Gateway to the World Students' book Level A2 - Unit 2 - Welcome Home

Oct 1, 2026

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“Welcome Home” is Unit 2 from Gateway to the World Students’ book Level A2, focusing on rooms in the house and household objects and furniture. Activities include matching vocabulary to pictures, completing a short text about tiny houses, and speaking about rooms and bedroom furniture. Listening tasks identify objects described, followed by grammar practice on “There is/There are” with affirmative, negative, questions, and short answers. A reading text, “The Great Escape Lakeside holiday home,” presents themed rooms and game ideas, supported by comprehension true/false questions and vocabulary checks.

LanguageEnglish

CategoryLifestyle

FormatPDF

Pages10

Reading Time15 min

AccessFree to download

Welcome Home

Rooms in the house

Household objects and furniture

Listening: objects described

Speaking: rooms and bedroom furniture

Reading: The Great Escape Lakeside holiday home

Grammar in context: There is/There are

2 WELCOME HOME Vocabulary in context Reading Rooms in the house Household objects and furniture 1 Match some of these words to the picture. 23 Rooms in the house attic • basement • bathroom • bedroom • dining room • garage • garden • hall • kitchen • living room b f 2a Look at the photo and complete the text about tiny houses with some of the words in 1. houses Tiny hasn’t got a (c) – they eat at a small table. The people who live in the house haven’t got a (d) to sit and watch TV together. The tiny house has got a (e) to wash, brush your teeth and have a shower – it’s very small, of course! They like their tiny house, but they spend a lot of time outside. They haven’t got a (f) , but there are trees and countryside near their tiny house. 2b SPEAKING Tell your partner about the rooms in your house or flat. 26 Unit 2 3a Look at the picture in 1. Which of these household objects or furniture can you see? 24 Household objects and furniture armchair • bath • bed • carpet • chest of drawers • cooker • cupboard • curtains • dishwasher • fridge • games console • lamp • light • microwave • mirror • phone • picture • poster • radiator • rug • shelf/shelves • shower • sink • sofa • table • toilet • TV • wardrobe • washing machine • window 3b Complete the table with the words in 3a. Some words can go in more than one column. | Kitchen | Dining room | Living room | Bedroom | Bathroom | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | | | | | | 4 25 Listen and decide which object in each list the person is describing. 1 fridge microwave dishwasher cooker 2 microwave cooker radiator lamp 3 washing machine sink toilet dishwasher 4 bath sink toilet washing machine 5 microwave cooker radiator lamp 5 SPEAKING Tell your partner about the furniture in your bedroom. Try to find five similar things between your bedrooms. Use it … don’t lose it! Reach higher page 144 1 SPEAKING Ask and answer these questions. 1 Do you play board games with friends or family? Which board games do you play? 2 Which board games are popular in your country? 2 Read the article. Are any of the board games you talked about in 1 mentioned in the text? 3 26 Read the article again. Are these sentences True (T) or False (F)? Write the number of the line(s) where you found the answer. 1 Not all the rooms in the Great Escape Lakeside house have got games. T / F 2 The Monopoly room has got unusual furniture. T / F 3 The Dungeons & Dragons room hasn’t got furniture. T / F 4 One of the bathrooms is similar to a hospital because it’s white. T / F 5 You can play games with the cooker and dishwasher in the kitchen. T / F 6 People sometimes practise singing in one of the living rooms. T / F 4 In which room … 1 is it dark? 2 can you watch films? 3 is there a sports game? 4 do you walk on a board game? 5 are there photos of real people? 6 is there a games console? 5 What do the underlined words and phrases in the text mean? Guess and then check in your dictionary. 6 Reach higher page 144 Welcome to the 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 The Great Escape Lakeside holiday home in Florida, in the US, has got a different game in each room! There are 13 bedrooms in the holiday home and all of them have got different game themes. For example, there’s a room with a bed in the shape of Pac-Man™ and you can play computer games on a big TV. There’s also a room with a Scrabble® board carpet and you can win a prize by finding out the secret message on the walls. In the Monopoly® room, the beds look like Monopoly cards and the chairs look like dice. Next to the bed there’s a wardrobe with doors that look like the Monopoly jail. In the Dungeons & Dragons® room, you feel like you’re in prison because there aren’t any lights or windows and the beds are on the floor. There are 11 game-themed bathrooms in the house. The Operation® game bathroom is all white

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What is the main reading text about?

The reading describes “The Great Escape Lakeside” holiday home in Florida, where each room has a different game theme and themed furniture and décor.

Oct 1, 2026

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