Staying with a Host Family
Aims
Goal: arrive at a homestay and make a great first impression — a warm introduction, a small gift, and the right questions about house rules.
The lesson, stage by stage
- Warm up5 min
Warm-up: At the front door
2 warm-up questions
- Reading10 min
Reading: Welcome to Our Home
Read a 302-word text about Welcome to Our Home
- Vocabulary8 min
Vocabulary: Homestay Words
7 items
- Practice7 min
Practice: Homestay Sentences
Gap-fill exercise, 5 items
- Practice7 min
Practice: Match Homestay Situations
Matching exercise, 5 items
- Dialogue10 min
Dialogue: Meet Your Host Family
Role-play: You're arriving at your host family's home for the first time (8 lines)
- Discussion10 min
Discussion: Your mission: win over your hosts
3 discussion questions
Open the full lesson
The remaining 6 stages of this lesson, with the procedure, the examples and the exercises, are included with Starter, along with the interactive version you can teach from. Lesson 1 of this course is free: the full plan is on this site, and a free account opens it in the interactive player.
Target vocabulary
In a Tuton account these words become your student's vocabulary deck, so they come back in practice between lessons.
This plan comes from the Cultural Experiences course in the Tuton library. Browse all free lesson plans.