Homes

Lead-in

  • What do you need to pack when you go on a trip?
  • What makes a good trip?
  • How expensive should a trip be?
  • Where do you go when you want to travel to relax?
  • How do you feel about travelling to go on an adventure?
  • How often do you travel on business?

Presentation

Pre

  • What makes a trip good or bad?
  • How often do you travel with friends?
  • What do you think about travelling to Paris?

Top Down

  • What does the text talk about?
  • A bad travel experience
  • A conversation between three friends
  • A lovely trip to Paris
  • A bad travel experience
  • A conversation between three friends
  • A lovely trip to Paris

Bella: Hey sweetie! How are you? Missing you already!
Mary: Hey Bella, miss you too! I’m okay and you?
Bella: I’m great. How’s your European adventure? Having fun with the gang, are ya? I heard you’re in France now. Are you in love yet?
Mary: It depends on what you mean by love! You have no idea how incredibly incompetent the guys can be when it comes to choosing decent places to sleep.
Bella: What do you mean? Aren’t you guys in a small, cozy cottage in Marseille now?
Mary: For sure we are in France. And in a small cottage. But I wouldn’t dare say it’s cozy here.
Bella: Why not?
Mary: Because there are spiders, and you know I hate them! Carlos found us a cheap cottage for us to stay here in Marseille. And from the pictures, it seemed to be great. But as soon as we got here, we could see that it was actually a dark, cold, and dirty place, with leaky and moldy rooms. On top of that, there’s no running water to shower or cook.
Bella: Oh no. That seems to be awful. When Carlos called me yesterday, he described the cottage as comfy and made it sound amazing and when I asked him what your thoughts on the house were, he answered, and I’m quoting him now, “She loves it! She is absolutely thrilled.”
Mary: Carlos is insane! That’s crazy. Nobody liked the house and we all told him so. But he is too proud to admit he made a poor choice. I don’t like proud Americans.
Bella: I’m so sorry about that. American guys like Carlos really suck. But you can still enjoy France, and well, at least there’s enough room to like French guys, lol. I hope you like them.
Mary: You’re amazing, Bella. And you’re right, there’s plenty. As a native guy is teaching me French. I can say I don’t hate him, yet. lol

Bottom Up

  • Answer the questions according to the text.
  1. Where is Mary?
  2. Is Mary in a cozy cottage?
  3. How did Carlos describe the cottage?
  4. What was the lie Carlos told Bella?
  5. What did Mary say about Bella?
  1. Where is Mary? She is in France.
  2. Is Mary in a cozy cottage? No, she’s not. She is in a small cottage.
  3. How did Carlos describe the cottage? He described the cottage as comfy and amazing.
  4. What was the lie Carlos told Bella? He said the cottage was comfy and made it sound amazing and also, he said that Mary loved it.
  5. What did Mary say about Bella? Mary said Bella was amazing!

Post

  • How would you feel if you were in a horrible accommodation during a trip?
  • What would you do to make the situation better?

Target Language

Object pronouns

Affirmative  Subject + Verb + Object Pronoun

  • I love it!

Negative Subject + Negative verb + Object Pronoun

  • She hates them. She thinks the houses are horrible.

Interrogative Do + Subject + Verb + Object Pronoun

  • Do you like it?

 

  • Look at that tent! I really like it.
  • We are looking for detached houses. She loves them.
  • They are never going to live in this cottage, because they hate it.
  • These tents look cool. Do you like them? We can rent one, if you want.

Types of House

Controlled Practice

  • Match the words with their definitions. There is one example.

