Lesson Plan: My Home 🏠

Target Audience:

Czech Students, Ages 8-14

Lesson Duration:

45-60 minutes

Learning Objectives:

By the end of this lesson, students will be able to:

• Name and identify different rooms and furniture in a home.

• Describe their own home using simple English sentences.

• Use prepositions of place (e.g., "in," "on," "under") to describe the location of objects.

Materials:

• Whiteboard or blackboard

• Markers or chalk

• Flashcards with pictures of rooms and furniture

• Worksheets with a blank house floor plan

• Magazines or pictures of different homes (optional)

Lesson Procedure:

1. Warm-up (5 minutes)

• Start by asking students, "How are you today?" to practice a basic greeting.

• To introduce the topic, ask them simple questions like, "What is your favorite room?" or "Do you have a big family?" The goal is to get them thinking about their own living spaces.

2. Vocabulary Presentation (15 minutes)

• Show flashcards or draw simple pictures of rooms on the board. Say the English word, and write both the English and Czech translation on the board. Have students repeat the words after you.

• Introduce the vocabulary in two parts: Rooms and Furniture.

Rooms:

• Living room (obývací pokoj)

• Kitchen (kuchyně)

• Bedroom (ložnice)

• Bathroom (koupelna)

• Dining room (jídelna)

• Hallway (chodba)

• Garden (zahrada)

Furniture & Items:

• Table (stůl)

• Chair (židle)

• Sofa (pohovka)

• Bed (postel)

• Lamp (lampa)

• TV (televize)

• Window (okno)

• Door (dveře)

• Toilet (záchod)

• Sink (dřez / umyvadlo)

• Fridge (lednice)

• Bookshelf (knihovna)

• Carpet (koberec)

3. Practice Activities (25 minutes)

• Activity 1: "My Dream Home" (10 minutes)

  • Hand out the blank house floor plan worksheets.

  • Instruct students to draw and label different rooms and furniture in their dream home.

  • Walk around the room and help them with new words as needed.

• Activity 2: "Preposition Detective" (10 minutes)

  • This activity focuses on prepositions of place (in, on, under, next to).

  • Place a small object (like a pencil or eraser) somewhere in the room.

  • Ask a student, "Where is the pencil?"

  • The student must answer using a complete sentence, like, "The pencil is on the desk" or "The pencil is under the chair."

  • You can also have students give each other instructions, e.g., "Put the book on the table."

• Activity 3: "House Tour" (5 minutes)

  • Ask students to describe a room in their own house.

  • Provide sentence starters like, "In my bedroom, there is a..." or "My kitchen has..."

  • Encourage them to use as many vocabulary words as possible.

4. Wrap-up (5 minutes)

• Review the vocabulary by playing a quick game. Say a word in Czech, and have the students say it in English.

• Ask students to share one new word they learned today.

• Give students a small homework assignment: draw a picture of their favorite room and label the items in English.

Vocabulary Lists

Age Group: 8-10

• Rooms: living room (obývací pokoj), kitchen (kuchyně), bedroom (ložnice), bathroom (koupelna), garden (zahrada)

• Furniture: bed (postel), table (stůl), chair (židle), sofa (pohovka), TV (televize), window (okno), door (dveře)

• Prepositions: in (v), on (na), under (pod)

Age Group: 11-14

• Review of 8-10 vocabulary.

• Additional Rooms: dining room (jídelna), hallway (chodba), garage (garáž), basement (sklep), attic (podkroví)

• Additional Furniture: bookshelf (knihovna), lamp (lampa), mirror (zrcadlo), sink (dřez/umyvadlo), fridge (lednice), stove (sporák), wardrobe (skříň), desk (psací stůl), cupboard (kredenc)

• Descriptive Words: cozy (útulný), modern (moderní), big (velký), small (malý), clean (čistý), messy (chaotický)

• Phrases: "My favorite room is...", "In the kitchen, there is...", "I have a big house."