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My Dream House ESL Lesson Plan [Free PDF]

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Introduction

The My Dream House ESL Lesson Plan is designed to help students expand their English language skills while learning about a topic that is both practical and engaging. This lesson plan aims to teach students essential vocabulary related to describing a house, as well as phrases and expressions commonly used when discussing living spaces. By focusing on the theme of “My Dream House,” students can not only enhance their language abilities but also explore their creativity and personal preferences. This topic encourages students to express their ideas and preferences in English, making the learning process more interactive and enjoyable.

Vocabulary Building

Contextual Usage

Esl warm-up activity.

To kick off the My Dream House ESL Lesson Plan, start with an engaging activity called “Dream House Charades.” Prepare a set of cards, each featuring a different room or feature commonly found in a house (e.g., living room, kitchen, garden, swimming pool). Divide the class into two teams. One student from each team will pick a card and act out the room or feature without speaking while their team guesses. This activity not only energizes the students but also introduces vocabulary related to different parts of a house, setting the stage for the lesson ahead.

Main ESL Lesson Activities

Vocabulary activity: “house hunt”, listening activity: “dream house descriptions”.

Play recordings or videos featuring different people describing their dream houses. After each description, have the students write down key details they heard. Then, facilitate a class discussion where students share and compare the details they noted, enhancing listening comprehension and communication skills.

Roleplay Activity: “House Viewing”

Reading and writing activity: “design your dream house”.

Provide magazines or printed images of various houses and architectural styles. Ask the students to choose one image that represents their dream house and write a descriptive paragraph about it. This activity encourages creativity, descriptive writing skills, and visual literacy.

ESL Homework Assignment

Key points summary, reflection and application.

Take a moment to reflect on how the vocabulary and language skills acquired in this lesson can be applied in real-life situations. Whether discussing housing options, describing a place to live, or envisioning a dream home, the language learned here will be valuable in various contexts. Consider how these language skills can contribute to your overall language development and everyday communication.

Why this topic is great for ESL learning

Engaging and relevant, practical vocabulary.

Learning vocabulary related to describing houses and living spaces is highly practical. It equips students with essential language skills that they can apply in real-life situations when discussing housing options, describing their own homes, or talking about their dream living spaces.

Creative Expression

Cultural awareness.

Overall, the My Dream House ESL Lesson Plan combines practical language learning with creative expression and cultural awareness, making it an engaging and effective topic for ESL learners.

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LESSON OVERVIEW

In this lesson students talk about their dream homes, revise vocabulary for describing homes and put it into practice through various speaking activities.

VOCABULARY FOR DESCRIBING HOMES

The lesson starts with a matching exercise in which students revise different types of homes. They match them with their definitions (e.g. cottage, detached house ) and also come up with two missing definitions. Afterwards, they work in pairs and, using some language for expressing opinions (e.g. I think, I suppose ), they discuss the advantages and disadvantages of living in three chosen types of homes. The next activity invites students to use their imagination and decide which aspects they would prioritise while buying or building their dream home. They look at a list, choose five and give reasons why (eg. price, big size ).

VIDEO & DESCRIBING HOMES

The second part of the lesson starts with a short video in which people describe their dream homes. Students look at a list of aspects discussed before and tick the ones mentioned by the speakers in the video. Then, they engage in a discussion about their personal preferences regarding a dream home. The next exercise gives students an opportunity to learn even more vocabulary for describing homes . They analyse another box with words and classify them into four categories: size, description, amenities and location. The following exercises provide students with oral practice of the language learnt in the lesson. First, they look at four photos of different homes and describe them. Then, they exchange opinions on different aspects of living in these types of homes. Finally, focusing on six given aspects, such as views or location , students reflect on their own dream homes and share opinions with partners.

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It is a great lesson. It doesn’t teach us how to use functional language, but it also gives us knowledge of what kind of houses people could live in America. As an Indonesian, I do not have many types of houses here. It would be wonderful if you give an illustration or some pictures to the example of the houses so that we get the visualization or better image of how they are.

