Theme: Buildings and lifestyles, personal taste.
Lexical area: Buildings, features of buildings and decoration
Cross curricular links: History, Geography, Art

This lesson focuses on describing houses, and what our houses can say about us. Students will review vocabulary to describe different types of houses and their features, read about unusual housing types, speak about housing in their own country and take part in a discussion about young people leaving home.

Aims:
• To learn and practise vocabulary for describing houses.
• To develop reading skills
• To practise speaking and discussion skills.


Age group: 12- adult

Level: B1 / B2


Time: 60 –90 minutes


Materials: Reading house student worksheet

 

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