Activity 1: Warm-up · 10 minutes
Guess the Room
a) Aims
Ss activate prior knowledge about rooms in a house and get ready for the topic 'My house' and the reading text.
b) Content
Period 1. T shows clues on the slide, one by one, about a room. Ss guess the room. Clue 1: 'You sleep here. There is a bed and a pillow.' Clue 2: 'You cook food here.' Then Ss brainstorm in pairs other rooms of a house. Guiding questions: 'Which room do you sleep in?' 'What is in your kitchen?' 'Where do visitors sit?'
c) Expected outcomes
Ss name at least five rooms or parts of a house in English, such as bedroom, kitchen, living room, bathroom and hall, and identify the bedroom from the clue 'bed and pillow'.
d) Organisation
Teacher's activities
Students' activities
Teacher
Step 1: Task delivering
T says: 'I will give you some clues. Guess the room.' T shows the first clue: 'You sleep here. There is a bed and a pillow.' T asks: 'Where am I?'
Students
Ss listen and guess. Expected answer: 'A bedroom.'
Teacher
Step 2: Task performance
T shows the second clue: 'You cook food here. There is a cooker.' T asks pairs to brainstorm as many rooms in a house as they can in 2 minutes.
Students
Pairs brainstorm rooms. Expected answers: 'Kitchen, living room, bathroom, hall, bedroom.'
Teacher
Step 3: Report and discussion
T asks: 'Which room has a wardrobe? Which room has a shelf?' and listens to the answers.
Students
Ss answer in full sentences. Expected answers: 'The bedroom has a wardrobe.' 'The living room may have a shelf.'
Teacher
Step 4: Conclusion and assessment
T writes the topic 'My house' on the board and says: 'Today we will read about a special room and talk about our own house.' T writes the lesson title on the board.
Students
Ss copy the title and the topic into their notebooks.