Home, in this context, is considered to be the house, apartment, etc. where you live, especially with your family, and everything in it.

uk culture: The Housing issue. We reveal a country that is living in the 21st Century, a nation that is adopting modern, energy-saving materials, technology and ideas. See issue

magazine article: Black sheep and the mysterious Uncle Bob. I’m an English teacher working in Russia, and for some reason I really don’t like that classroom topic - Talk About Your Family. Perhaps it’s because everyone studied English from the same book at school. So all the students say, “My family consists of five members. Me, my mother, my father, my brother and my dog…” And so on. As if all families are exactly the same. Read article

magazine article: IKEA. Our journey started in a minibus to Lomonosov underground station. In the open area behind the station we could see about 30 people waiting for a bus to the IKEA shop. This bus is unusual for two reasons – it is free, and it is one of very the few buses in the city that has a timetable. Read article

magazine article: Accidents. We all know that chainsaws are very dangerous - in Britain 1207 people had to visit hospitals after accidents with chainsaws in 1999. However, in the same year, 16,662 people – more than twelve times as many - were injured by their sofa! Read article

word games: the following word games are available for this theme: apartment game | clothes | everyday activities | family | homes (learning ladder) | household appliances | household appliances (hangman) | kitchen | tools | tools (hangman)

story: Names. Naming houses? Naming babies? It's sometimes not as straightforward as it seems ... Read story

story: The Untied Nations. It was the house at the end of the street; the one where nobody wanted to live. Seeing as people from the city didn’t want to live there, the landlord asked people from other countries to live there. At first everything went well, but then the neighbours began falling out. Fortunately, one of them had an idea ... Read story

story: Where Home Is. This poignant story is about refugees in a place where they don't belong. They spend time listening to sad, sad songs and wondering if they will ever go home. Read story

poem: Family poetry. A poem about families sent to us by a user. Read poem

poem: A Glass of Wine. Andrew Motion became the UK's Poet Laureate in 1999. Listen to Motion read his poem and then describe the feelings that inspired it. "It's about sitting in the garden with my wife at the end of the summer, in other words a poem I wrote very recently. Feeling happy.." Read poem

cartoon: "What's on the television tonight?" "Same as always - the ..." See cartoon

cartoon: "You can't come into my nice clean house!" "No, why not?" "Because ..." See cartoon

cartoon: "I assume you've got a very good reason for arriving home like this at 7 o'clock in the morning?" "Yes, I have ..." See cartoon

trivia: the following trivia topics are available for this theme: families

science: cubed. Domestic LEDs: Light Emitting Diodes offer a brighter and safer energy efficient lighting solution. Read story

science: cubed. Intelligent interiors: Designing functional objects that learn to adapt to your personal space. Read story

links: the following sets of links are available for this theme: families

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