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Furnish Your Living Room

Materials

• Living Room Floor Plan
• Price List
• Living Room Furniture

This lesson asks students to design their perfect living room.

Warm Up

Either print out Living Room Furniture quiz or have students take it online. Make sure they know the vocabulary of living room furniture. Ask them about other things they have in their living rooms.

Let's Go Shopping

Now hand out the Living Room Floor Plan and have students add a door (1 meter wide) and 3 windows (1/2 meter wide each) to the plan anywhere they want. Make sure they understand the scale, each dotted line is 1 meter. This is important because it puts realistic limits on how they furnish the room. You can't put a bookcase in front of a window, or the TV in the door.

Once students have done that tell them they have $450 to spend to furnish the living room. They should use the Price List which also tells them how big each piece of furniture is. You may also want to redo the prices in your home country or make them realistic for where you live. You also might want to add items that are common in your country, or take away items that are not common. Encourage students to be creative in drawing in furniture.

When they are finished, each student can present his living room to the other students and explain his choices. Alternatively, you could now practice vocabulary and prepositions by having students describe their living room to a partner. The partner should try to draw the living room without looking. After one partner has described and the other has drawn the room, they should switch. The student who is most accurate wins! Another variation, which gives you more control would be to have a few students describe their living room to the entire class and everyone draws it. That allows you to catch mistakes as they happen.

You can also practice comparing and contrasting language by having students compare their living rooms. For example:
"I put the sofa in the corner."
"Well, I put MY sofa in the middle of the wall"
"My TV is across from the armchair."
"My TV is next to the armchair."
Students then report back: "My sofa is in the corner whereas his sofa is in the middle of the wall."

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