Question Type 1: Basic Description Questions

Preparation Notes

Rural cottage

PAST TENSES!!

thatched roof backyard

Part Two Talk

Right then, I’d like to get cracking by pointing out what type of house it was, and I’d have to go for the house that I was born in, which was a spacious rural cottage in a mountainous area of Northwest Hubei. Actually this was a single storey house with about five bedrooms.

Regarding the theme of where it was located, and the thing that needs to be highlighted here is that it was set in lush fields near a range of mountains near the border with Sichuan Province. Actually it was quite isolated - the nearest town was about l0 km away and the roads were quite bumpy.
Moving forward onto the area of what I liked about it, I would like to explain that although I don’t remember too much about it, the things that have always stayed in my mind are the thatched roof which made it nice and cool in the hot summer months and the communal courtyard that we shared with our neighbors.
Finally then, if there’s time, I could deal with the last question of whether I still live in this house and as already mentioned I was born in this house but I moved out when I was about 5 years old.”