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An English house
Textbook: p. 12
GoalDescribe floors and rooms of a house with “There is / There are”.
New words
ground floor · birinchi (pastki) qavatupstairs · yuqorida, yuqori qavatdadownstairs · pastda, pastki qavatdablock of flats · ko‘p qavatli uy
Explanation
In English houses the lowest floor is the ground floor and the floor above it is the first floor, so the English first floor is our second floor. A two-storey house has two levels; a block of flats is a building with many flats; upstairs and downstairs show the level. To say that something exists in a place use There is (one) and There are (many): “There is a kitchen downstairs. There are three bedrooms upstairs.” Question: “Is there a bathroom?” — “Yes, there is.” / “No, there isn’t.” Plural: “Are there two toilets?” — “Yes, there are.”
Worked examples
“Tom’s house”. Dear Rustam, I live in a two-storey house in Leeds. Downstairs there is a kitchen, a living room and a small toilet. There are three bedrooms and a bathroom upstairs. My room is between my sister’s room and the bathroom. There is a small garden in front of the house. Please write about your home. Tom
— Is there a garden? — Yes, there is. — Are there bedrooms downstairs? — No, there aren’t. They are upstairs.
Class activity
“Which room?”: one partner thinks of a room; the other finds it with “Is it downstairs? Is there a bed in it?”
Practice
1
Which floor do the English call the first floor?
The floor above the ground floor.
2
There is or There are: ___ three bedrooms upstairs.
There are
3
Make a question: a garden / in front of the house
Is there a garden in front of the house?
4
Why “There are two bathrooms” and not “There is two bathrooms”?
Bathrooms is plural and plurals take There are.