What your home says about you

The main goals of this ESL lesson plan are to:

• – explore the relationship between personal identity and home environment and how living spaces reflect personality, habits, and values;
• – practice vocabulary and grammar structures through verb form exercises, gap-fill activities, word rearrangement, and reading comprehension skills;
• – watch a video about what your home says about you and discuss home decoration scenarios using common English phrases.

In this Upper-Intermediate ESL lesson plan, students will explore the relationship between personal identity and home environment, learning vocabulary and grammar structures to discuss how living spaces reflect personality, habits, and values.

Warm-up: 

For each pair of home characteristics, students choose which one is more important to them as a buyer.

Video:

Students watch an informative video titled “What your home says about you…” After viewing, they complete a matching exercise connecting sentence beginnings with appropriate endings based on the video content.

Exercises:

Language skills are reinforced through various activities. Students choose the correct form(s) of the verbs. In the second exercise they use verbs in the correct form to fill the gaps in sentences. Lastly they rearrange letters to create verbs.

Reading:

Students read a text about furnishing a home and answer questions about the text to test reading comprehension.

Discussion:

Students read home decoration scenarios and describe what they would do using common English phrases provided.