🏢 What's Your Apartment Like?
Leo's family is moving! Today you will name the furniture in a home (sofa, closet, stove, refrigerator…), describe a house or an apartment ("It has three bedrooms. The kitchen's painted yellow."), say big numbers (1,200 = twelve hundred) and read a real apartment ad: 3 BR, 2 BA, NP, nr metro!
Looking For A New Apartment
Leo has a new baby sister, so the family needs a bigger apartment. Leo helps his mom read the ads. Read the little scene below.
🤔 What's your home like?
🛋️ Furniture And Appliances
Click a card to hear the word. Which room is it in?
📦 The Moving Day Sorter
The movers need help! Put each thing in the right room of the new apartment. 10 boxes.
🏡 Talking About A House Or Apartment
Use What's your … like? or What's it like? to ask someone to describe their home. To describe it, use the verbs have and be.
❓ Asking
- A: What's your apartment like?
- A: I have a new house! — B: Wow! What's it like?
- A: How many people live there?
🏡 Describing
- It has two bedrooms and one bathroom.
- The rooms have big windows.
- The bathroom is next to the kitchen. It's really small.
- Color: The kitchen's painted yellow. (= is painted)
- People: Three people live in the apartment.
✨ The Dream Home Designer
Design your dream home. Your description is written in English for you — then listen to it!
🔢 Big Numbers: Hundreds And Thousands
Prices of houses and apartments are big numbers! Here is how to say them.
No -s after a number: "two hundred" ✅ — "two hundreds" ❌. "three thousand" ✅ — "three thousands" ❌. And in English, we write 1,200 with a comma (in French: 1 200).
🎰 The Number Machine
Move the slider: the machine says the number in all the correct ways.
👂 Price Listening
Listen to the price and choose the right number. 6 prices!
📰 Reading Apartment Ads
Newspapers and websites often charge for ads by the number of lines. To save money, people write short ads with abbreviations. You can guess them from their letters!
🔍 The Ad Decoder
Click the abbreviations to decode the three ads. Then help each family choose the right home! 6 families.
Listen And Repeat!
Click 🔊 Listen to hear the phrase, 🐢 Slowly to hear it slower, then 🎙️ My turn and say it out loud into your microphone!
✍️ Practice Time!
Exercise 1 — True Or False?
Exercise 2 — Complete The Dialogue
Fill in the missing word in each line of the conversation.
🎭 Create & Record: My Home
A pen pal asks: "What's your home like?" Describe your house or apartment: how many rooms it has, where the rooms are, the colors (is painted), the furniture, and how many people live there.
🎙️ Now, Record It!
Read your description out loud like a video message for your pen pal. Then listen back!
🎯 Final Quiz — Homes, Numbers & Ads
Answer 7 questions to test everything you learned in this lesson!