Description of the big theater. Description of a house in English - example stories and new vocabulary
To figure out How, you need to focus on two things: design there is\are and vocabulary on the topic “my house\flat”. We will touch on both. Also, consider an example of a short story about housing.
How to talk about your home in English simply and without errors?
In order to understand How Right tell about your house in English, it is important to remember and learn to apply the design “there is\are”. Literally translated this is "there is". Sometimes “there is\are” voiced as “available” and this is also true. This design makes a description of the house or separate rooms very simple, since it simultaneously contains a formal subject (there) and verb (is\are). The first thing you must do to correctly formulate a sentence is to understand what comes after the construction - one object or several. The use depends on this is\are .
For example: There is a big window in this room - This room (has) a large window.
There are three windows in this room – This room (has) 3 windows.
Useful words for talking about your home in English
How Can tell about your house in English without knowing the names of the rooms? Pay attention to the picture and check if you know all the words.
1) bathroom - bathroom
2) bedroom - bedroom
3) entrance – entrance, front door
4) living room - living room
5) dining room - dining room
6) kitchen - kitchen
It would be ideal to start the description of the home with general statements about its size, number of rooms, and then move on to listing the furniture in the bedroom, living room and kitchen.
An example of how you can tell about your house in English
Now I propose to pay attention to a mini-story demonstrating How Can tell about your house or apartment in English.
Example
I live in the flat. It is not big and not small. My flat is comfortable. It is on the third floor. I like it very much and my family is happy here. There are two rooms in my flat – a living room, a bedroom and a kitchen. My bedroom is my favorite. It is rather big ad light. There are two windows in this room. There is a bed with a beautiful bedside table near the wall. There is a desk and a chair in front of the windows. There is a green carpet on the floor. We can also see two brown arm-chairs in my bedroom. Above the desk there are several book-shelves. There is not a lot of furniture there because I like having a lot of space. What about your flat and favorite room?
Translation
I live in a flat. She is neither big nor small. My apartment is comfortable. It is located on the third floor. I really like her and my family is happy here. My apartment has two rooms - a living room, a bedroom and a kitchen. My bedroom is my favorite room. It is quite large and bright. This room has two windows. There is a bed with a nightstand near the wall. Opposite the windows there is a desk and a chair. There is a green carpet on the floor. We can also see two brown armchairs in my bedroom. There are several bookshelves above the table. There is not much furniture here as I like it to be spacious. What about your apartment and favorite room?
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Hi all! The best way To significantly enrich your English vocabulary for communicating in American is to learn to describe all the objects and objects in your environment or simply seen in the picture. Thanks to previous audio lessons, you have already learned how to describe different types of people. And the topic of our lesson today is “Description of buildings” in English. Roosevelt Towers: Description of the building's exterior in English
Describing buildings or, in other words, the exterior is a very useful skill, especially in a foreign country. So, if you need to find a building and you don’t know where it is, then you need to name its main features so that passers-by can tell you where it is. Therefore, today we will replenish our vocabulary and phrase dictionary by learning to give external characteristics various buildings.
Remember and repeat again Learning to describe others
So, Martin Lerner found himself in one of the unfamiliar American cities, but he really needed to find one building. A description of the signs of the building will help him navigate a foreign city and find what he is looking for:
Receptionist:Do you see that tall glass building? — Do you see this tall glass building?
Martin: The round building? — A round building?
Receptionist:Yes, that round building. - Yes, round.
Martin:The blue glass building? — Blue glass structure?
Receptionist: No. That's the Carter Building. Roosevelt Towers is near there. - No. This is Carter's building. The Roosevelt Towers are nearby.
Martin:I can't see it. - I do not see them.
Receptionist:No, you can’t see it from here. It's behind the Carter Building. - No, you can't see them from here. This is behind the Carter building.
By rereading a fragment of the conversation between Martin and the registrar several times, train your reading skills in English and the ability to visually perceive English text. Then, listening to the audio lesson, work on your listening comprehension skills and American pronunciation skills: /wp-content/uploads/2014/10/russian_english_042.mp3
American is the most widely spoken, widely used and popular variant of the English language. The American language is the language of youth, computers, innovation, international communication, art, cinema and music. Of course, the British version is cleaner and more correct, but be that as it may, American English is used much more often today. Join us!
