Vocabulary: Moving to a New Home
Moving to a new home
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Moving to a New Home
Learn 10 useful moving words, practice them in real sentences, and train your pronunciation.
How to use this lesson
👩🏫 For Teachers:
Teach this unit in 20 minutes by guiding students through the word table first.
Have learners compare practice answers in pairs, then check them together as a class.
🎒 For Learners:
First, read the word table carefully and test yourself with the quick memory tips.
Next, solve the 16 practice exercises and record your voice in the shadowing section.
Word table
Study the 10 words below grouped by the 3 steps of moving house.
| Word | Meaning | Common collocations | Word forms | Example sentence | Memory tip |
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| cardboard | Heavy, stiff paper used for making packing boxes. | cardboard box, heavy cardboard | – | Put the books into a strong cardboard box. | Think of a "hard board" made of paper. |
| bubble | A tiny ball of air inside plastic wrap to protect cups. | bubble wrap, plastic bubbles | – | Wrap the glass cups in bubble wrap. | Say "pop!" like popping soap bubbles. |
| helper | A person who helps you do hard work. | need a helper, good helper | help (v) | My brother is our main helper today. | Take "help" and add "-er" for a person. |
| truck | A big vehicle used to carry large furniture. | moving truck, big truck | – | The moving truck carries our beds and tables. | Picture a big trunk of a car that grew huge. |
| Word | Meaning | Common collocations | Word forms | Example sentence | Memory tip |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| carpet | A soft thick cover on the floor. | soft carpet, clean the carpet | – | The living room has a clean warm carpet. | Think of a "car" parked on a soft "mat". |
| neighbour | A person who lives in a house next to yours. | friendly neighbour, meet the neighbour | neighbourhood (n) | Our new neighbour waved at us this morning. | A person who is "near" to your door. |
| porch | A small covered area outside the front door of a house. | front porch, sit on the porch | – | We left two small plants on the front porch. | Sounds like "door" + "bench" outside. |
| Word | Meaning | Common collocations | Word forms | Example sentence | Memory tip |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| unpack | To take things out of boxes and bags. | unpack boxes, unpack the kitchen | pack (v) | I will unpack the boxes in my room first. | Opposite of "pack": "un-" means open it up. |
| explore | To walk around a new place to learn about it. | explore the town, explore the house | – | Let us explore the park near our house. | Sounds like "explorer" walking into new places. |
| decorate | To add pictures, lights, or paint to make a room pretty. | decorate the room, decorate walls | decoration (n) | We can decorate the walls with photos. | Think of cake "decorating" with sweets. |
Practice
Solve these 16 practice questions from easy to hard.
Collocation matrix
Match each first word to the word that usually follows it.
1. Which word goes with cardboard?
2. Which word goes with bubble?
3. Which word goes with moving?
4. Which word goes with front?
Gap-fill with word bank
Complete each sentence with one word from the bank below.
5. Leo is very strong, so he is our best ____ today.
6. Put each glass cup inside ____ wrap before you close the box.
7. We should take off our shoes because the floor has a new clean ____.
8. When we arrive, we will ____ the boxes and put our plates in the kitchen.
Choose the word
Choose the word that makes the best sense in the sentence.
9. Next weekend we will buy some posters and lamps to ___ the living room.
10. A kind ___ brought us warm tea when we moved in next door.
11. The driver parked the big ___ in front of our new apartment building.
12. Do not leave the wet umbrella on the dry ___ in the hallway.
Word-formation
Fill in the blank using the correct related form from our word table list.
13. My sister offered to ____ us carry the light boxes into the bedroom.
Use the verb form of "helper".
14. There is a peaceful park in our new ____.
Use the noun form of "neighbour" for the area.
15. Tomorrow morning we must ____ our clothes before the truck arrives.
Use the base verb form of "unpack".
16. We put colorful paper flowers on the door as a party ____.
Use the noun form of "decorate".
Shadowing
Listen to each phrase or sentence, then tap the record button to speak and practice your pronunciation.
🔹 Practice 4 key collocations:
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____⭐ Pronunciation challenge: 2 tricky words
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____Tip: Put "card" + "board" smoothly together.
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