That's English! - Module 6 - unit 3 - There's no place like home

As usual, let's start with general questions about this topic:

• If you moved to a new house, what features would you consider most important?
• What's your favourite room in your house and why?
• Have you ever been involved in works at home: redecorating, changing electrical wiring, a new bathroom...? What was your experience like?
• Think about the main problems you can have at home (or in your hotel room!) and discuss with your partener about how to solve them: a leak, a blocked drain, a leak...

Vocabulary
Here you are some exercises to review the vocabulary of housing: exercise 1
You can also visit this blog with adjectives to describe

Activity 1

Imagine you are in a hotel and you have problems in your room. Ring the reception desk to complain: a blown fuse, a leak, a blown light bulb (or burnt out light bulb), a blocked drain ...Then exchange roles.

Activity 2

Describe your house and what you'd like to change. If you've made any works recently explain what you did and what it was like to do it. Then exchange roles.

Activity 3

Imagine you want to rent an appartment for 6 months in Great Britain; you go to an estate agent's to hire what you need. Then exchange roles.

Activity 4

Discuss with your mate about the main problems of the housing bubble and the following housing crash. Is it important to have your own house? Is it better to rent a house?

Listening exercises

• Go to this link to hear some videos about this topic. The problem is that the vocabvulary could be a bit specific and there are no activities or exercises connected to these videos. Click here
• This link is a conversation about housing complaints, with a listening exercise included but rather difficult; click here
• This link has lots of models about housing: renting an apartment, problems at the flat, etc. Click here

Reading

Here you are an article about the problem of housing in Spain. The level is a bit high but you can find very useful vocabulary