Description of the exterior in English
When describing buildings, we first of all pay attention to its general appearance - the number of floors, the color of the walls, what material it is made of. Therefore, today we will study mainly nouns and adjectives, since it is with the help of words of these grammatical categories that we call attention to the characteristics of buildings, that is, the exterior. A convenient table with appropriate vocabulary will help you remember a lot of new information.
| Description of the building | |
| Phrases | |
| It (the building) cannot be missed/impossible to miss | You can't miss it |
| What kind of building is it? | What does it look like? |
| I can't see it | I can't see it |
| Nouns | |
| quarter | block (in the city) |
| church | church |
| corner | corner |
| floor, floor | floor |
| Insurance Company | insurance company |
| side | side |
| floor/floors | story/stories (of a building) |
| tower | tower |
| yard, street | outdoors |
| Receptionist (person) | Receptionist |
| Verbs | |
| Build, build | to build |
| see | to see |
| Adverbs | |
| also, too | either |
| often | often |
| Preposition | |
| near | next to |
| Adjectives | |
| average | average |
| brick | brick |
| glass | glass |
| Lost | lost |
| another | other |
| round | round |
| stone | stone |
| square | square |
| wood | wooden |
Apply your knowledge in practice: train your skills in describing various surrounding objects in English using words from the table.
A couple of years ago my family and I moved into a new house. It is a nice two-storeyed brick building with a green roof and a tall chimney. The house is surrounded with a spacious garden where we plant fruit, vegetables and flowers.
The ground floor of the house is much busier than the first one. Here you can find a hall, a large living-room with a fireplace, a cozy dining-room connected with a kitchen, a bathroom. The unique feature of the ground floor and the real pride of our house is its winter garden where tropical kinds of plants and flowers grow all year round. We should be grateful to our mother for this garden which is the most beautiful corner in the whole house. Undoubtedly, she has a green thumb.
The first floor is a calm and quiet place. There are three small bedrooms, a library, a bathroom and a balcony upstairs. The library is equipped with lots of bookshelves, two comfortable armchairs, a desk and an office chair. In the bedrooms there are beds, wardrobes, mirrors. When the weather is fine we bring chairs and a table to the balcony and enjoy warm evenings outside.
A couple of years ago our family moved to a new house. It's a nice two-story brick building with a green roof and a tall chimney. The house is surrounded by a spacious garden where we grow fruits, vegetables and flowers.
The first floor is much busier than the second. Here you will find an entrance hall, a large living room with a fireplace, a cozy dining room connected to the kitchen, and a bathroom. A unique feature of the first floor and the real pride of our house is the winter garden, where all year round tropical species of plants and flowers grow. For this garden, which is the most beautiful corner of our house, we should be grateful to our mother. Undoubtedly, she knows how to grow plants.
The second floor is a calm and quiet place. Upstairs there are three small bedrooms, a library, a bathroom and a balcony. The library is equipped with many shelves, two comfortable armchairs, a desk and an office chair. The bedrooms have beds, wardrobes, mirrors. When the weather is nice, we take the chairs and table out onto the balcony and enjoy the warm evenings outdoors.
This material has prepared descriptions three various buildings - the Moscow Kremlin, the Bolshoi Theater and Peterhof.
Description of the Kremlin
The Moscow Kremlin was built in 1482-1495. It is located on the high left bank of the Moskva River, where the river Neglinnaya flows into it.
Just as the White House in Washington, the Kremlin in Moscow is the official residence of the President of the Russian Federation.
If you look at the Kremlin's plan, you will see that it is an irregular triangle with the area of 27.5 hectares.
From the south of the Kremlin there is the Moskva River, in the northwest there is Alexander Gardens, and in the east there is Red Square.
The present red walls and towers of the Kremlin were built in 1485-1516. At the top the wall is decorated with the teeth in the form of a swallow"s tail. On the outer side the wall is smooth and the inner side of the wall is framed with arched recesses for reinforcement and facilitating the construction. In the Kremlin there are five palaces and four cathedrals.
Along the walls there are twenty towers. The tallest tower is the Troitskaya Tower. New Year is traditionally greeted by the Russians with the chimes of the Spasskaya Tower.
Translation
The Moscow Kremlin was built in 1482-1495. It is located on the high left bank of the Moscow River, where the Neglinnaya River flows into it.
How The White house in Washington, the Kremlin in Moscow is the official residence of the President of the Russian Federation.
If we look at the plan of the Kremlin, we will see that it is an irregular triangle with an area of 27.5 hectares.
The Moscow River flows from the Kremlin to the south, the Alexander Garden is located in the northwest, and Red Square is in the east.
The real red walls and towers of the Kremlin were built in 1485-1516. The top of the wall is decorated with teeth in the shape of a swallow's tail. On the outside the wall is smooth, and on the inside it is decorated with arched niches to strengthen and lighten the structure. There are five palaces and four cathedrals on the territory of the Kremlin.
