My flat
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My flat

I would like to tell you about the place I live in. I will tell you about my flat.

I live in a two-room flat in a five-storey apartment block. My house is quite old and everything needs repairing. My flat is on the fourth floor and faces the backyard and the next five-storey house.

When you open the door you appear in a short and narrow papered hall; to the left there you will see a guest coat rack hanging on the wall and next to it there is a large wardrobe with hooks for top clothes, shoe rack, a mirror, a telephone table and a shelf on the top for hats and umbrellas. On the floor there is a lino and a rug. Opposite the wardrobe there is a bathroom door.

If you open it, you appear in a small bathroom with yellow-colored tiled floor and white tiled walls. On the left wall there is a small bathroom case with shelves and mirrors, we usually keep there some bars of soap, nail polishers, night and day creams, tubes of toothpaste and other things. To the right, exactly near the door there is a flush toilet with a red lavatory seat. To the right of it there is a shelf stuck with shampoos, shower gels and air refreshers. Opposite the door there is a small bath with a curtain and at the right wall there is a sink with a mixer tap. Next to the bath and flush toilet there are two rugs. That is all you can see in my bathroom.

When you leave the bathroom, you appear again in the hall and face the wardrobe. If you turn right, you will see a lamp and under it a picture of wolves hanging on the wall. If you turn right once again, you appear in a narrow corridor with a polished parquet floor and papered walls. To the left there will be a bedsitting room and at the end of the corridor there is a kitchen. Let’s go there.

To begin with, the floor in the kitchen is tiled and on the walls there are special waterproof wallpapers. The kitchen is very small, so there is not much furniture and modern electric appliances. If we speak about furniture, I can mention a cupboard on the right wall, a kitchen table with storing shelves under it and a dining table with three stools. Above it on the wall there are shelves for storing grocery and hooks for kitchen towels. At the right wall near the window there is a gas cooker with an oven and a special container under it for storing frying-pans, casseroles and sauce-pans. Next to the gas cooker there stands a kitchen table with a cupboard above. Next to it there is a sink with a mixer tap and above it there is a dish drainer in a cupboard. Above a dish drainer there is a shelf for drying cups and mugs. Opposite the sink, to the right of the door there is a fridge with a freezer all covered with different souvenir magnets from cities and countries I have been to. On the fridge there stands a microwave oven. On the window sill there are some houseplants. That is all I can tell you about my kitchen.    

When you leave the kitchen, you appear in the corridor and to enter a bedsitting room you should turn right. There is no door in the room, the entrance is marked with curtains. The bedsitting room is the largest room in my flat, there is polished parquet floor and papered walls. On the floor there is a big carpet that covers the space from a sofa to a TV set. To the left of the entrance there are two big wardrobes stuck with clothes and linen. Opposite the wardrobes at the wall there is a bookcase and wall unit stuck with books, tea and dinner sets. Between the wardrobes and bookcase there is a sofa that is usually laid out with a brown cover. If you look right, you will see a big window with houseplants on the sill and a balcony with ropes for drying clothes in the summertime. To the left of the window there is the TV set on a special table and a DVD player. On the right wall there are five bookshelves and under them there are two coffee tables with stereo system, newspapers and magazines. That is all I can say about my bedsitting room, let’s go to my room.

To enter my room you should go through a bedsitting room. When you enter my room which is smaller than a bedsitting room because of the closet at the left end of it, you see a room crummed up with furniture. To the left of the door there are two chairs which we use when we gather in the evening in the bedsitting room to have dinner. Next to the chairs there is a chest of drawers and next to it there is one more chair. Above the chest of drawers there is a carpet on the wall with pictures made of solved puzzles. At the left end of my room there is a door leading to the closet which contains an old wardrobe at the left wall, three shelves at the right wall and a bookcase between them. The closet is crummed up with travel bags, suitcases and old things which we can’t get rid of. To the right of the closet door, opposite the wall there is a wardrobe and on it there are two bookshelves. Next to the wardrobe opposite the door there is a laid-out sofa. Next to it near the window there is a short bookcase which has a small TV set and a stereo system on it. Above the bookcase on the wall there are five bookshelves with books, CD and DVD disks. Opposite these shelves at the right wall of my room next to the door there is a computer table with a PC. The window is covered with yellow blinds that make my room lighter.

So you can see that I live in a small flat, but I love it very much. The only thing I’d like to change is a lay-out – I hate it that to enter my room you have to pass through my parents’ room. But unfortunately it is impossible to do. That is all about my flat.

Questions:

1. What kind of house does the person live in?
2. How many rooms are in the flat and where it is situated in the house?
3. What do the rooms face?
4. What kind of walls and floor are in the hall? Is it big, narrow, wide or long?
5. Name all the items of furniture that are in the hall.
6. Describe the bathroom. Is there a washing machine?
7. What items of furniture and electric appliances are in the kitchen? Is there a dishwashing machine and microwave oven? What is special about the fridge?
8. How many shelves are in the bedsitting room?
9. What is on the floor next to the window?
10. How many wardrobes are in the bedsitting room?
11. Is there a closet in the flat? If so, is there enough space to stand or it is crummed up with furniture and things?
12. What is situated in front of the door?
13. What is hanging on the wall?
14. How many houseplants are in the room?
15. What is the main drawback of the flat? Is it possible to change?