Our House

A1 · Home · about 1 min · 71 words · Difficulty ●○○ Gentle

Take a short tour of a small house in Cedar Falls.

Tap a bold word in the text for its meaning.

Read

Our house is in Cedar Falls. It is small but nice. There are four rooms: a living room, a kitchen, and two bedrooms.

My bedroom is blue. There is a bed, a desk, and a big window in my room. The kitchen is my mother's favorite room. She cooks dinner there every evening.

There is a small garden behind the house. My father reads the newspaper in the garden on weekends.

Vocabulary

kitchen — the room where we cook food

She cooks dinner in the kitchen.

bedroom — the room where we sleep

My bedroom is blue.

garden — land behind or near a house, with plants

There is a small garden behind the house.

window — an opening in a wall that lets light in

My room has a big window.

dinner — the main meal of the evening

We eat dinner at 7:00.

Key Expressions

Reading Strategy — Draw the house in your head

When a text describes a place, make a picture in your head, room by room. A picture helps you remember where things are.

Questions

Each question trains a named skill. Read the explanations after you check your answers — they show you where the answer lives in the text.

Mini Review

  • The house has four rooms, and there is a small garden behind it.
  • Picture each room as you read — the picture helps you remember.
  • Useful words: kitchen, bedroom, garden, window, dinner.

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