There’s no place like home
Rooms & furniture (There is/are)
60-90 min
Standard
Beginner
Overview
In this beginner-level lesson, students will learn how to describe the layout of a home and the furniture found in each room. They will focus on mastering the structural differences between singular and plural forms using there's and there are, along with the negative expressions like there isn't a and there aren't any.
The lesson is based on an authentic video tour of a ground-floor city apartment where a host introduces their living space. After analyzing these real-world examples, students will complete controlled practice tasks including gap-fill dialogues and a couple of image-based tasks. The lesson wraps up with a speaking activity about their dream home and a reflective writing assignment about their own house.
Our standard lessons follow a consistent six-stage flow: warm-up, a presentation based on real content (video, text or images), a contextual language focus stage, controlled practice, a free practice session, and a final homework task.
Each lesson includes a printable student worksheet and teacher’s guide with answer keys. For digital classrooms, we provide an editable Google Slides e-lesson, that is also compatible with PowerPoint.
Warm-up
The purpose of this stage is to activate your students' existing knowledge and prepare them for the lesson's theme.
Activity 1: Students categorise basic household furniture and rooms to activate prior vocabulary knowledge and prepare for the lesson theme.
Presentation
During this part of the lesson, we will introduce the main content, presenting new language and concepts through video, text or images.
Activity 2: The students watch a video and have to tick the rooms and household objects as they hear them mentioned.
Activity 3: Students watch the video tour a second time and answer short a few questions.
Activity 4: Students work in pairs or small groups to discuss their personal preferences and opinions related to the flat shown in the video.
Language focus
This stage of of the lesson includes a contextual, interactive activity designed for presenting the target language.
Activity 5: Students examine specific sentences from the video to contrast singular and plural patterns in both affirmative and negative forms.
Practice
To reinforce their understanding of the new language or concepts introduced in the lesson, the students will work on a couple of controlled practice activities.
Activity 6: Students read sentences describing various rooms and circle the correct word in brackets.
Activity 7: Students complete short, two-line dialogues by writing the missing target language.
Activity 8: Students look at a detailed illustration of a cozy room and ask and answer questions with a partner to locate specific objects.
Let's talk
We move into free practice for this stage, where the students apply the language in more open-ended, communicative activities.
Activity 9: Students draw a quick outline of their favourite room at home and then describe it to a partner.
Activity 10: Students interview each other using two different sets of questions.
Homework
Finally, we'll encourage students to extend their learning outside of the classroom.
Homework task: To reinforce what they learned in this lesson, the students will write five sentences that describe their current home.
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