

apartments what's the difference right all these things we're going to see today I'm really looking forward to it lots of exciting vocabulary and ideas so a quick welcome to all of you hello abi lashes ashraf from sana sassy ricaraj gulsafe it's a pleasure to see you here steve roger good morning lydia senior miat emily it's a pleasure to see you too and chu malika ashraf vishnak and mr void has come out of the void to the class welcome junaid and tamar and many more of you great to see you all here so when arrive, I just saw a person from Facebook.

How good to see you here. Excellent, so today's

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, in case you're joining us right now, is this, primary home, dear. watson no houses like in sherlock holmes no no no no no um I say holmes do you remember the old sherlock holmes movies, I mean the ones with basil rathbone in the 1950s 60s in black and white absolutely brilliant of course today Today Holmes has been played by Benedict Cumberbatch and he also does a very, very good job, but I like those old black and white films where almost the entire film is taken in a single take.

Great, so it's not Sherlock Holmes, but houses where you live, houses and houses, what's the difference between a house? and a house is the same in some languages ​​it's the same word right you only have one word um in English a house a house is a building right I mean you can have a brick house a stone house a wooden house but it's just a house a house is a little more correct, it's the building, but it's also more about the emotion, the feeling, the family, the place where you live, so it's not just a physical thing, it's a little more correct, so we can say that Manchester is my home, um or wherever I go, that's my home, home is where the family is, things like this, it has a kind of emotional feeling about it, yeah, great, exactly as Susan points out exactly the house where you live and a house is a building where no one lives sometimes very good susan excellent very very nice yes home sweet home as Luke says we say that home sweet home and this is interesting let's say the house from Antana is the right hardware and home is the software, it's not that nice, I like that and also marianne says home.

It's where your hearts belong Marianne How many hearts do you have? It could be for all of us. Brilliant. Thank you very much putchkar for your wishes. We have things like this. Now I feel nostalgic. That probably doesn't mean you are. you're missing the building and the walls, but you're probably missing family law or things you do well, so some nice expressions, very, very good homes and the home is the heart of the family. Well, from the study, so a home is a heart of a family or the heart of a family, home is where the heart is, all these bright, good, pleasant, so let's talk about homes and to start, of In fact, yesterday in the Facebook group, I asked you what type of accommodation you are looking for.

They live there, so let's start there. I have a lot of your ideas, but maybe you guys can start because especially a lot of you may not be on Facebook, you're on YouTube, what kind of accommodation are you living in right now? You can rent it, you can buy it, but what is it? What type of accommodation? Well, let's take a look. A cup of coffee. I'm practicing my American slang. A cup of coffee. Okay, some good answers and some good questions. Okay, so let's do me. little guy, let's take houses, right, let's leave the question there and take me to fly to the right, it's great, isn't it?

It can fly without moving, so quite a few people live in an apartment, okay and an apartment is even better, an apartment in English. and England we tend to use these same rights, they really are the same, they have the same meaning. Now you can live in a condo, which is a larger building with many different apartments. Great, let's see where else Julia lives in an independent house with her parents. very good, there is a good question from kiem a house with four hides a house with four levers, I think you mean a house with four levels, oh, a house with four levels, correct, correct levels is what you mean by the house with four levels, yes, or floors, I mean, wow, that's it.

Awesome because most houses have two levels, up and down, but if you have four levels or four floors, it's absolutely great. Um Lydia is in a good old house. My house is in Silent City. My house, so tuna. that question here house my house is in silent city my house is in silent city both are correct if you write correctly, of course, it is house house um both are possible, okay, now puma rented two-bedroom apartments, that's nice two-bedroom apartments rooms using the participle big rented house throw three-story building lovely right three stories in the United States they tend to spell it in American it's not a language it's in American English they tend to spell it like in stories like this? well in british english actually um normally we would write it like this we would put an e on the right a three story building okay cool this one is nice currently im living in my neighbor's bungalow i hope your neighbor knows about it um the your neighbor's bungalow, of course a bungalow is a single-story or single-level building, right, it's a house, but with a single story it's great, so all kinds of things are great.

Let me go back and share with you some of them. I'll just write a few things. my whiteboard, here we go, so what kind of accommodation do you live in? Well, people have said a house, someone said a detached house, a flat or an apartment, so we can talk about a flat, an apartment or a block of apartments, or a block. of bungalow apartments only has one level, a semi-detached house is a bit like a semi-detached or a duplex, I think they are used much more in the United States, in England we would call it semi-detached, therefore, semi-detached is two houses, one here and one here . and there they are connected, they are attached, in reality it is a semi-detached, but we say semi-detached house, semi-detached, so they are two houses that are joined and I think that a duplex is the same, you have two doors and they open to two different living areas, If I remember correctly, if my memory serves me correctly, when I lived in the United States many, many years ago, a high-rise building, so different types of accommodation, let me show you this, let me show you this through pictures, right ? easier and we also have a terraced house with proper technology from sha lab which mentions a terraced house now a terraced house is where you have 1, two, three, four, five houses together in a row, yes, the receiver, the apartment block It's the entire building. of apartments, so the apartment is a single floor, but the whole building is called an apartment block.

Well, come back. someone asked. someone asked. I live in a patio. It would be good? This. I live in a patio. It's probably not very good for you because the yard. It's like the garden, so I hope you don't live in the yard because it's like the area outside the house, okay? What is the house that was rented to students? Student accommodation. Often it's just a rented house, we'll call it that, just call it. a rented house, we often say I live in student accommodation, let me line that up, yeah good nice words, duplex is the house with two levels, ah okay, two levels, two doors on the right, two different levels , upside down, backwards, up, stairs, down, duplex, I think it's pronounced like duplex license.