Interesting point! I think we assumed that it is obvious what these types of accomodation look like and decided not to include pictures. After reading your message, I realized that these actually might be helpful. Let’s fix it! Find the house images at eslbrains.com/dream-houses

Hi, it doesn’t teach us how to use functional language.

Thanks a lot for the lesson It’s really helpful

We’re happy to hear that 🙂

Beautiful lesson!

Great Lesson! Thanks for sharing S2

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My Dream House: Home Learning Project

Subject: English

Age range: 7-11

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**Home Learning, project-based activities, perfect for distance learning or homework. **

This is a ‘Dream House’-themed, distance learning project that will be used whilst the children are off school. This resource spreads across 4 tasks (these could be set weekly or daily) which last for an hour each. The activities see children wining the lottery and buying their dream house- they’ll need to:

• Write the advertisement for their property that they saw in the paper
• Write a moving setting description of their new home
• Design the colour pallette, their bedroom rug and bed sheets
• Buy furniture for their home by sticking to a strict budget
• Draw a floor plan for their new property
• Describe a secret room

This download includes:

• PDF version of the 4-task home learning project
• Word Document version of the home learning project for editing
• 3 fonts for editing .docx Word documents
• Challenges to extend the higher-ability children

This task would work great for KS2 (Key Stage 2) and it fits in with the Year 3 national curriculum expectation

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How to Describe My Dream House

Sometimes in English language classes, the teacher asked you to prepare the “house of your dreams” presentation.

To be able to do that successfully, you have to know a few things about houses such as:

• The parts of the house vocabulary
• The most common adjectives to describe a house
• Grammar structures to piece your ideas together

In this post, you will find all you need to describe the house of your dreams

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Parts of the House in English

Adjectives to describe a house, grammar to describe my dream house, there is and there are, present simple with the verb to have, present simple with the verb to be, sentences with the modal would, questions to talk about your dream house, my dream house reading.

These are the parts of the house:

• living room
• laundry room
• Dining room

These are the most common adjectives to describe the house of your dreams.

This is the grammar necessary to help you describe your dream house and make an awesome dream house presentation

The structure that it is commonly used to talk about your house is there is and there are

• There is a porch
• There is a yard
• There is a swimming pool
• There are two bedroom
• There are two bathrooms

These are some sentences about your dream house with the verb to have

• My house has   five bedroom
• My bedroom has two big windows
• My house has  a big garden with an enormous swimming pool.
• My house has three floors
• My dream house has a big living room with a big television and two comfortable sofas and a beautiful table

These are some sentences about your dream house with the verb to be

• My house is beautiful
• My house is near the beach
• It’s a nice house with all comforts
• The neighborhood is a luxurious residential area

These are some sentences about your dream house with the modal would

• My house would have an indoor swimming pool
• My dream house would have at least six bedrooms
• My dream house would have three bedrooms
• The kitchen would have everything you need to cook

These are a list of questions that you can make to learn about somebody’s dream house

• Where would it be?
• What kind of house or flat would it be?
• What special features would it have?
• How many bedrooms does it have?
• How bid do you want the living room to be?

My dream house has lots of rooms and windows. It has a big red front door. There is a huge living room with comfortable sofas and an enormous TV screen on the wall for my family and me to spend time together.

In the basement, there is a giant game room with a ping-pong table and drum set for me and my friends. It has a fridge for drinks and snacks.

There are extra bedrooms so my friends can spend the night. My bedroom is blue with lots of shelves for my toy car collection. There are lots of posters of my favorite actors and singers, but they are big electronic screens so they can change all the time! There is also a brand new computer, a sound system, and a telescope because I love astronomy! My bed is special! You climb a tall ladder to get it, I sleep under a window, and I can see the stars at night!

Outside my dream house, there is giant swimming pool with water and field nearby for a beautiful black horse

Questions after completing the dream house reading

• Write two general descriptions of the Living Room
• Write two general descriptions of the game room
• Write three general descriptions of the bedroom

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