Parts of the house (beginner learners)

Being able to identify parts of your own house is another step towards conquering your second language.  Today we will focus on parts of the house along with the furniture that occupies that space. 

As usual, example vocabulary and grammar structure will be included along with warm up, practice, and production activity ideas.

Vocabulary

• Parts of the house and its furniture
• Window
• Door
• Kitchen
• Stove 
• Refrigerator 
• Microwave 
• Oven 
• Sink
• Living room
• Sofa 
• Television
• Rug
• Lamp
• Dining room
• Table 
• Chairs 
• Plate 
• Knife 
• Fork 
• Spoon 
• Cup
• Bathroom
• Sink 
• Shower 
• Toilet
• Bedroom
• Bed 
• Dresser 
• Closet
• Laundry room
• Washer 
• Dryer 
• Clothesline
• Grammar Structure
• Where is the ______________?
• ________________ is in the ________________.
• There are _____________.

Warm Up

Draw your family and where you live

• Procedure: Instruct students to draw the family members that they live with (and label who they are to them) as well as draw their house. 
• Modification: Students draw the inside of their house with their family members in different rooms.

Dream House

• Procedure: Instruct students to draw what their dream house would look like. 

Different House

• Procedure: Compile pictures of the inside of different houses and show these to the students.  Ask what they all have in common (students can answer in first language).

Practice Ideas

Giant House

• Procedure: Pairs of students are given a blank sheet of paper and instructed to draw a certain room in the house.  They must draw the furniture and label them.  Then all pairs lay out their “rooms” on the floor.  Students take turns asking where a piece of furniture is or what is in a room.

Charades

• Procedure: Students are divided into two teams.  The teams elect the first person to go first for each team.  The first two representatives are shown a room of the house and told to act out (without saying anything) what they do in that room.  The rest of their team must guess what room they are in.  The first team to guess correctly gets a point.  Then the teams elect another player to act out a room next. 

Pictionary

• Procedure: Students are divided into two teams and elect on player to be the first artist.  The two artists are shown a room or piece of furniture.  The artists must draw it while their teammates guess.  The artist cannot act out the word or say anything.  The first team to guess correctly gets a point and both teams elect a new artist. 

Production Ideas

Draw what I describe

• Procedure: Students listen to or read a description of a room or house.  They must draw what is described. 

Describe what Seen

• Procedure: Students look at a picture of a room/house.  They must write or orally describe the room or the parts of the house, including the furniture.