BBC Learning English
Keep Your English Up To Date
24th November 2009
Floordrobe
Where do you keep your clothes? In a chest of drawers? A closet? Perhaps a wardrobe? Well,
if you re anything like me, quite a few of your clothes at any one time might be on the floor.
It makes it easier to select what you want to wear. I  and millions of people like me  call it
my floordrobe. It s a form of storage for clothing which requires no hangers, drawers, doors
or effort. Simply drop your clothes on the floor and you have a floordrobe. If a husband and
wife are similarly untidy, they might even have a 'his-and-hers' floordrobe. You just enter the
bedroom, and there it is  a walk-in floordrobe.
Why go to the trouble of hanging your clothes up when you take them off at night  they ll be
easier to find in the morning if you just leave them on the floordrobe.
Teenagers tend to have the most sophisticated and developed floordrobes. In fact, parents
might be completely unaware that floordrobes even exist. They just see a pile of clothes on
the floor!
Mark Shea has been a teacher and teacher trainer for eighteen years. He has taught English
and trained teachers extensively in Asia and South America, and is a qualified examiner for
the University of Cambridge oral examinations. He is currently working with journalists at
the World Service and is the author of the BBC College of Journalism's online English tutor.
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