Wall

Common expressions

paint a wall

a thick / thin wall

an outside wall

drill a hole in / into a wall

(the garden) is surrounded by a wall

cover the wall with (pictures)

a high / low wall

hang a (picture) on the wall

push (a desk) against the wall

Exercises

Common expressions

  1. I've decided to paint the walls of my bedroom pink.

  2. The house is surrounded by a very high brick wall.

  3. Before you start, you'll need to drill some holes in the wall.

  4. We can hear our neighbor's television through the thin walls of our flat.

  5. I pushed the bookcase back against the living room wall.

  6. The outside walls of traditional Greek houses are usually painted white.

  7. Posters of football stars covered the walls of our son’s bedroom.

  8. We hung some pictures of wild animals on the living room walls.

Notes

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.