Can-Do Task: Describe Your Home or Room

Your Task

Describe your home or your room. Write 6–8 sentences: where it is, what rooms or furniture it has, where things are, and what you like about it. Then describe it out loud, as if you are showing a friend a video of your room.

Before You Start

  1. Choose: your whole home or just your room.
  2. Make a quick drawing and label the rooms or furniture.
  3. Write in four steps: where → rooms/furniture → details with prepositions → your opinion.
  4. Use there is/are at least three times and two different prepositions.
  5. Read your text aloud, then say it again looking only at your drawing.

Useful Language

  • Where: I live in a flat / house in… · It’s on the second floor.
  • What: There is a… · There are two… · There isn’t a… · There aren’t any…
  • Where things are: next to · opposite · between · under · above · in front of
  • Opinion: My favourite room is… because it’s… · I love / like…

Model Answer

Read this example first. Then write your own; don’t copy it.

I live in a small flat near the station. It’s on the fourth floor. My room isn’t very big, but it’s bright. There’s a bed next to the window and there’s a desk opposite the bed. There are some books and a lamp on the desk. My clothes are in a wardrobe behind the door. There isn’t a TV in my room, but I have a small radio. I love my room because it’s quiet and I can study there.

Check Your Work

Tick each box before you finish:

  • ☐ I said where my home is.
  • ☐ I used there is / there are (and a negative).
  • ☐ I used at least two prepositions of place.
  • ☐ I used some or any correctly.
  • ☐ I gave my opinion with because.
  • ☐ I described it out loud.

Go Further

Write three questions to ask a friend about their home (Is there a garden? How many bedrooms are there? What’s your favourite room?) and answer them for your own home.

Connect

Review there is/are, prepositions and some/any with our Grammar Quiz (A1).

Try our Grammar Quiz →

CEFR A1 — Spoken Production: I can describe where I live. Writing: I can write simple sentences about my home.

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