Hello everyone! This is Andrew again
from Crown Academy of English and today
we are going to do a lesson on
the bedroom. So you're going to learn
lots of words of items
in the bedroom. Let's get started!
So,
here we are inside a typical
bedroom and
the first thing that we can see here is of course
the bed. So this is the bed
in the middle of the room.
And this type of bed
is called a "double bed" because
two people sleep in this bed.
Okay, so a double bed
is for two people and
a single bed is for one person.
And here...
at the end of the bed
is a pillow. So
we use a pillow... we put our head
on the pillow when we go to sleep...
And in fact, there are
two pillows. There is a pillow on the left
and a pillow on the right. And
also, in this bedroom, we can see
there is a wardrobe. We use
a wardrobe to put our clothes in.
So we store
clothes in a wardrobe okay.
Here, we can see on this picture,
this is called the headboard. A headboard.
So this is the board at the...
at the top of the bed behind
the pillows. So this is used
as decoration. It goes between the wall
and the bed.
And on the left, on
both... usually on both sides of the bed, we put
a bedside table. A bedside table.
And we use the bedside table
for... we we can often put
things on the bedside table.
For example, a book
or maybe a glass of water or an alarm clock.
And so here, we can see another view
of the bedside table. So
here in fact there is a bedside table
on both sides of the bed.
This bedside table is made out of wood and
on it, there is a lamp. So there is a lamp on
the bedside table.
And also, there is an alarm clock. An alarm clock.
So we use an alarm clock so that we can tell the time.
So that we can know what time it is...
and also so that we can wake up
in the morning. The alarm clock
rings an alarm in the morning to wake us up.
This alarm clock is a DIGITAL alarm clock.
But we can also have a different type of alarm clock... like
this one. This is an older, mechanical alarm clock.
And here, on this picture, again we can see
the pillows. So there's a pillow
on the left and a pillow
on the right. And also,
behind the pillows,
above the headboard,
there is a picture....ok.
So that is a picture...
and in fact there are several
pictures and these
are pictures of butterflies. To the right
of the bed, above
the bedside table, there is
another lamp. So this is
a lamp on the right... and here,
we can see on the bed, in black,
that is a sheet. So this
is a sheet. And we put a sheet
on the bed to protect the bed.
And so here, on this bed, we can see
that there is a duvet.
So a duvet is
in fact what is inside
the red and white cover.
So in fact here,
there is a duvet .. and
a duvet cover. So
the duvet cover is
the red and white thing
that we can see. And
the duvet is inside the duvet cover.
So here, we cannot in fact see the duvet.
It is inside the duvet
cover. Listen carefully
to how we pronounce "duvet". We do not
pronounce the letter "t" at the end. Okay, it is a silent
"t". So we say "duvet"
So here, this is another view
of the duvet. So this
is what is inside the duvet cover.
This is the duvet.
This is the white item that we put
on the bed to keep us warm at night.
There is another word for "duvet".
We can also call a duvet a "quilt"
A "quilt". Now I think the word "quilt" is used
more in... in Britain, in England.
It is more of a British
English word. And duvet
is more international... okay... but they both
mean the same thing. Duvet or quilt.
Both words are correct.
Here is a blanket.
This is a red blanket... and
we put a blanket on the bed, often
in winter, when it is cold and we put it
on top of the duvet to keep us warm.
And here.. there is .. this is another view
of the bed and here,
you can see that we have pulled
the duvet to one side.
So we have pulled the duvet
to the middle of the bed... and here we can see
the "sheet". So this is
the sheet which goes on the bed,
to protect the bed. And this is
a white sheet.
So this is a sheet: S H E E T.
And, we put the sheet on a mattress.
So this is the mattress.
So this is what the bed looks like
without the sheet. Okay...
we call this a mattress.
Here, in white, this is the pillow.
So, the pillow is where we put our head
when we go to sleep... and
we put the pillow inside a pillowcase.
So the pillowcase is the item
which goes outside of the pillow.