  1. Apartment Building

  2. Town House

  3. Detached House

  4. Tent

  5. Tipi

  6. Yurt

  7. Cottage

  8. Hut

(   ) a usually small frame one-family house

(   ) a conical tent usually consisting of skins and used especially by American Indians of the Great Plains

(   ) a stand-alone residential structure that does not share outside walls with another house or building

(1) a building containing separate residential apartments

( ) a collapsible shelter of fabric stretched and sustained by poles and used for camping outdoors or as a temporary building

(   ) a usually single-family house of two or sometimes three stories that is usually connected to a similar house by a common sidewall

(   ) an often small and temporary dwelling of simple construction

(   ) a circular domed tent of skins or felt stretched over a collapsible lattice framework and used by pastoral peoples of inner Asia

  1. Apartment Building

  2. Town House

  3. Detached House

  4. Tent

  5. Tipi

  6. Yurt

  7. Cottage

  8. Hut

(7) a usually small frame one-family house

(5) a conical tent usually consisting of skins and used especially by American Indians of the Great Plains

(3) a stand-alone residential structure that does not share outside walls with another house or building

(1) a building containing separate residential apartments

(4) a collapsible shelter of fabric stretched and sustained by poles and used for camping outdoors or as a temporary building

(2) a usually single-family house of two or sometimes three stories that is usually connected to a similar house by a common sidewall

(8) an often small and temporary dwelling of simple construction

(6) a circular domed tent of skins or felt stretched over a collapsible lattice framework and used by pastoral peoples of inner Asia

Freer Practice

  • Would you ever live in ____? Why or why not?
    • Yes, I would. Because …
    • No, I wouldn’t. Because …

Production

  • Talk about two people you know and where they live.
  • If you had to live with one of them, where would you prefer to live? Why?

Homework

Choose the best option for each sentence.

Example: These terraced houses look / looks good. > These terraced houses look good.

  1. She is crazy about / crazy in those terraced / teraced houses.
  2. They can’t stand loud noises. They hate / love it.
  3. Does / Do you like this / these houses?
  4. I love cottages / cotages.
  5. Do you want to sleep in a iurt / yurt?
  1. She is crazy about those terraced houses.
  2. They can’t stand loud noises. They hate it.
  3. Do you like these houses?
  4. I love cottages.
  5. Do you want to sleep in a yurt?

True or false?

Example: “Was” is the plural form of verb be. > False

  1. Object pronoun is the direct or indirect object of a verb.
  2. The object form of “I” is me.
  3. The object form of “they” is their.
  4. The object form of “he” is his.
  5. The object form of “she” is her.
  1. Object pronoun is the direct or indirect object of a verb. True
  2. The object form of “I” is me. True
  3. The object form of “they” is their. False
  4. The object form of “he” is his. False
  5. The object form of “she” is her. True

Complete the words with the missing letters.

  1. BL_C_ O_ F_A_S
  2. T_P_
  3. _O_TA_ _
  4. D_ _AC_E_ _O_S_
  5. Y_R_
  1. BLOCK OF FLATS
  2. TIPI
  3. COTTAGE
  4. DETACHED HOUSE
  5. YURT

Put the words in the correct order

Example: prefer / computers / I / than / cell phones. > I prefer cell phones than computers.

  1. don’t / him / I / understand
  2. He / liked / really / her / never
  3. Beth / following / is / her / someone / thinks
  4. Anne / forget / it / didn’t
  5. to / Bernardo / pudin / eat / likes / and / it / wants
  1. I don’t understand him.
  2. He never really liked her.
  3. Beth thinks someone is following her.
  4. Anne didn’t forget it.
  5. Bernardo likes pudin and wants to eat it.

Correct the mistakes.

Example: He doesn’t like I > He doesn’t like me.

  1. “Everybody hates Chris” is a great show and I love them.
  2. I prefer talking to you than talking to they.
  3. She always says me don’t know how to clean my house.
  4. When are you going to stop annoying she?
  5. The printer is not working, I have to fix her.
  1. I hate cotages, I prefer something more urban.
  2. Do you like iurts?
  3. Would you stay in a tipy?
  4. I love those bloks of flats over there.
  5. Do you like this hutt?
  1. “Everybody hates Chris” is a great show and I love it.
  2. I prefer talking to you than talking to them.
  3. She always says I don’t know how to clean my house.
  4. When are you going to stop annoying her?
  5. The printer is not working, I have to fix it.
  1. I hate cottages, I prefer something more urban.
  2. Do you like yurts?
  3. Would you stay in a tipi?
  4. I love those blocks of flats over there.
  5. Do you like this hut?

Writing

Write a short text about your dream house.

Example: My dream house is a detached house and…