Each lesson is clearly stated grammar, vocabulary, and pronunciation aims. This keeps lessons focused and gives students concrete learning objectives and a sense of progress. | A fireplace is the place in the house where you light the fire. A chimney is a hole in the roof out of which the smoke leaves the house. A coffee table is small and usually found in the living room. A bedside table is the small table next to your bed. You open and close the door to leave I enter your house. A gate is a door in an exterior wall for example around a garden. An apartment is the American word for a flat. A sink is where you wash the dishes in a kitchen. A washbasin is where you wash your hands in the bathroom. A town is a place with many streets and buildings houses shops factories etc. A village is much smaller than a town and is in the country. Sometimes it is only a few houses. You meet someone when you see and talk to them for the first time . You know someone when you have already met them. A state school is run by the government and is usually free. You have to pay to go to a private school. Marks for an exam are usually out of 10 or 100. Grades are usually A B C etc. To revise means to study for an exam . look again and try to remember what you have studied previously. To learn means to get knowledge of something. A detached house is a house on its own. A terraced house is joined to several others. A terrace is an area next to a house where you can sit and eat etc. A balcony is a kind of platform built onto the outside of the house with a wall or rail around it. A dishwasher is for washing plates cups etc. A washing machine is for washing clothes. The ceiling is the top part of a room opposite the floor. The roof is the part of a house on the outside which covers the top. The country is the land outside towns and cities where there are trees and plants etc. The suburbs is the area around a city . not the centre where people live. A friend is someone you know and like. A colleague is someone you work with not necessarily a friend . You keep in touch when you see phone or write to a friend regularly. You lose touch when you do not see phone