Welcome to My Crib
ESL Lesson PlansWelcome to My Crib

Welcome to My Crib

This ESL lesson plan introduces A2 learners to home-related vocabulary in a group format, focusing on speaking and listening skills. Students will explore common furniture and rooms, sort vocabulary into categories, and watch a video tour of a house to answer comprehension questions. The lesson concludes with interactive activities where students describe and guess rooms, enhancing their communication skills in a fun and engaging way.

Skills

  • Can follow a TV commercial or a trailer for or scene from a film, understanding what the actors are talking about, provided that the images are a great help in understanding and the delivery is clear and relatively slow.
  • Can describe everyday aspects of their environment e.g. people, places, a job or study experience.
Online Interactive
Based on CEFR
Fully Customizable
1

In groups, brainstorm a list of furniture and things you can find in the house.

You have two minutes to create your lists. After that, each team will name one piece of furniture from their list, the same piece can't be named twice. The team with more remaining words on their list wins.
2

Look through the list and sort the vocabulary into four groups.

3

Match the words with their definitions.

4

Study the glossary before watching the video.

5

Watch the video and pick the rooms you see.

6

Watch the video again and answer the questions.

7

Together with your partner read the sentences. Can you guess which room they are about?

8

Link the words into sentences.

9

Describe your favorite room in your house or imagine a perfect room.

10

On a separate sheet of paper write at least 5 sentences.

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