You played? I think it's a duplex, but maybe in the United States it's different. Student accommodation. Thank you. Very good. Thank you so much. Someone has that student accommodation. You can also call it student accommodation. There you go. Student accommodation. It's nice, Sophie, yes. Independent apartment. well, that's good, excellent, a castle. Do you really live in a castle? Great, so let me show you there are some questions about what all of these are, let me show you here, I'll just put these in, I'll just go. through some homes as a real estate agent, let's get rid of Keith and let me put this here so you can see it, so you might want to talk about the location, so you might want to say in the country, right, I live in the country, um .

How can I move this forward? No, I don't accept that you might mean in the city. I live in the city. Some people say slap bang in the city or right in the center of the city. You might want to say you live on the boardwalk. waterfront, it would be nice to look at this waterfront house or maybe you live in the suburbs or on the outskirts, so the suburbs are normally outside of the city center, but still within the city it's kind of between the countryside and the city center. Great, um, we. We also have what else we have for architecture, so you can let us know, maybe you want to talk about a brick house like the one above, a wooden house made of wood or a concrete house, a little like this one. one at the bottom, you can see the concrete house you can almost see it and someone asked me what is an apartment block, the bottom one is an apartment block, the bottom one is a block of flats or an apartment. block um, it could be a condo, condos are usually more luxurious, more expensive, it's a much nicer word, condo, okay, cool, um, guys, so, bungalows, someone was asking what a bungalow is, this is a bungalow and it's just a building, it's one floor, so there are no stairs. it's just a building, a single storey bungalow, there are many of these in England, a flat or an apartment, so it's just a unit within the building, okay, someone was asking me how I live in a single storey house, How do you say this bungalow, my friend, it is a bungalow. yeah, okay, the difference between level floor and floor, to be honest, they are all used the same, right, here we use them the same, the level, the floor, I live on the second floor, I live well, I live on the second floor, it is common.

I live in a two-story building. My house is on the second level. The level is probably less common. I think floor and floor are more common. Great, so the whole building is a block of flats or an apartment building. Like I said, you can see it. at the bottom, I think let me take it away, we can talk about a four-story apartment block, mind you, it's not four stories, there's no reason, it's a four-story apartment block because four stories is an adjective here is an adjective . phrase and that's why it never has a plural adjectives never have plurals properly in English, so a four-story apartment block or a four-star apartment building, then we mention single-family houses, so this is a single-family house, the on the left is independent.

This is a two-story house or a two-story house, the one on the right is semi-detached, so there are two houses joined together. Two families would very well live in the semi-detached house if they were all together, which would be semi-detached. Excellent and if we go up the market, look at this, there is a villa with its own pool, so a villa is usually like a bungalow, but it is much more luxurious, more expensive, it could have two floors. We often think of villas in the countryside or or on the beach things like that you also have a cabin now in England we have many cabins and this is basically a house in the country the cabins in England normally have this type of roof, right, it is a roof thatch, it's a special roof and that's what we would call a pretty old-fashioned cottage, okay, cool, and then maybe if you're Prince Andrew or Prince Harry and Megan maybe you live in a mansion or maybe your home Ideal could be a mansion if that's where you want.

To go good, great, well, so let me go back, there's a lot of things there, a lot of different things. I hope you can see the different types of houses, of course, as many of you say, depending on your country, culture and environment, you can have different types. of houses, um, there are other people who mention a studio, it's usually for a person who lives in their own studio, a rented apartment, a hostel, a hostel is where you don't live in a hostel, normally you wouldn't, it depends on the situation. but hostile, we usually think of something temporary, just for a few days or a few weeks, usually a dorm yes, especially if you are in student accommodation, you might be in a dorm, okay, lots of ideas, ask aside the bed, what is a side of the bed?

So sitting in bed again is usually where you only have one room, in a bigger house or a bigger apartment, and basically it's like a studio, you only have one room where you have everything together, usually your bed, your kitchen, a small shower, all in one. space a nice little bed sit down Are you saying that when asked this question I should also describe the location? If not, you should, it's up to you, if someone says where you live, what type of accommodation, no, you don't have to say where. It is, but there's some additional information for you, okay, okay, lots of ideas from you, let's move from that right to ah, so I'm sure I'veand they also got the right answer, of course, hey, let's do it, it means ordinary. small special ordinary cozy some good answers in the comments section seven six five four let's go quickly yellow orange go very good good you guys are pretty good well made ordinary we can use it for a house for one person for a book a movie ah it was an ordinary movie, well, it was a good book, but very ordinary, what a great phrase, you can use it with all kinds of things, right, an ordinary shot, excellent, who is it? at the top manas has taken the lead, in fact he has completely changed the last question, guys let's do it, which one is the strange one, which one is different from the others, this is quite complicated to help you think about the categories or the groups that we talked about.

Do you remember the decoration of the furniture in the rooms? It's not bad at all. There were many of you. In fact, I realized who said yellow dresser. Well, it's different because it's three words, dresser, but if we're thinking about the meaning of the right, armchair, table, dresser. drawers all the furniture the oven is equipment or accessory it is not really furniture excellent the moment of truth who is today's winner kate middleton third hello kate good to see you here man ass well done fantastic brilliant brilliant last week we had the presidents we had the prime ministers today Not last week, Tuesday, today, the royal family is here.

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