Your Dream House

1. Your Dream House Goals: Students will be able to discuss parts of the house. Students will be able to express their imagination.

2. Warm-up • By yourself, list as many rooms in the house as you can. • With the class, list the things that people can do in those rooms. • What does your house or apartment look like? What rooms does it have? How many people live there?

3. Comprehension • Copy down the following chart. Fill it in as you read and listen to the following passages.

4. Unusual Houses • 1) A house? A boat? A houseboat? • Pete and Karen Clay are from Kentucky. They have an unusual home. It’s a houseboat named Fargo. It has a living room, a kitchen, a bathroom, and three bedrooms. The Clays’ children, Andy and Kris, love it. “It’s a cool house and a fun boat,” says Kris.

5. 2) Up in a tree! • Grant Stone is 12, and his sister, Jenna, is 8. They’re only kids, but they have a house. It’s a tree house at their grandparents’ place in the countryside. Their tree house has one room, a living room with a table and a few chairs. It’s small but Grant and Jenna think it’s great. Grant says, “It’s my favorite place! That’s why we named it ‘My Place’!”

8. True or false? • The Clays’ houseboat has two bedrooms. • The Clays’ houseboat is small. • Grant is 12 years old. • Grant has two sisters. • The tree house is big.

9. Practical or fun? • Some houses have cool things like castle towers, water slides going from a window into pools, moats, or are incredibly massive. • Is this practical? Why or why not?

14. Your dream house • House name: • What would it be like? Why would it be that way? • Who would live there? • We would have ___________________ because________________________. • We wouldn’t have __________________ because________________________. • Show your group, and then the class!

15. Poem • There’s a hill by the sea, • On the hill there’s a house, • In the house there’s a room, • With a small white door. • There’s a sign on the door • And the sign says ME. • But the door is locked • And there isn’t a key.

16. Home Furnishings • Goals: • Name the furniture in a house and explain its location • Explain the function of home furnishings • Discuss home safety

17. Ball Review • Prepositions! • in • on • under • over, on top of • next to, beside • in between • near • across from

18. Practice using prepositions: next to, beside in between near under on opposite Practice using spatial descriptions: in the corner in the middle by the door or window on the left or right hanging on the wall across the room Pairwork: Tell your partner what your room looks like. Have them draw it.

19. Describe these rooms

22. air conditioner barbecue grill washing machine burglar alarm __________ __________ A) frying pan B) smoke detector C) electric fan D) vacuum cleaner E) ___________ F) ___________ Match each item on the left with one on the right that does a similar job. What jobs do they do?

23. Pair work- tell your new partner what things belong in each room. Guess which things don’t really belong. • Bedroom: bed, desk, frying pan, chair, wardrobe, toilet • Bathroom: ______________ • Living room: ______________ • Dining room: _______________ • Kitchen: ______________ • Garage: ______________ • Yard: ______________

24. Dangers in the house • What dangers are there in the house? • What could happen next? • What would you do if you were there? • Discuss with your group and make a plan to keep the baby safe.

25. Save the baby • The fridge is leaking. There is a large pool of water underneath it, and the electric plug runs through it. • There is a large stack of dirty plates piled next to the sink. Baby is playing next to the cabinet under the sink. • There is a pot of boiling soup on top of the table. Baby is playing under the table. • Someone left food cooking on the stove and forgot about it. Soon there will be a fire.