Accommodation Let’s move on to talk about accommodation. Tell me about the kind of accommodation you live in. Do you live in a house or a flat? Is it a big place? Does the place you live in have many amenities? What do you like about living

IELTS Speaking Idioms: Topic of Home
Get on like a house on fire = get on very well
Become a household/word name = become famous
Offer something on the house = free of charge; such as coffee in a restaurant
Nothing to write home about = nothing special
e.g. This new job is quite normal, it’s nothing to write home about.
Hit home = become fully understood
e.g. It wasn’t until my daughter left home, that it really hit home how much I would miss her. 
IELTS Speaking: Types of Accommodation
Houses  
A detached house
A townhouse – a duplex – a semi-detached (usually two houses together)
A terraced house (one house connected to many others in the same row/street)
A bungalow (a house with only one level) 
A squat (empty building where people start living without the owner’s permission)
A hovel (very small, dirty house or flat in a bad or run-down condition)
Rented accommodation (can be either furnished or unfurnished)
Council or social housing is rented accommodation provided by the state for people who cannot afford to buy their own homes
A Council Estate (U.K.) is a large group of such housing
Flats 
Flat / apartment (a living area within a bigger building)
e.g. a two-bedroom flat
Note: flat and apartment are really the same, you can use either. 
A block of flats (a building that contains many flats)
An apartment block (a building that contains many apartments)
A condominium (a building that contains many apartments) 
A penthouse (a luxury flat at the top of a building)
A high-rise building
High-rise flats/tower block flats are flats in a tall, modern building with a lot of floors.