Engaging and Interactive ESL Lessons on Homes and Living Spaces
This unit from SuperEnglishESL.com introduces Level 3 students to essential vocabulary and sentence structures related to houses, apartments, and different rooms in a home. Through interactive reading, engaging speaking activities, phonics exercises, and real-life applications, students will gain confidence in discussing where they live and describing their surroundings.
Designed for 1:1 online lessons, group classes, and traditional classrooms, this unit provides structured, low-prep lessons that help teachers deliver effective and engaging ESL instruction. By the end of the unit, students will be able to name rooms in a house, describe household activities, use “There is/There are” correctly, and talk about their homes confidently.
Students are introduced to common rooms in a house and learn vocabulary related to cleaning and household chores.
✔️ Warm-up: Memory game identifying household items and people.
✔️ Reading & Discussion: “Cleaning Day at Home” – A family cleans different rooms in the house.
✔️ Vocabulary Focus: dining room, living room, kitchen, bedroom, bathroom
✔️ Grammar & Sentence Structures: Using “There is/There are” to describe rooms and objects.
✔️ Phonics: au sound words (e.g., sauce, autumn, haunt).
✔️ Interactive Elements: Tic-Tac-Toe, sentence-building, role-playing.
✔️ Real-Life Applications: Talking about students’ homes and daily chores.
Students explore activities that take place in a basement and learn about cleaning tools and household tasks.
✔️ Warm-up: Talking about past, present, and future actions in a house.
✔️ Reading & Discussion: “Family Time in the Basement” – A family spends time cleaning and playing in their basement.
✔️ Vocabulary Focus: broom, basement, sweep, clean
✔️ Grammar & Sentence Structures: “There is/There are” with household objects.
✔️ Phonics: aw sound words (e.g., claw, yawn, hawk).
✔️ Interactive Elements: Sentence formation games, comprehension checks.
✔️ Real-Life Applications: Describing where things are in a house.
Students discuss different types of homes (houses, apartments) and learn to describe where they live.
✔️ Warm-up: Word chain activity using home-related words.
✔️ Reading & Discussion: “Where We Live” – Children describe their houses and apartments.
✔️ Vocabulary Focus: house, apartment, rooms, windows, garden
✔️ Grammar & Sentence Structures: “There is/There are” with places in a home.
✔️ Phonics: aw sound words (e.g., draw, flaw, straw).
✔️ Interactive Elements: Sentence building, role-playing describing their own homes.
✔️ Real-Life Applications: Talking about their own living spaces.
Students explore different features of homes in the city, such as garages and balconies.
✔️ Warm-up: Guess the word game related to home vocabulary.
✔️ Reading & Discussion: “A Busy Day in the City” – People in a city do different activities at home.
✔️ Vocabulary Focus: garage, balcony, apartment, park, city
✔️ Grammar & Sentence Structures: Using “There is/There are” with objects in and around the house.
✔️ Phonics: aw sound words (e.g., crawl, fawn, flaw).
✔️ Interactive Elements: Tic-Tac-Toe, class discussion about city vs. countryside homes.
✔️ Real-Life Applications: Describing their own home features.
A comprehensive review of vocabulary, sentence structures, and phonics from the unit.
✔️ Warm-up: Rhyming words activity.
✔️ Assessment Tasks:
✅ Young ESL learners (A1) in classrooms, online, or homeschool settings
✅ 1:1 ESL tutoring or group lessons
✅ Teachers who want a structured, engaging, low-prep home vocabulary unit
📚 Lesson Previews & Worksheets
📝 Games & Activities
📖 Reading Passages & Comprehension Exercises
🎲 Interactive Phonics & Sentence-Building Exercises
📌 Encourage students to describe their own homes to make lessons more personal.
📌 Use real-life pictures of different homes to spark discussion.
📌 Have students draw their dream house and describe it using “There is/There are.”