Vocabulary: Moving house

Vinsight Adverbs of manner and comment

1Last summer, Holly lived in a tent for three months. Complete the interview with the correct form of the words in the box. 

You need to use normal letters and capital letters correctly in this task.

MOVE
• lucky
• surprising
• unfortunate
• easy
• quick
• helpful

• 1'Hi, Holly! So, was it difficult to put up the tent?'

  'Not at all. I did it . It wasn't hard. Anyone can do it.'

• 2'And did it take a long time to put it up?'

  'No. I did it . It only took twenty minutes.'

• 3'Was it comfortable to sleep in the tent?'

  'Yes! , I slept all night every night. I didn't expect that!'

• 4'And did you have enough food?'

  'Oh, yes. , there was a shop very near the campsite. It was open all day.'

• 5'What about when it rained? Did you get wet?'

  'Yes! , we got very wet. There was a hole in the tent!'

• 6'Were people at the campsite friendly?'

  'Oh, yes. They were very kind. They  gave us advice about cooking and camping.'

Vinsight Compound adjectives

2Complete the compound adjectives with the words in the box. There are two words that you do not need. Then match 1−6 to sentences a−f. 

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• full
• open
• modern
• two
• labour
• eight
• old
• semi

• 1an  -fashioned bedroom

• 3a  -storey house

• 5an  -plan kitchen

• 2a  -time job

• 4a  -saving device

• 6a  -detached house

• aRichie starts work at nine and finishes at five every day.

  bIt's very big with a cooker, a fridge and a long dining table.

  cAll the furniture is from the 1930s!

  dIt's a pretty house with two bedrooms upstairs.

  eDon't wash the plates, just put them in the dishwasher.

  fWe can hear our next-door neighbours through the wall!

V Houses and homes

3Match each person to the types of home below. 

I'm old and I can't walk upstairs.

I'm a traveller. I can't stand staying in one place.

I'm Richard. I was the King of England 900 years ago.

I live on the top floor. The view is great!

I'm very rich and like to live somewhere which is large and luxurious.

I live in the country. My house is small and very old.

• block of flats
• caravan
• mansion
• bungalow
• castle
• cottage

V Houses and homes

4Choose the correct words. 

In England, until the early nineteenth century, most ordinary people lived in small ¹cottagesmansions in the countryside. However, during the industrial revolution, thousands of people moved to big cities, like Birmingham and Manchester, and started living in crowded houses joined together at the side and at the back. They were ²terraceddetached houses, and people called them back-to-backs. They were usually two-³planstorey buildings. Of course, they were very different from modern-⁴daytime homes. There was no running water or central heating, and the toilets were outside. The people who lived in back-to-backs didn't have ⁵semilabour-saving devices like washing machines. ⁶SurprisinglyUnsurprisingly, it wasn't an ⁷easyeasily life for people in those days. Personally, I think we're ⁸luckyluckily to live in the twenty-first century!

5  Imagine you are opening the front door of the place where you live. Walk in and describe it. Speak for no longer than one minute.

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