Accommodation & Home Vocabulary Do not try and learn this list of vocabulary.
Identify the vocabulary you find useful for answering practise
questions about accommodation and homes.
Record these in your vocabulary notebook and practise using
them regularly.
www.ieltsjacky.com * Important Set 1: Key definitions house – building where people (usually one family) live
- Our house is near the park.
home – place where someone lives, where they feel they belong
- It’s nice to come home in the evening and spend time with my family.
accommodation – a building or set of rooms where someone lives or stays
- Oti started looking for accommodation as soon as her university place was confirmed.
a property – building and the land it is built on
- Our present house is too small now that we have children so we are looking for a new property.
single storey – with only a ground floor level
- My elderly parents are buying a single storey house as they find it difficult to climb the
stairs.
two-storey – with two floors levels
- Sanjay found a lovely two-storey property to rent close to his workplace.
Set 2: Types of home detached house – a house that is not connected to any other houses
- We’d love to buy one of the new detached houses being built near the lake but they’re out
of our price range.
semi-detached house – a house that is joined to another house on one side
- Meena lived in a semi-detached house and could sometimes hear her neighbours arguing
through the adjoining wall.
terraced house (UK) / row house (US) – a house in a row of similar houses joined together
on both sides
- Having a property either side of us means that our terraced house stays warm in winter.
