Furniture

B1 – Intermediate

A house seems complete when it is fully-furnished. For most homes, the essential ones should be enough. There are also people who invest a lot of money and effort in making their homes unique and stylish by buying many kinds of furniture.

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Vocabulary Questions:

  1. What does the word “antique” mean? Use it in a sentence.
  2. What does “chests” mean in this sentence, “ I love going round old houses and looking at all the beautiful sofas and chests and cabinets from hundreds of years ago.”? Give 2 synonyms.
  3. What does the idiom “wander around”mean? Use it in your own sentence.

Discussion Questions:

  1. What are essential home furniture?
  2. What non-essential furniture do you have at home?
  3. Where do you usually buy your furniture from? Why do you prefer to buy from this/these shop/shops?
  4. What is your opinion on expensive antique furniture?

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Discussion Questions:
1. What is essential home furniture?
It refers to the thing related to the furniture that is essential for all homes. I mean basic furniture that is totally necessary for all houses such as tables, sofas, beds, and cabinets.
2. What non-essential furniture do you have at home?
I’m not sure because, I’m not keen on furniture and interior home designs but I think that non-essential furniture could be some kinds of lamps, chests or big cabinets, or antique design tables.
3. Where do you usually buy your furniture from? Why do you prefer to buy from this/these shop/shops?
I usually buy my furniture from two kinds of different shops, on the one side I go to buy furniture from the big brands such as IKEA, where I can buy a lot of different kinds of furniture, but especially the big ones, beds cabinets, and sofas. On the other side, I buy my home furniture in little shops in my town where I can choose from a wide range of antique furniture, new furniture, and small ones.
4. What is your opinion on expensive antique furniture?
I think expensive antique furniture can be considered by most people as art, because there are pieces very valuable, for their antiquity, for their worth, for their design, for their price, and many people research and pay quite a lot of money for these valuable trophies.

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I think expensive antique furniture can be considered by most people as art, because there are pieces very valuable, for their antiquity, for their worth, for their design, for their price, and many people research and pay quite a lot of money for these valuable trophies.

I think expensive antique furniture can be considered as art by most people, because they are very valuable pieces, in terms of their antiquity, for their worth, for their design, and for their price. and Moreover, many people research and pay quite a lot of money for these valuable trophies.

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I think expensive antique furniture can be considered as art by most people because they are very valuable pieces, in terms of their antiquity, worth, design, and price. Moreover, many people research and pay quite a lot of money for these valuable trophies.

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Vocabulary Questions:
1. What does the word “antique” mean? Use it in a sentence.
The word antique mean: “something made in an earlier period that is collected and considered to have value because it is beautiful, rare, and old or of high quality”.
Example: “This antique collection of books is one of the most important pieces of the Barcelona museum”.
2. What does “chests” mean in this sentence, “I love going round old houses and looking at all the beautiful sofas and chests and cabinets from hundreds of years ago.”? Give 2 synonyms.
The word “chest” mean in this sentence: “a commode, a piece of furniture, in this case, antique furniture, from hundreds of years ago”
Another synonym could be coffer or box.
3. What does the idiom “wander around” mean? Use it in your own sentence.
The idiom “wander around” means: “To walk casually around (some place) without any definite purpose or destination”.
Example: “I’m wandering around Barcelona’s city center streets for three or four hours enjoying the heart of the city”.

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