L4 living situations + house tasks

• Engels
• MBO
• Studiejaar 1

L1 Introduction

Describing homes and interiors

During this project, you will:

• learn about other people's homes and talk about yours.
• learn useful vocabulary for describing homes (in more detail).
  
• practise useful grammar
  
• create a vlog about your own home.

This lesson

1	2
Listening A1/A2 - talking to a landlord - dividing house tasks (use the worksheet)	Your home - check out 'Google Streetview' and answer questions about your home. (use the worksheet)

You can find the worksheet in Teams - Material

Furniture & Rooms

WORKSHEET

You will hear a few 

clips where people are describing furniture 

and rooms.

Listen closely and tick the correct boxes.

Use the worksheet

Find the worksheet 'describing in more detail'  in Teams - Sectie Engels - Lease Material - Commercial Interior  Y1

activity 3a

Rita wants to rent a flat. You will hear her talking to a landlord about it.

Which room is the landlord describing? Circle A or B.

Listen to people talking about where they live. 
Circle the picture of the house or building they are talking about.

Listen to people phoning their friends. Check where each person is.

Roy and Sylvia have a lot of things to do this weekend. Listen to them deciding which things they want to do. Tick the boxes for who does what.

listening activities

activity 5

activity 1

activity 2

activity 3b

You're at home with your flatmate Virginia. Listen to what she says. What do you think she is going to ask you? Tick the question you think she will ask.

doing the dishes

doing the laundry

vacuuming

cooking meals

cleaning the toilet

cleaning

taking out the trash

hanging up/ folding the laundry

Which house tasks (=chores) are you responsible for?

ACTIVITY 4

What do you call these
things/ furniture in English?

Write down the 

English translation.

Use the worksheet

Link to audio:
https://youtu.be/ApzkloKc3Lc

Use the worksheet

Look up your 

home address in 

Google Street View.

Answer the questions about (the front of) 

your house.

ACTIVITY 6

Link to audio:
https://youtu.be/ApzkloKc3Lc

ANSWERS

ANSWERS

ANSWERS

ANSWERS

Practise the vocabulary with a crossword or by using Quizlet:

Practise the vocab

Link to crossword:

Link to Quizlet:

Evaluation

• What is a new word you learned today?
• How many of the items from activity 4 do you have in your bedroom?

• What is your least favorite house task (=chore)? Why?
• Do you know what a 'house tour' is?

END OF THIS CLASS.