wall

Common expressions

• paint a wall
• cover a wall with (pictures)
• a thick thin wall
• a high/low wall
• an outside wall
• hang a (painting) on the wall
• drill a hole in a wall
• push (a chair) against the wall
• (the garden) is surrounded by a wall

Match the halves:

1. I’ve decided to paint
2. The house is surrounded by
3. Before you start, you’ll need to drill
4. We can hear our neighbour’s television
5. I pushed the bookcase back
6. The outside walls of traditional Greek houses
7. Posters of football stars
8. We hung some pictures of wild animals

• a. a very high brick wall.
• b. through the thin walls of our flat.
• c. on the living room walls.
• d. are usually painted white.
• e. some holes in the wall.
• f. against the living room wall.
• g. the walls of my bedroom pink.
• h. covered the walls of our son’s bedroom.

Note

1. You can also stick something on a wall or pin something to a wall:
   • He stuck a picture of his cat on the wall above his bed.
   • There were some photographs from their holiday pinned to the wall.