House Interiors

© 2007/2008 Languages Out There and its licensors. Reproduction in whole or in part prohibited except as may be provided under the terms of a Licence Agreement. Lesson Plan Level 2 Topic Aim Language Focus Skills Lesson 4 House interiors To describe the interiors of houses Prepositions of place and furniture vocabulary Writing, speaking, listening Out There – real world Out There – VoIP Department store furniture department or furniture shop. Tell students to call conversation partners on the VoIP client using the school’s computers or at home. # Details Task Sheet Minutes 1 2 3 4 5 To introduce the aim of the day, ask the students to describe their current room in as many words as they can. If no one mentions ‘There is a …’ ask using the same words, ‘Is there a…?’, or ask where things are. Write some of the answers on the board and highlight the ones that need correction. Explain what the students are going to study in this lesson. Task Sheet 1. Work through the vocabulary and its pronunciation. In C, demonstrate the use of ‘there is’ /‘are’, (affirmative, negative, questions, answers) and practise orally in class, using the vocabulary for rooms and furniture. Task Sheet 2. Ask the students to make a question with ‘Where…?’ Write the correct ones on the board. Go through prepositions; to describe, draw pictures on the board, and practise orally using objects in the classroom. Task Sheet 2, Exercise F. Writing exercise. Monitor and help. Check pronunciation at the end. Work through the adjectives as well. Give details of the Out There task. 1 2 2 10 30 15 15 10 Out There Tasks 6 7 Real world Look for the perfect pieces of furniture and appliances, in order to design your perfect home. Describe the pieces for each room and where they are going to be. Feedback Ask how it went, and if they want to buy anything. Check task completion. Students list their favourite new expressions, etc, of the day. Check pronunciation. Ask students if they feel confident with the language taught and get positive feedback. VoIP Look for the perfect pieces of furniture and appliances online, in order to design your perfect home. Describe the pieces for each room and where they are going to be. Then tell their partner and ask their partner to describe their perfect room Feedback Same as real world when in class, but also think about having students do the task as homework, record it and email it to you as an assessment. 40 45 © 2007/2008 Languages Out There and its licensors. Reproduction in whole or in part prohibited except as may be provided under the terms of a Licence Agreement. TD2.04 p1 Task Sheet 1 At home A Match the descriptions to the names of rooms: A place where you sleep bathroom A place where you cook landing A place where you watch TV garage A place where you have a shower kitchen A place where you work lounge A place where you eat hall A place where you park your car bedroom A place just inside the front door study A place at the top of the stairs dining room B Use the words for furniture from the box to complete the sentences below: dishwasher bath washing machine table bed bookshelf sink cupboard armchair curtains sofa desk At night I sleep in my _______. I have my dinner at the ____________. I prepare my lessons at my _____________. I do the laundry in the _____________. After I eat I put my plate in the ___________. I brush my teeth at the ___________. I have a shower in the ____________. I lie on the ____________ while I watch TV … or sit in an ___________ in the lounge. At night I close the ____________ so people can’t see in my house. I put food in the ______________. I put all my books on the ___________. C There is /are – make notes from what you teacher writes on the board. (?) (+) (-) © 2007/2008 Languages Out There and its licensors. Reproduction in whole or in part prohibited except as may be provided under the terms of a Licence Agreement. TD2.04 p2 Task Sheet 2 D Write a question below using ‘Where + (furniture vocabulary) . . . ?’ and then listen to your teacher. E Think of some examples for the prepositions of place below. Write them down below and then listen to your teacher under opposite beside by next to on in inside outside between in the middle Some useful phrases: Against the wall On the wall In the corner On the floor In the window On the windowsill In the cupboard On the shelf On the balcony By the door F Describe the rooms in a house. Write at least five sentences, one for each room. Then swap with the person on your left, and ask them the questions about the positions of the furniture e.g. where is the sofa? It’s against the left wall, in the middle. 1. 2. 3. 4 5. G Adjectives: match the opposites big cold crowded ugly cosy messy comfortable bare pretty uncomfortable tidy small What’s your room like? Your house? Your room/house in London? © 2007/2008 Languages Out There and its licensors. Reproduction in whole or in part prohibited except as may be provided under the terms of a Licence Agreement. TD2.04 p3 Out There tasks Real world – in the furniture department of a department store. VoIP – visit a site like www.heals.co.uk. Now, design your perfect home! You need furniture and appliances for each room. Describe the furniture and where things are in your rooms. Carefully plan your rooms and then, when you are ready, describe where things are in your rooms to your conversation partners. Then ask them to describe their perfect rooms. Kitchen Lounge Dining room Bathroom Bedroom