House plan

Drawing and describing house plans is a popular activity for lower level students. This lesson combines that with question structures in an interactive manner

Objectives: revision of furniture vocab; revision of question structures in the present tense.

Step 1: As an open-class activity, have students brainstorm the different rooms in a house and the furniture that goes in them. A spidergram/mind-map diagram is best for this.

Step 2: Give students the exercise below to match.

Step 2.5: While students are working on Step 2, write the basic question words on the board. If students are working together on the interactive whiteboard, then do that right after they are finished.

WHERE
WHAT
WHO
WHEN
HOW
WHY

Step 3: Ask students:
Where do you eat?
Some expected answers can be: kitchen, dining room, bedroom. There is no correct answer, as long as the given answer makes sense.

Next questions to students should be:
What do you eat?
Who do you eat with? / Who do you eat?
When do you eat?
How do you eat?
Why do you eat?

The point of the activity is to form grammatically-correct questions and give them corresponding answers.
E.g. Why do you eat? --> Because I'm hungry. / Because I'm bored.

You can then repeat step 3 with the following verbs and any other verbs you choose:
Read
Drink
Cook
Watch TV
Write
Sleep