Home and Housing

What this unit covers

This unit sits in the Topic Vocabulary strand of English language. It focuses on the words we use for where we live. Most resources deal with rooms and furniture, but some go further into chores, kinds of home and housing.

• Rooms: kitchen, bedroom, bathroom, living room, dining room and garage.
• Furniture and objects: sofa, armchair, wardrobe, fridge, cooker, sink and lamp.
• Places to live: flat, village, town, city, tree house, castle and log cabin.

Where to start

Begin with the Parts of the House Quiz. It asks where a bed, a shower or a car belongs, and it asks you to write the room names. Then try Furniture of the house, which asks which room the fridge, sofa, wardrobe or tub goes in.

If the words feel new, look at the flashcards first. The my house deck groups words by room, such as carpet, sofa and television under living room, and kettle, fridge and oven under kitchen. House- furniture adds items like a mirror, a shelf and a dishwasher.

Using quizzes and maps together

Mind maps help you see how words link up. The rooms in your house map places the sofa, TV and carpet in the living room, and the bathtub and shower in the bathroom. Read a map, cover it, then take a quiz to see what stuck.

1. Read a mind map such as HOUSE CHORES to see jobs sorted by room.
2. Go through a flashcard deck, for example Home Sweet Home flash Cards, for kinds of home.
3. Take a quiz to check the words.
4. Return to any deck or map where you hesitated.

For teachers

Teachers can use the quizzes and decks as ready-made starters or revision tasks. The mix is mainly secondary and primary, so there is plenty for younger learners as well as older ones. The resources were made by GoConqr users, so check that a set suits your class before you share it.

Next step

Choose one room, work through its words, and then see how many you can place without help.