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Does the Apartment Have a View?
The activities below provide fun exercises for the entire class when you have extra time. They are designed to be taught with specific exercises in this unit. Click on an activity in the list below or scroll down the page.
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My home
This activity is designed to be taught with Exercise 4, "Listening."
Time: 15–20 minutes. This activity gives additional practice with the names of rooms.
- Students work individually to make a floor plan of their house or apartment similar to those in the illustration in Unit 7, Exercise 1. Ask them to label each room (kitchen, dining room, living room, etc.)
- Write these sentences with blanks on the board:
My house/apartment has ____ rooms.
It has ____ , ____ , and ____ .
____ is next to ____ .
- Have students make several sentences using information from their plans.
- Students compare plans with a partner or in small groups.
- Ask volunteers to copy their plans on the board and to describe their house or apartment to the class.
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I need some furniture!
This activity is designed to be taught with Exercise 7, "Grammar Focus: There is, there are."
Time: 10 minutes. This activity provides extra practice with vocabulary about home furnishings and there is/there are.
- Draw a floor plan of a large house on the board. Label the rooms and include one or two pieces of furniture in the plan. Say, "This is my new house. There's a . . . in the . . . . I need some furniture."
- Ask students to call out the things they think you need and where these things should go (e.g., "You need a desk in the living room.") Draw the furnishings that students suggest, or draw boxes and write the words in them. Make sure there are a few plural nouns.
- When you have enough furniture in the house, students work in pairs to make lists of the furniture in each room. They ask one another questions to elicit sentences, for example, "What's in the living room?"
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My favorite room
This activity is designed to be taught with Exercise 11, "Reading: Two Special Houses in the American Southwest."
Time: 15–20 minutes. This exercise reviews vocabulary for housing and home furnishings.
Preparation: Choose a favorite room in your house or apartment. Make some notes to describe the room. Take to class a watch or clock that will show 30 seconds.
- Write your notes on the board, for example:
My favorite room: living room
Activities: relax, read, listen to music
Favorite things: beautiful pictures, comfortable sofa, stereo
- Following your notes, talk about your favorite room for 30 seconds. (Check your time on the watch or clock.) Say what you do there and describe the features that make the room special for you, for example:
"The living room is my favorite room. I relax in my living room at night. There are some beautiful pictures on the wall. There's a comfortable sofa. I sit on the sofa and read every evening. Sometimes I listen to music on the stereo."
- Students work individually to make notes about their favorite room. Have them follow this outline:
Name of room
Activities
Favorite things
- Students tell a partner about their favorite room. They should speak for about 30 seconds each. Keep time. Students change partners and talk again.
- Ask volunteers to describe their favorite room to the class.
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