Rooms and Furnitures

Question 1

Table

At home
- lay/set the table
- get up from the table
- leave the table
- clear the table

At restaurant
- book/reserve a table
- manage to get a table
- be shown to your table
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• reach across the table (to get the salt)
• sit at/around the table
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• set a place (for you) at the table
• kitchen table
• dinner table
• bedside table
• dressing table (a piece of furniture like a table with a mirror on top)
• picnic table

Question 2

Drawer

• look in the drawer
• pull open/out the drawer
• go through/ look through/ search through the drawer
• rummage/rifle through drawers
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• cutlery/silverware drawer
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• at the back of a drawer
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• a tight/ stiff/ stuck/ sticky drawer

Question 3

Chair

• take a chair
• pull/draw up a chair (= to get a chair etc and sit down next to someone who is already sitting)
• lean back in a chair
• get up/ rise from a chair
• jump up from a chair
• fall off your chair
• sink/slump/flop into a chair (= in tired or unhappy way)
• lounge in a chair (= in a very relaxed way)
• collapse in a chair
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• comfy chair
• folding chair
• lounge chair
• swivel chair
• a hard chair
• a barber’s chair
• a rocking chair

Question 4

Bed

• make your bed (= tidy the sheets and covers)
• change the bed (= put clean sheets on the bed)
• put (a child) to bed
• climb into bed
• crawl into bed (= feeling very tired)
• stay in bed (= not get early)
• take to your bed
• Guy had a stomach ache and took to his bed. (= go to bed because you feel ill)
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• be tucked up in bed
• lie in bed (all morning)
• be in bed by (12 o’clock)
• spend (a week) in bed
• have breakfast in bed
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• a spare bed
• an unmade bed
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• the foot/head of the bed

Question 5

pillow/ wardrobe/ curtain

• prop (yourself) up with a pillow
• cry into a pillow
• I was asleep before my head hit the pillow.
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• a hard/firm mattress
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• a fitted/built-in/recessed wardrobe
• hang (your shirt) in the wardrobe
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• open/close the curtains
• draw the curtains (= either open or close them)

Question 6

Bath and Shower

• take/have a bath/shower
• get into/out of the bath/shower
• clean the bath/shower
• run a bath (= to fill a bath with water)
• lie in the bath
• turn on/ off the shower
• the bath overflows
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• a long/quick bath/shower
• a bubble bath
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• bath mat
• bath toy

Question 7

Toilet

• need a toilet
• use a toilet
• flush the toilet
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• toilet paper/tissue
• Toilet facilities are available at the bus station.
• (scrub) the toilet bowl
• (put/left) the toilet seat up
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• a public toilet
• a disable toilet

Question 8

Towel

• beach towel
• dish towel
• bath towel
• paper towel (= a sheet of soft thick paper that you use to dry your hands or to clean up small amounts of liquid, food etc)
• washcloth (= a small square cloth used to wash your face or hands)
• napkin