Heating and lights · Home and routines
central heating
home heating system
A system that heats the rooms in a building from one main source.
This vs that
The central heating is on.
The heater is on.
Hear it in real life
Are you cold?
A bit. Can you put the central heating on?
The central heating stopped working just as the temperature dropped.
Which sounds natural?
Psst — which one would you actually say?
'Central heating' is the normal household term for this system.
The mistake everyone makes
Not: We use centre heating in winter.
Say: We use central heating in winter.
The established term is 'central heating', not 'centre heating'.
Build it
How it fits in a sentence.
central heating; put the central heating on; turn the central heating off
Phrases to borrow
More for talking about heating and lights.
put the heating on
It’s freezing, so I’m putting the heating on.
leave the light on
Please don’t leave the light on when you go out.
Heating and lights words
Home and routines · Heating and lights: the words around “central heating”.
Your turn: say it out loud
The flat has central heating.
Say it out loud two or three times, until it feels like yours.
central heating
home heating system
“The central heating stopped working just as the temperature dropped.”
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