Short answers
1. Home and neighbourhood vocabulary
A. Match the words and definitions:
- flat — B
- house — F
- room — C
- neighbour — A
- noisy — D
- tidy — H
- share a room — G
- personal space — E
B. Example:
- I live in a flat with my parents.
- My room is tidy.
2. Present Simple grammar
- I live in a flat with my parents.
- My sister shares a room with me.
- We have dinner together every evening.
- I don’t like it when neighbours make a lot of noise.
- My parents do not allow us to stay up late on school nights.
- Do you have your own room?
- Our building has a small garden.
- I don’t always agree with my brother.
- We try to keep our flat tidy.
- My neighbour does not play loud music after 10 p.m.
3. Logic riddle
- Who lives in a flat? — Leo
- Who has a noisy neighbour? — Leo
- Who shares a room? — Mia or Emma; the clues do not show one exact answer.
4. Writing task — 114 words
At home, my brother and I share a room, and this sometimes causes a conflict. He often leaves his clothes and books on the floor, while I like the room to be tidy. I feel annoyed because I cannot find my things, and my brother feels that I complain too much. I think we need a simple rule. In my opinion, each of us should keep one side of the room clean. Could we put our clothes in separate baskets? Why don’t we make a cleaning timetable? Let’s tidy the room together every evening for ten minutes. This solution is fair because we share the work. We also have more personal space and feel calmer.
Key steps and checks
- In the Present Simple, he/she/it takes -s/-es: shares, has, plays.
- With I/you/we/they, use the basic form: live, have, try.
- After do/does/don’t/doesn’t, the verb is always basic: doesn’t play, not doesn’t plays.
- In the riddle, Emma is not the person with a noisy neighbour. The person lives next to Mia, so it is Leo. Leo is not in a house and cannot share a room because the clue says that person is a girl; therefore, Leo lives in a flat. The last answer needs one more clue.
