Home, sweet home!
Student s Worksheet
A. Write names of the buildings under the pictures:
cottage, bungalow, terraced house, semi-detached house, detached house, block of flats
1. 2. 3.
4. 5. 6.
B. Put the words in the right columns:
village, factory, vacuum cleaner, doorbell, wallpaper, floor, balcony, bedroom, neighbourhood, toilet,
ceiling, skyscraper, dining room, study, mountains, central heating, wall, kitchen, suburbs, street,
telephone, armchair, chimney, roof, living room, guest house, district, sea, chest of drawers, door,
wardrobe, farmhouse, centre, stairs, desk, sofa, summer house, capital, basement, cupboard, bed,
palace, field, lake, hall, chair, carpet, coffee table, bathroom
Places: Buildings: Rooms: Furniture: Equipment: Other:
C. Complete the sentences with appropriate words. The first letters are given.
1. Can you make your b _ _ before you leave?
2. My mom does the s _ _ _ _ _ _ _ on her way back home.
3. My brother c _ _ _ _ _ dinner yesterday. It was awful!
4. Unfortunately, I have to s _ _ _ _ a room with my younger brother.
5. My shirt looks terrible. I need to i _ _ _ it.
6. Mike, tonight it s your turn to do the w _ _ _ _ _ _ up after dinner!
7. I m completely broke. I haven t got enough money to pay the r _ _ _ .
8. Those are our new neighbours. They m _ _ _ _ in last week.
9. Can you s _ _ _ _ _ off the TV if you are not watching it.
10. I dropped a glass on my carpet and I had to h _ _ _ _ _ it.
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Home, sweet home!
Teacher s Notes
by B. Skulski
Type of activity: individual work, pair work B.
(follow-up) Give your students 15 minutes to complete
the activity. Check the answers:
Focus: to revise vocabulary from the second of
the Gimnazjum Exam topics -  Dom
Answers:
Places: lake, sea, field, district, capital,
Level/age group: gimnazjum, grade 3
centre, mountains, suburbs,
Time: 45 minutes neighbourhood, street, village
Buildings: farmhouse, guest house,
Preparation: Copy the worksheet (one per
palace, skyscraper, summer
student)
house, factory
Lead-in:
Rooms: basement, bathroom,
bedroom, dining room, hall,
Ask the students the following questions:
kitchen, living room, study,
toilet
1. Where do you live?
Furniture: chair, armchair, coffee table,
2. Do you like living in your city/village?
sofa, bed, cupboard,
wardrobe, desk, chest of
3. Where would you like to live in the future?
drawers
Answers:
Equipment: central heating, telephone,
vacuum cleaner
1. students answers
Other: balcony, ceiling, chimney,
2. students answers
door, doorbell, floor, roof,
3. students answers
stairs, wall, wallpaper, carpet
Procedure:
Hand out the copies of the worksheet.
C.
Give your students 10 minutes to complete
A.
the activity. Check the answers:
Give your students 5 minutes to complete the
activity. Check the answers:
Answers:
1. bed
Answers:
2. shopping
1. block of flats
3. cooked
2. bungalow
4. share
3. cottage
5. iron
4. detached house
6. washing
5. semi-detached house
7. rent
6. terraced house
8. moved
9. switch
10. hoover
Suggested follow-up:
Put students into pairs and ask them to brainstorm
some unusual places to live in (e.g. a castle,
a tree house, a tent, an attic flat etc.). In
pairs, students discuss the advantages and
disadvantages of living in these places.
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