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Hi everyone, welcome back to English with
Max. In this video we're going to look at
some household vocabulary.
Some of these words
are quite basic, but some of them are
relatively advanced. They're words that
all native speakers know,
but that non-native speakers
often only learn if they've lived in an
English-speaking country
for a long time
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Okay so we're going to start
in the bedroom. Here we have
a bed. I'm sure you know the word "bed",
but you might not know the parts of the
bed. This here is the bed frame.
So the part that you
put the mattress on
is the bed frame. This here is
the mattress. Mattress.
On top of the mattress we have
a bed cover. Some people would call this
a quilt, but I call this a bed cover.
Under that we have some blankets.
These are blankets.
And then we have some sheets.
This is the top sheet. You can also call
it a flat sheet. And then
on the mattress we have a fitted sheet.
It's called a fitted sheet because it
fits onto the mattress. Here we have some
pillows. Be careful - some people get these
mixed up. So this is a pillow and this is
a cushion. A cushion
is something that's normally
decorative um...
Yeah, you might have cushions in your
lounge room and also other
parts of the house. Um... a pillow is
something that you sleep on.
Where you put your head.
Um... what else? Oh yes. This on top
of the pillow is called a pillow slip.
In Australia pillows are normally
rectangular. Where I lived
in Europe normally they
had square pillows and
it took me a long time to
adapt. I don't think I did actually adapt.
I think i managed to find
rectangular pillows somewhere.
This is cat hair
because Monty likes to sleep
on my bed. During the day - not at night.
At night you go into your
little room, don't you?
We lock you away! Now this here
is a painting. Here we have
a regular chair, but I've also put a...
I've put a towel on the chair,
because Monty likes
to scratch this material,
and yeah... That stops him from doing that.
This is the window. This part here
is called the window sill.
The window sill.
Uh okay... These are blinds.
You can just say "a blind" if it's
all the one piece, but when it's in
pieces like this we call them "blinds".
These are vertical blinds. I think it's
obvious why we call them that. Now this
thing here is a bedside table.
Bedside tables don't always look like
this - they don't always have a drawer, for
example, but if you have a small table next to a
bed, it's called a bedside table.
This is a drawer, like I said.
Um... be careful because in British English
we don't pronounce the ER
at the end. We just say "drawer".
Emm... Here we have my glasses
and the glasses case.
This is a glasses case. Here we have a
little cloth. Any little piece of material that
you use to clean something
is usually called a cloth.
Here we have a clock.
This is an alarm clock. I don't like to
use my phone... I know lots
of people use their phones,
but I don't like having my
phone in my room at night
so I use an old-fashioned alarm clock.
Here we have some tissues. And this is
a lamp. The part on the top here -
this part just here - is called the
lamp shade. Lamp shade.
Here we have a light switch.
A light switch.
Here we have some pictures
and this part on the outside
is called a frame, or a "picture frame"
if you want to be specific. And here we
have my very sexy winter dressing gown.
This here is a door.
I'm sure you know the word "door", but
here's some more vocabulary
related to doors. The part on the outside
is called the door frame. The door frame.
This thing here is a door knob.
A door knob. Yes, the K in "knob" is
silent. And these things here
are the hinges. One hinge. Two hinges.
Down here we have some cables. You can
also call these
cords. So here is the cord
from the computer and this
long one here is an extension cord.
You can also call it an extension
cable. And the thing joining them
is called... this piece of plastic here...
this is called
a double adapter. A double adapter.
This here is my computer desk.
Here we have some earphones.
This is a keyboard.
Keyboard. That's the computer -
That's not just the screen.
The computer is
all in there. This is a mouse.
And we often put a mouse on a mouse pad.
This is a mouse pad.
And here we have a coaster. A coaster is
something that you can put a drink on.
This is another chair. Again,
I'm sure you know the word "chair",
but this is an office chair. Office
chairs don't all look the same,
but generally they have
a comfortable seat,
normally they spin and
they're usually on wheels, so you can
have lots of fun in long hallways.
And here we have a cork board.
It's called a cork board because this
material here
is cork. A cork is also
the thing that goes in
the top of a wine bottle,
because, traditionally at least,
those are made of cork.
On the cork board we have
some pins. This here is called
a push pin.
This is called a thumb tack. It's called
a thumb tack because normally we use our
thumbs to push them in.
And down here we have some weights.
If you want to get big strong arms like me,
you can lift some weights.
This behind me is the wardrobe.
You could also call this a cupboard or
cupboards, but the word
"cupboard" is a bit more
general. For example,
you have cupboards normally in the
kitchen and sometimes also in the bathroom.
A wardrobe normally just has
things like clothes and shoes.
How are you going, Monty?
Having a nice day?
Now we are in the kitchen.
This here is a microwave. Ours is quite
an old microwave. How long have
you had this? About 30 years? Yes.
(Yes.) Oh I didn't mention this before.
This isn't my house, this is
my parents' house.
Okay, so that's the microwave...
Here we have some paper towel and this
is the stove. You could also call this
a cooktop. This is an electric
cooktop, but some people have gas
cooktops or
gas stoves. This up the top
is the range hood. Range hood.
Um... over here we have some utensils.
Um... "utensils" is a general word for
things like this that we use in the
kitchen, like wooden spoons and spatulas.
This here is a pot holder -
for getting things out of the oven or
picking up hot pots.
I'll put that back later. Down here
we have some pots. Those are pots.
Here we have a hand towel.
This is for drying hands and this is a
tea towel which we use for drying
dishes and cups and cutlery, things like
that. I don't know why we call it a tea towel
but, that's the name. Here we
have the oven. And this is a
toaster oven. We don't actually have
a traditional toaster. If we want to make
toast, we use a toaster oven.