It protects the pillow and it decorates
the pillow. As you can see,
the pillowcase has the same
design as the duvet case.
So the duvet case and the pillowcase
are the same. So we can say
they are MATCHING. They are MATCHING.
because they are the same.
Here, we can see a single bed.
A single bed is a bed for one person. One person
sleeps in a single bed... and
again, this is the headboard.
Here, we have some bunk beds. Bunk beds.
Bunk beds are two beds with
one bed on top of another bed.
So here, this is the top bunk bed
and this one is the bottom bunk bed. And
to be able to get to the top
bunk bed, we use a ladder. So we use
a ladder to climb up to the top bunk bed.
And so here, we can see a wardrobe.
A wardrobe. We put clothes
inside a wardrobe. So we use
a wardrobe to store our clothes.
On the front of this wardrobe, there is a mirror.
We use a mirror to look at ourselves -
- to look at our clothes.
Okay so a mirror.
We use a mirror to look at ourself.
And this wardrobe
has two doors. There is a door here
and there is a door here.
And on the front of both doors, there is a handle.
So we use a handle to open the door and to close the door.
And here we are looking inside a wardrobe.
And at the top, there is a clothes rail, clothes rail.
So the clothes rail is the metal bar which goes across
the top of the wardrobe.
And on the clothes rail, we use a hanger.
So we put hangers on the clothes rail to hang our clothes on.
So we hang clothes on the hanger.
This is called a hanger
or sometimes we can call it
a clothes hanger. Ok.. and
on this hanger, there is a white
shirt and
at the bottom of the wardrobe, there are
some trousers. In English,
when we talk about trousers, even if there is just
one, we use the expression
"a pair of trousers" Okay..
so now I am wearing a pair of trousers.
So we say the word "pair"
for one pair of trousers.
And here, this is a shoe rack.
Shoe rack. We use a shoe rack
to store our shoes.
And again, this is a pair of shoes. So here
there is one pair of brown shoes,
and here, we have one pair of black shoes.
So here, this is called a chest of drawers.
So this big piece of white furniture. This item
is called a chest of drawers.
And, the chest of drawers has three drawers.
So, this drawer at the top,
then there is a drawer in the middle and a drawer at the bottom.
And we can see the top drawer is currently open.
On top of the chest of drawers, there are some
candles. So this is a candle.
And over in
the corner of the room, we can see
there is an armchair. An armchair
is a comfortable chair for one person.
Here.. this object here...
this big, white object...
we call this a dressing table. A dressing table. So very often...
a dressing table is used by a lady or a girl who
is putting on makeup, for example, or maybe drying her hair.
So always on a dressing table, there is a table and
also a mirror. There is usually a large mirror
on a dressing table. And here, in front of the dressing table, is a chair.
And hanging on the wall, we have a clothes hanger.
This is a hanger.
And finally, we have a lamp. In fact, there are
two lamps - one on both sides of the dressing table.
So, on this photograph, in front of the window,
there are some curtains.
So we use curtains to decorate
the front of the window and also
to stop light coming into the room.
Again, we use the expression a "pair
of curtains". A "pair of curtains"
because there are two curtains.
One on the left and
one on the right. And
we attach curtains to a curtain rail.
So the curtain rail is
the bar which goes across the top,
above the window. And here,
on the right hand side, to the right of
the curtains, we can see there are
some hats. And the top hat,
this one, is a grey hat.
Here, this is a cot. A cot
And a cot is for babies
or very very young children. So babies
sleep in a cot. And a cot has vertical
bars down the side and
very high sides to prevent the baby from
leaving the cot.
So a cot is to help keep a baby safe.
And here is a teddy bear!
A teddy bear! So a teddy bear
is for a baby or for a child...
or even for an adult! You never know :-)
So a teddy bear is a toy.
And finally, something else that we often use
when we are in the bedroom is
a "pair of slippers". A "pair of slippers"
So slippers are comfortable shoes
which we wear indoors. So they are comfortable
shoes which we wear inside the house.
So, there we are! That's the end of the lesson.
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my name is Andrew from
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