Vocabulary places to live

An area with a wall or bars around it that is joined to the outside wall of a building on an upper level

• ceiling

• balcony

• roof

• staircase

A large building that is divided into apartments

• cottage

• entrance

• block of flats

• terraced house

A house that is joined to the houses on either side of it by shared walls

• detached house

• terraced house

• block of flats

• balcony

A set of stairs inside a building, usually with a bar fixed on the wall or onto vertical poles at the side for you to hold on to

• patio

• floor

• roof

• staircase

A house that is not joined to any other house

• detached house

• cottage

• patio

• balcony

The covering that forms the top of a building, vehicle, etc.

• floor

• ceiling

• roof

• patio

A small house, usually in the countryside

• studio

• cottage

• ceiling

• detached house

The flat surface of a room on which you walk

• ceiling

• roof

• floor

• studio

A system of heating buildings by warming air or water at one place and then sending it to different rooms in pipes

• central heating

• air conditioning

• staircase

• entrance