There are twenty towers along the wall. The highest is the Trinity Tower. New Year Russians traditionally greet the chimes on the Spasskaya Tower with a chime.
Description of the Bolshoi Theater
The Bolshoi Theater is one of the largest in Russia and one of the most significant in the world opera and ballet theaters. The theater is located at the Theater Square in Moscow.
It was founded in March 1776 by prince Pyotr Vasilievich Urusov. However, the theater has survived several fires, and the modern building is a child of an architect Joseph Bové.
Joseph Bové actually carried out the project of the winner of the contest for the design of the new building of the Bolshoi Theater – Andrei Mikhailov. However, this project was recognized to be too costly. Bové also revised the design project, while improving it significantly.
The new building is different from previous ones with its monumental grandeur, commensurate proportions, and harmony of architectural forms, and richness of the interior.
The Bolshoi Theater is a compact rectangle in plan with an extended forward portico with eight columns from the Theater Square. The façade is decorated with a large sculptural group – Apollo in a chariot with three horses – and is “looking” at the Theater Square.
In the middle of the front part of the building, there is an entrance to the theater with grand staircases, the main foyer, a five-tiered audience hall and a stage. Side parts of the building are divided into three floors and are reserved for other rooms of the theatre; besides, there are located entrances to the top tiers.
The present theater building has gable roof with frontons.
Translation
The Bolshoi Theater is one of the largest opera and ballet theaters in Russia and one of the most significant opera and ballet theaters in the world. The theater is located on Teatralnaya Square in Moscow.
It was founded in March 1776 by Prince Pyotr Vasilyevich Urusov. However, the theater survived several fires, and the modern building is the child of the architect Osip Bove.
Osip Bove, in fact, carried out the project of the winner of the design competition for the new building of the Bolshoi Theater - Andrei Mikhailov. However, this project was considered too expensive. Beauvais corrected the project, while significantly improving it.
The new building differs from the previous ones in its monumental grandeur, proportionality of proportions, harmony of architectural forms and richness of the interior.
The Bolshoi Theater is a compact rectangle in plan with a forward portico with eight columns from the Teatralnaya Square side. The facade is decorated with a large sculptural group - Apollo on a chariot with three horses - and “looks” at Theater Square.
In the middle part of the building there is the entrance part of the theater with grand staircases, the main foyer, a five-tier auditorium and a stage. The side parts, divided into three floors, are reserved for other rooms of the theater; in addition, they also house the entrances to the upper tiers.
The current theater building has a gable roof with pediments.
Description of Peterhof
The palace and park ensemble of Peterhof was founded by Peter I in 1705 on the southern shore of the Gulf of Finland.
The Grand Palace is the main building of the palace and park ensemble. The construction of the palace began in 1714 and ended in 1755. The author of the project is Francesco Bartolomeo Rastrelli. The main architectural style is Elizabethan Baroque.
The view of the facade of the Grand Palace from the Upper or Lower Park is impressive, but we must admit that the palace itself is quite narrow and is not as big as it looks. The palace is a three-storey building of almost three hundred meters in length.
Anyone who hears the word “Peterhof” immediately associates it with fountains. These fountains are located in the Lower and Higher Parks of the palace and park ensemble of Peterhof. Experts say that the scale of the fountains of Peterhof exceeds the scale of the fountains of the French Versailles. The Lower Park complex has more than 150 fountains and 4 cascades, and in the Upper Garden fountains there are only 5 fountains and one cascade.
The most famous fountains are “The Grand Cascade” and “Samson Fountain”.
Translation
The palace and park ensemble of Peterhof was founded by Peter I in 1705 on south coast Gulf of Finland.
The Grand Palace is the main building of the palace and park ensemble. Construction of the palace began in 1714 and was completed in 1755. The author of the project is Bartolomeo Francesco Rastrelli. The main architectural style of the building is Elizabethan Baroque.
The view of the facade of the Grand Palace from the Upper or Lower Parks is impressive, but we must admit that the palace itself is quite narrow and not as large as it seems. The palace is a three-story building with a length of almost three hundred meters.
Anyone who hears the word “Peterhof” immediately associates it with fountains. These fountains are located in the Lower and Upper parks of the Peterhof palace and park ensemble. Experts say that the scale of the fountains of Peterhof exceeds the scale of the fountains of French Versailles. The Lower Park complex has more than 150 fountains and 4 cascades, and the Upper Garden has only 5 fountains and one cascade.
The most famous fountains are the Grand Cascade and the Samson Fountain.
