home sweet home

LEVEL: Intermediate (B1) TYPE OF ACTIVITY: Group competition SKILLS: Reading and speaking (vocabulary)

AIM

• To revise and consolidate vocabulary related to different types of accommodation.

LEXICAL AND GRAMMATICAL AREA

• Vocabulary on different types of accommodation.

TASK

• Playing the Home Sweet Home game in groups of three students by matching the accommodation-related pictures to its correct label.

PREPARATION AND MATERIALS

• Laminate a deck of cards of the Home Sweet Home game per group. Each pack contains 45 cards, including a wild card.

TIMING

+ 15 minutes.

PROCEDURE

• Divide the class into groups of three players and give each group a deck of cards.

• One of the students shuffles the cards and deals them all.

• The students must match the different types of accommodation to its corresponding pictures. There is one wild card that mustn’t be matched.

• The players must check that the matching pair is correct. If in doubt, they should ask the teacher.

• Players put the cards they have matched aside. • Then, players hold their cards in hands. One player chooses one card

from his/her partners’ set randomly in order to match one of his/her cards. If he/she manages to match a pair, he/she leaves the matched cards aside. If not, the player must keep the card.

• Then it’s another player’s turn. He/she chooses one card from his/her partners’ set, so on and so forth.

• The first to end the game without cards is the winner.

• The student that keeps the wild card will lose the game.

• Warn students that there is a wild card representing a forbidden house that mustn’t be matched.

If teachers would like to print double-sided cards, cards can be printed on the reverse. The suitable reverse in provided at the end.

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