IELTS Accommodation Vocabulary
В повсякденному житті ми часто обговорюємо наш побут на різних рівнях (питання комфорту, звичаак, традицій), том і не дивно, що це актуальна тема для IELTS. Читайте поскоріше нашу статтю IELTS Accommodation Vocabulary та запам’ятовуйте нові лексеми.
Part 1-style questions
Examiner: Do you live in a house or an apartment?
Callum: Actually I live on campus … In a single room in halls of residence … all first year students are encouraged to do that as they’re close to the university … next year I plan to move intostudent digs in town …
Examiner: Tell me about where you live.
Julia: I live with my parents in the suburbs of Madrid … We only moved in recently … In fact we had a house-warming party just a few weeks ago …
Examiner: What kind of accommodation do most people live in in your city?
Maria: In the city itself the majority of people live in apartment blocks … That’s what surprised me about England … Most people seem to live in terraced houses with lovely back gardens …
Part 2-style task
Describe a house or an apartment you would like to live in. You should say
- what kind of accommodation it would be
- where it would be
- who would live there with you and say why you would enjoy living in this place.
Paolo: I think most people when answering this question would say they’d like to live in a bigdetached house with spacious rooms … views of the countryside and so on … But actually my ideal home would be a lot different … I’ve always loved the idea of having a mobile home … A really expensive one with all the mod cons … so I could live wherever I wanted or at least have lots of holidays and be able to take all my home comforts with me whenever I travelled … I realise this would have to be a second home as I’d need a base …
A permanent address … but the mobile home would be the accommodation I’d find it exciting to live in … I suppose once I settle down and have children I’ll want to get on the property ladder … I’ll be like everyone else … Saving up to put down a deposit on a house or an apartment … I don’t think my family would want to live in a mobile home … But I like to think I’ll still keep that dream home in mind …
Part 3-style questions
Examiner: Is it better to own your own home or to rent?
Ana: I think both have their advantages … living in rented accommodation isn’t necessarily a bad thing … you don’t have a huge debt like you do when you take out a mortgage but I suppose theproperty market offers you an investment for the future … I’m sure that’s why most people preferto own their own home …
Examiner: What options are available to young couples looking for accommodation in your country? Toni: If they want to buy their own home it isn’t easy for first-time buyers … Mortgages are hard to get so most people live with their parents or in rented accommodation … But that can also be very expensive … you often have to pay rent in advance … And if the accommodation isn’t fully furnished you have the expense of buying furniture …
Examiner: What are some of the pleasures involved in making a home for ourselves?
Suki: I suppose it starts with house-hunting, finding your ideal home … Some people enjoy doing up an old property … Giving a property that’s old and tired a new lease of life … Others like making wherever they live feel like home with some home comforts …
Definitions IELTS Accommodation Vocabulary
- (all the) mod cons: technology at home that makes jobs easier such as a washing machine, dishwasher etc.
- apartment block: a large building made up of smaller units of apartments
- back garden: a garden at the rear of the house
- detached house: a house that is not physically connected to another property
- to do up a property: to repair an old building
- dream home: a home you regard as perfect
- first-time buyer: someone buying a property for the first time, especially when taking out a loan (mortgage)
- fully-furnished: a rented property with all furniture included
- to get on the property ladder: to buy a property with the aim of buying another bigger or more expensive one later in life
- hall of residence: a college or university building where students live
- home comforts: things that make a home feel comfortable to live in
- house-hunting: looking for a property to live in
- house-warming party: a party to celebrate moving into a new home
- ideal home: a perfect home
- to live on campus: to live on the university or college grounds
- mobile home: a home that can be moved by a vehicle or one that has its own engine
- to move into: to begin to live in a property
- to own your own home: to have bought the property you live in
- to pay rent in advance: weekly or monthly rent paid at the beginning of the week or month
- permanent address: a fixed address
- property market: the buying and selling of land or buildings
- to put down a deposit: to pay an amount of money as the first in a series of future payments
- rented accommodation: property owned by someone else and for which a person pays a fixed amount to live in
- single room: a room for one person
- spacious room: a large room
- student digs: student accommodation
- the suburbs: a residential area on the edge of towns or cities
- to take out a mortgage: to borrow a large amount of money, paid back over several years, in order to buy a house
- terraced house: a house connected on both sides by other properties
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