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AT HOME

New Furniture 新家具(上)

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Hello everyone,

Welcome to Let’s Talk in English. My name is Garrett.

And my name is Esther. Today, our topic is "At Home."

That's right! What do you find at home?

Well, maybe some new furniture. That is the title of our lesson today.

Let’s talk about those words first.

If something is new, it means it is not old; you have not used it before.

But what is furniture?

Well, furniture is some of the bigger things you might find around your house, like chairs that you sit on, a sofa, a cabinet, and even the bed you sleep on. In your home, you will have lots of different pieces of furniture. Yes, we use the word piece to talk about different kinds of furniture.

Exactly.

Furniture is something that we use all the time, and sometimes it can be fun to get new furniture—furniture that's bigger or nicer.

Well, friends, let’s learn more about this topic in today’s reading.

Do you like new furniture?

You can get some for your house or apartment. A new bed and a new dresser for your bedroom are nice.

The bed can be big or small.

You may want a new sofa and big chairs for your living room.

A new bookcase is nice, too.

But furniture can be expensive. Can you afford it?

Thanks so much, Esther. Yes, those are some good questions to ask when you’re looking for new furniture.

We will explore these questions today in our conversation and try to hunt and seek for the answer to our “Find It” question:

What does James need for his bedroom?

Listen carefully to find the answer now.

Let’s go to Sonya for today’s keywords.

Julie對James的新公寓很好奇，所以問他有沒有照片可以看。

Do you have any pictures of your new apartment, James?

名詞 apartment 就是公寓。

James給他看了照片，並說明他的臥室還需要買新的床和五斗櫃。

I need a new bed and a new dresser for my bedroom.

名詞 bed 就是床，而名詞 dresser 就是放衣物的五斗櫃。

James還想買新的沙發和書櫃擺在客廳。

I’d also want a new sofa and bookcase for the living room.

名詞 sofa 就是沙發，而名詞 bookcase 就是書櫃。

Do you have any pictures of your new apartment, James?

Yes, I do. See, I’m moving next month.

How exciting! A new place is always fun.

It is, but I need new furniture.

What do you need?

I need a new bed and a new dresser for my bedroom.

No problem! You can get those in many places.

Today we start with Julie asking James a question. Julie asks,

Do you have any pictures of your new apartment, James?

Now, there are many different kinds of places you can live in. An apartment is one of those. It’s different from a house.

A house is much bigger, and it’s usually not connected to the places where other people live. An apartment, though, is a big building that lots of different people live in. Right? Apartments may have many floors, while houses usually only have one, two, or three floors.

And James, we find out, is going to move to a new apartment next month.

Yes, so he is getting ready. He is getting excited.

Julie says, "A new place is always fun."

It is fun moving to a new apartment or new home. James tells us, though, that he needs new furniture.

I remember this every time I need to move. I need to think of what sorts of furniture or other things I will need to get ready. Otherwise, it won’t be comfortable moving into that apartment.

Earlier, Gara explained what furniture is.

There are the big things in our home, like our bed, and our drawer or a cabinet.

But we can’t add an s to the word furniture.

Sonya, can you help us with this?

James下個月要搬新家，他說：“可是我需要新家具。”

But I need new furniture.

家具是不可數名詞，所以前面不可以加不定冠詞，復數的字尾也不能加 s。

可以用 some furniture 表示。

若要指出一件家具的時候，要用單位量詞 a piece of furniture 來說。

例句：

This furniture is very comfortable.

這件家具非常舒適。

She gave me some of her old furniture.

她給了我一些她的舊家具。

再一句：

He bought two new pieces of furniture last week.

他上週買了兩件新家具。

Thank you, Sonia. Well, Julie is a good friend, and she wants to know what James needs—what kind of furniture does James need for his new apartment?

And what do we need, friends?

Well, we need to find the answer to our Find It question.

What does James need for his bedroom?

He needs a new bed and a new dresser.

Friends, did you hear the words bed and dresser? Well, those are two different kinds of furniture, right?

So we really know what a bed is—it’s that piece of furniture that you sleep on.

You put what’s called a mattress on that bed, and of course, your blankets to keep you warm.

But a dresser is a little bit harder.

A dresser is different from a closet, right?

A dresser is where you can put your clothes in, and there often are cabinets you can pull out and put your clothes inside.

Yeah, there might be drawers in it that you pull out.

A dresser is not built into the walls, but a cabinet or a closet might be built into the house.

You can’t take it with you if you move away.

And Julie tells James that it’s not a problem—no problem.

She says that you can get those in many places.

She’s talking about getting a bed and a dresser, right?

So when you move to a new place, you can plan on one big shopping day—go to a furniture store and look at all the choices they have.

Choose what styles you want and what colors.

Well, one tip for James, though: He needs to make sure his bed is big enough because James is very tall.

That’s a good point—measure things before you buy, friends!

It’s time for a quick break. We’ll be right back to talk about furniture just after this.

Let’s talk in English, let’s talk in English every day!

Every day, that’s the way!

Welcome back!

We’ve talked about some kinds of furniture people have in their bedrooms, like your bed and your dresser. You might have a desk as well.

Garrett, do you have a desk in your bedroom?

Hmm, I do not. There is not enough room in my bedroom for a desk, but I do have a separate room with a desk in it.

Right, and in the living room, we also have different kinds of furniture, like your sofa.

Let’s continue and learn more.

I also want a new sofa and bookcase for the living room.

That’s a lot of new furniture!

I know, but all of my furniture is really old.

Can you afford all those things?

Not all at once.

I can buy the bed and dresser first, then I can wait to buy the other things.

Good idea!

We continue, and James tells us what kind of furniture he wants for his living room.

Yeah, he needs more furniture than just those things for his bedroom.

He’s also going to need a new sofa and a bookcase.

Wow! Let’s talk about the word sofa.

People will sit on a sofa in the living room.

Sofas sometimes have pillows, and a lot of people like to watch TV or use their phones when they sit on the sofa.

Another word for sofa is couch.

These look like chairs; they are also things you sit on, but a sofa or a couch is longer than a normal chair, so multiple people can sit on it, more than one, right?

And what’s a bookcase? Well, it comes from two words—book and case.

A bookcase is a case or a place where you can put lots of books.

Sounds like James likes to read, so he needs a bookcase.

I would agree! Sometimes, though, you have a bookcase, but you put things that aren’t books on it.

We would still call those a bookcase.

Well, James sure does need a lot of furniture!

And James tells us he needs new furniture because he says, All of my furniture is really old.

That means the furniture he has now in his apartment is too old.

That’s why he wants to get new furniture.

Oh, I know what he means—All my furniture is really old, and hey, that’s today’s calendar phrase.