These are crumbs, because we
need to clean the kitchen. And this is
a fridge. The long word is
"refrigerator", but most people just say
"fridge". The top part here is
the freezer. The freezer is
where you put things like ice cream,
ice cubes and frozen vegetables.
On our fridge we have lots of magnets.
If you put um... if it's a magnet that goes
on a fridge, then you can
call it a fridge magnet.
These are fridge magnets. Here we have
a chart about dangerous spiders
because we live in Australia.
This here is a fruit basket.
A fruit basket. At the moment
we have some apples,
some passion fruit,
some mandarines, and a papaya.
This is a timer. Some people
use their phones these days, but lots of
kitchens still have
timers. This is
a cutting board. You can
also call it a chopping board.
This one is made of marble,
so it's quite heavy.
This area here is called
the bench top. Most kitchens have
a couple of bench tops.
So this area here is also called
a bench top.
This here is a coffee pot.
As you may have noticed, this isn't
actually coffee. We use it for tea, so we
use it as a tea pot. This thing
here is a knife sharpener.
So it's something you use to sharpen knives.
That's the sink and this is the dishwasher.
And one more thing for the kitchen:
this is a calendar.
We are now in the laundry. This is also
Monty's room, so if you see any
mess, it belongs to Monty.
This here is a washing machine
This one is a top loader,
or a top loading washing machine.
It's called that because you
put the clothes in the top.
Machines that open on the side are called
front loaders or front loading
washing machines. This here is
a mop. A very simple word: mop.
Hello Monty.
That noise that you can hear is Monty eating.
This thing here is not a mop,
this is a broom. Broom.
Down here we have a bucket.
Bucket. And this
on the ground here is a mat.
That is also a mat.
Here we have... can you see it? Here we have
the clothes dryer, or more simply
the dryer. This is
a laundry basket and
in the laundry basket we
have some pegs. So one peg,
two pegs. Here we have an
ironing board. An ironing board.
This is an iron.
Be careful of the pronunciation (I did an
entire video on this)... This isn't "airun".
In British English we say "iron".
And this is a clothes hanger.
You can also shorten it and just say "hanger".
This door here is called a screen door.
because that part there is a screen. And
we have a lot of screen doors in
Australia to keep the flies out.
This thing here is Monty's bed.
And these are Monty's little friends.
That's baby Frank.
This little thing here is called
a doorstop. It's called
a doorstop because
it can stop the door. This here
is for our cat Monty. It's
called a climbing frame.
We got this for Monty because he's an
indoor cat and this keeps
him a little bit amused.
Behind me we have another type
of door. This is a sliding... it's noisy...
this is a sliding door.
Because it slides. Here we
have a table. This is a dining
table. These are chairs, but if
you want to be specific, you can
call them dining chairs. Here
we have some more coasters and
these are placemats,
so this is what you put
plates and bowls and things like that on.
Over here we have a curtain.
Be careful of the pronunciation.
I know it looks like
"cur-tayn", but we pronounce it "curtain".
And this is something that you will find
in most Australian homes.
This is a fly swatter.
We are now in the lounge room.
You can also call it
a living room. I'm now standing
in front of a wall unit. This big piece
of furniture made up of
lots of little shelves and
cupboards is called a wall unit.
Now on the wall
unit we've got lots of bits
and pieces. These sorts
of things are called
ornaments. You can also call
them knick-knacks.
Generally speaking,
a knick-knack is something that's perhaps
a little cheaper and an ornament
is often a little bit more
expensive or a bit classier.
You can use them interchangeably, but
normally people use them like that.
So, for example, you might
call this an ornament and this
probably a knick-knack. This
is called a figurine. A figurine
is like a small statue
or a sort of doll.
These here are candle holders.
If you don't know what a candle is,
this is a candle, but obviously you'd
put smaller ones into these.
Here we have a photo frame.
This is actually me when I was um...
going to the formal at the end
of high school. So yeah... the thing
on the outside is a photo frame.
Here we have some books.
Um now some vocabulary related to
books. This here is... oops.
I hope no one was reading that...
Um... this is a bookmark.
This part here is called the spine,
just like the spine in our back.
The spine of a book. The part on the outside
altogether is called the bookcover.
That there is obviously the television.
Normally we don't say "television",
though. Usually we just say
"TV". This here is a dvd
player a dvd player. A DVD player.
And that is a VHS player.
Yes, we still have one of those.
Now we have a couple of heaters.
We don't need these throughout the whole
year - here where we live we really just use
them in winter. And we don't
use them at the same time.
We did that once by accident
and all the lights went out.
This here is a fan heater.
A fan heater. And this is an oil heater.
Over here we have some more
coasters. And this is a globe.
This thing here is called
a liquor cabinet. It's... uh...
where we keep alcohol. And this is Frank's
favourite part of the house. This here
is the couch. You can also call it
a sofa and you can also call it
a lounge. We have a cover
on our couch, so this is a couch cover.
Here we have some more cushions and a
blanket. The material covering this floor is
called carpet. This is carpet.
Carpet is countable and uncountable,
so you can say "a carpet" or
some carpet. If you have a small
piece of carpet, we would call that a rug.
Here we don't have carpet.
Here we have tiles.
One tile. Several tiles.
Here we have some bricks. One brick.
Several bricks. And this is our doorbell.
This is a more traditional doorbell.
Most people nowadays have
electronic doorbells that have a little button.
Thanks very much for watching, everybody.
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It would make Monty very happy.
See you next time, guys.
This little thing
down here is a doorstop.
Okay, Monty. So this is when Monty gets angry.
We didn't do anything. What's wrong with you?
Okay. We'll... we'll go now. We'll...
we'll go now. We'll leave you, Monty.
