Speak Canadian English with Trish - Home and Living

Explore common home rooms, including the bedroom, living room, dining room, kitchen, bathroom, and study, plus balcony, garden, and basement, and learn their uses for sleep, work, meals, and storage.

Explore common home furniture and essential appliances and electronics, including bed, coffee table, dining table, desk, fridge or refrigerator, dishwasher, oven, microwave, washing machine, vacuum, television, computer, and gaming devices.

Label items in study, living room, kitchen, and bathroom to practice recognizing common home objects, including closet, bed, bookshelf, TV, coffee table, sofa, cupboard, sink, shower, bathtub, and toilet.

Describe your home by answering questions about the number of rooms, a balcony, a bathtub, your favourite room, common appliances, and what you need.

Describe your home by listing rooms, furniture, and appliances using the provided examples, noting preferences like a favorite room, daily habits, and needed items.

Explore common home activities you can enjoy at home, including cooking, reading, exercising, painting, studying, watching TV, throwing parties, playing music, video games, and meditation.

Explore Sarah's home with her family, discovering the rooms, Sarah's favorite fitness room, mom in the kitchen, brother playing guitar, and weekend action and comedy movie nights.

Practice identifying Sarah's home vocabulary, including the fitness room and kitchen, with activities like exercising, playing guitar, cooking, and weekend movie nights.

Learn adjectives describing home and design to express size, age, appearance, and style, using terms like big, small, new, old, cozy, and luxurious.

Describe various homes using adjectives learned in the course, such as spacious, luxurious, minimalist, neutral, retro, and cozy, and share your own opinions on design and living spaces.

Explore location and neighborhood factors, from city center to suburbs, transit access, and on-campus living, and examine how nearby services and recreation shape rental or purchase prices.

Explore key factors when renting or buying a home, including location, size, design, fully furnished options, transportation access, local services, utilities and Wi-Fi, safety, parking, and budget considerations.

Explore Tim's singles studio in the city center, near a subway and shops, as he bikes to a nearby office, uses the in-building gym, and balances high rent.

Tim lives in a singles studio in the city center, bikes to work three blocks away, near the subway, shops, and restaurants, with a gym and pool, and high rent.

Anna and John seek a two-bedroom, fully furnished apartment in a quiet, safe neighborhood with contemporary design, close to an elementary school, one parking stall, and a 2400 monthly budget.

Anna and John seek a quiet, safe neighborhood near a school, with a park nearby as a bonus, and a negotiable budget of about $20,400 per month.

Explore travel accommodations from hotels and all-inclusive resorts to hostels and camping, comparing options for business or personal trips and family vacations.

Practice choosing accommodation based on trip needs, from a three-day business hotel with a convenient location and conference rooms to an all-inclusive resort or air BMB with kitchen for six.

Discover hotel services that vary by location, including breakfast, in-house dining, room service, laundry, and Wi-Fi. Use a concierge for attractions and conference rooms, and arrange parking or shuttle services.

Tim seeks a business hotel near downtown Toronto with a conference room and fast Wi-Fi, prioritizing essential amenities and a decent breakfast within a $300 nightly budget.

Tim seeks a business hotel with a conference room and fast Wi-Fi. He treats the swimming pool as optional, and he pays extra for a decent breakfast.

Anna and John plan a five-day spring break in Hawaii, seeking an all-inclusive resort with accommodation, meals, activities, snorkeling or jet skiing, and airport shuttle.

Identify an all-inclusive resort with accommodation, meals, and activities for five nights. Include shuttle or taxi service, water activities like snorkeling and jet skiing, and laundry as a bonus.

Review core home vocabulary—rooms, furniture, and activities—while exploring housing design adjectives and essentials for renting or buying, plus hotel services and travel accommodations.

Learn to describe rooms, furniture, and appliances using varied vocabulary in this exercise. Practice asking 'where is it' and 'where can I' to improve home and living English.

Identify where items sit—sofa in the living room, closet in the bedroom, microwave in the kitchen, computer in the study—and learn where to cook, sleep, shower, watch tv, and eat.

Explore adjectives that describe home design and the factors people consider when renting a home, then apply them to evaluating travel accommodations.

Explore how people express housing needs and travel choices, from spacious houses and minimalist apartments to fully furnished stays, budgets around eight hundred dollars, hostels, and air BMB options.

Share your own answers by describing your home, counting rooms, naming your favorite room and activity, and outlining rental features, furnishing needs, vacation options, essential services, and posting the video.

Describe rooms, furniture, and daily appliances using travel and hotel service phrases in real conversations. Apply what you learned to describe your home and plan your next trip.