Home and Living Spaces

All levels50 minConversation StartersLesson 7 of 8 · Outline

Aims

Goal: describe where you live so a listener can picture it — location, feel, and one honest pro and con.

The lesson, stage by stage

  1. Warm up5 min

    Warm-up: Where do you live?

    2 warm-up questions

  1. Reading10 min

    Reading: What Makes a House a Home

    Read a 193-word text about What Makes a House a Home

  2. Vocabulary8 min

    Vocabulary: Home and Living Vocabulary

    6 items

  3. Practice7 min

    Practice: Build Sentences About Homes

    Word-ordering exercise, 5 items

  4. Dialogue10 min

    Dialogue: Describing Where You Live

    Role-play: A new colleague asks you about where you live. (4 lines)

  5. Discussion10 min

    Discussion: Home and Living Discussion

    5 discussion questions

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Target vocabulary

In a Tuton account these words become your student's vocabulary deck, so they come back in practice between lessons.

neighbourhoodflatmatecosymove incommuterent

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