living room furniture vocabulary english

hi, guys, and welcome back to www.engvid.com. today,we are doing accommodation, and particularly, london accommodation. what do you do? youcome to london. you need to find a place to live. this could apply to anywhere in the uk.if you don't know someone and have a place to go to, you might need to check out awebsite like gumtree or rightmove.co.uk. now, what we're going to be doing in today'slesson is looking through a couple of different flats, apartments that i found on the internetand talking through the key phrases. and then, we'll talk about useful questions to ask ifyou were to visit a house that you wanted to live in. so i've -- obviously, question no. 1 you haveto ask yourself is how much money can i afford

to give? so london accommodation can be alittle bit expensive, so i gave myself a budget -- "budget" is the maximum i can spend --of 800 pounds a month. so it's quite a lot. what i found was a bedsit, a "cozy" -- meaninga comfortable bedsit -- which was priced at 195pw. that means per week.okay? now, some of the useful phrases i found onthis advert for this particular place was that it was a "cozy" bedsit. so this meanscomfortable. you could also say that it means "small". so the positive is, "mmm. nice andcomfortable." but the negative, "ugh. there's no room." okay? a "bedsit". what a "bedsit" means is that there is a bedroom,but there is no living room. there is no room

for a television, sofas, chairs. it's kindof bedroom, kitchen. okay? so it's quite a small flat. "presented in" -- that's just a load of crap,really. so you kind of just go, "oh, it's in a charming" -- what does that mean? "it'sin a nice -- "period" just means "old". it's in a nice, old building. okay? so it'sa small place in a nice, old building. it has an open plan. that means if i'm lyingin bed, i can see the kitchen. okay? there's no wall between bed and kitchen. so "openplan" means no wall. "fully fitted kitchen" -- so we talk about when a kitchen is "fitted",it has refrigerator. maybe there's a microwave. put your pizza in. heat up some food. there'sa kettle. maybe a dishwasher. i can clean

my clothes -- those kinds of things wouldbe a "fully fitted". so i can do everything i need in the kitchen. a "shared bathroom" -- to "share" -- if ishare my pen with you, then you can use my pen. so if i'm sharing a bathroom, then someoneelse is peeing on the toilet seat, okay? "selected sky channels", so that does notmean all. all -- no. it means the landlord chooses what i can watch on the sky, so typically,one sport channel, and a couple of useless channels that you don'treally want to watch. "the rent includes" -- that means it's 195 a week-- i don't have to spend more on electricity, water, gas, etc.

and then, at the bottom of the advert, itsays "to arrange". that means to organize -- i'm looking at -- because i've got theadvert here, so you know, just scanning through it. "to organize a viewing" -- that means tohave a look around -- "please call -- well, the number is -- what is she called? maria,at 07 55 79 11 636. maria is going to get loads of calls now. sorry, maria. but maybe it'sgood practice for her because she's clearly spanish, so she can practicespeaking english to you guys. "double bedroom" -- this is a slightly differentpart of time. so this place was in earl's court, a nice central part of london. my nextone is in shoreditch. this is like, the super cool, kind of, where artsy people are in,so east london. and here, you have a double

room. that means there is a bedroom -- somewherewhere i sleep. and then, there are other people who i am sharing with. okay? so i'm sharing withother people. maybe there are three bedrooms. now, my key features -- a "feature" is a goodpoint. okay? it has an eat-in kitchen. that means i make my food -- boiling -- i've madea cooking video. you should check it out. so i'm cooking in the kitchen, and then ican eat in the kitchen because there is a table to sit at. so "eat-in" means plustable. hopefully with a chair as well. again, all bills are included. so my pricehere, my price here -- kind of where i looked there. there, 145 a week. so for a month,that's going to be -- what? who's good at math? 580 a month. not too bad. okay? so it'sgoing to be cheaper if you are sharing with

other people, and maybe quite goodpracticing english with them as well. now, this place has numerous windows throughout.that means "a lot of" or "many". yeah? you can see the root. "numero", from the latin,means "number". so there's lots of windows all over the place. "making it full" -- "full"."my glass is full of water." this house is full of natural light. so that means, youknow, light from outside comes in, which is, you know, good, except in winterwhen there isn't much natural light. now, they want something from you. i'll tellyou something. these adverts, many people looking at these adverts and going, "hello.can i come and have a look at your house, please?" so these people are choosing youin london, okay? so what do they want? they

want you -- "you must be" -- okay? an imperative."you must be an easy going person." that means, "yeah. i'm okay. no problems. i just, youknow -- i pay my rent, and i go to work, and i'm cool." yeah? easy going -- no problems,a no problems person. "and sociable", okay? from the same sort of root as "society", meansa collection of people. so if i'm "sociable", i like talking to people. i don't just sitin my room and read my magazine and then go out. i have to be able to talk to people.so very good if you're an esl student. and it says "a pretty", which means -- these arequite english adjectives. "pretty", "quite", "a bit" -- because we like to be polite inour speech. we don't say things, kind of, very directly. so we say, "it's a little bitof a flexible contract." what that means is

you don't definitely have to stay there fora year. you could stay there for a shorter amount of time. now, i'm not going to give this person's numberout because i'm a bit worried about poor old maria over there. but i'm going to give lauraa ring and see if we can go and pay her a visit. back in a sec. oh, hi, there. maria? yes. my name is benjamin.yeah. no. i saw your advert on gumtree. yeah. it looks really nice. i think i'd like tocome and have a look at it. is that okay? right. you've got two swedish girls livingthere? they're single and aged 20. right. okay. that shouldn't be too much of a problem.when would be a good time to come and see

it? monday afternoon. yeah. okay. that worksfor me. that's a good time for me. and how exactly do i find it? where is it? what wasthe address? right. i get out of the tube. i turn left, and it's the third house. i getout of the tube. i turn left, and it's the third house on the right. great. okay. well,i'll see you at 4:30 on monday afternoon. i look forward to it. yeah.okay. bye, maria. ah. she sounds nice. so obviously, we've lookedat our advert, and we think it looks really nice, especially the swedish girls. so wering up. okay? and, "hi, there." tell them your name, you'd like to come and have a look,when would be a good time, how to find it. now, a knock on the door. "hi, maria." i'mat the place. these are some things we might

want to say if we are looking around a flat, ahouse, a bedsit, a cozy bedsit, even. start with small talk. here, in britain, we lovetalking about the weather. "ah. it's been raining all day today." or we like talkingabout the traffic. "the traffic was bloody awful." okay? "bloody awful." that means reallybad. "the traffic was awful." so start with a bid of "small talk". it means a bit ofchat. okay? unimportant conversation. now, you might want to ask about some rules."am i allowed to play loud music? practice my guitar? am i allowed to smoke? am i allowed tocook in the kitchen?" okay. find out the rules. "do i have to share?" again, really usefulverb when we're talking about accommodation. "do i have to share the bathroom with theswedish girls? okay. that's fine." "how much

notice?" if i want to leave the flat, i haveto give my notice and say, "i'm really sorry, maria. i'm going to leave now." normally, theyask you to say that one month in advance. okay? so one month is normal. and theymight ask you to write it down. okay? and if you really like it, if you really likethem all, you say, "when can i move in? when can i move here?" but you say "in". "when canyou move into the house?" but if you don't like it, you would say, well -- because youdon't want to say "no". "no. i hate it. it's rubbish. i don't like it. it's a really nastyflat." you don't say that. you say, "i think i'd like to think about it. yeah. thank somuch." so you don't say "no"; you say, "i'll think about it."

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