Home Sweet Home
This rooms of the house ESL lesson teaches bedroom, bathroom, kitchen, living room and related actions. Students mime room activities, sing, guess locations and ask where family members are. They build and label a paper dream house before presenting what happens in each room.
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Lesson format
2 × 45 minutes
Level
Beginner
Age group
Ages 6–9
Main focus
Speaking first
What students will learn
Lesson flow
Children act out room activities in a warm-up game (stirring soup for kitchen, sleeping for bedroom), sing rooms-of-the-house songs with gestures, and mime a room for a partner to guess. The second lesson roleplays 'Where's Dad?' hide-and-seek with toy props, builds a paper dream house labelling each room with stick figures, and presents it to the class ('This is my house. I sleep in the bedroom!').
Target language
- • 'What room is this?'
- • 'It's the ___'
- • 'Where is ___?'
- • 'In the ___, I ___'
Key vocabulary
- bedroom
- kitchen
- bathroom
- living room
- sofa
- bed
- table
- chair
- window
- door
Speaking questions students answer
- • What room is this?
- • Where is Mum?
- • What do you do in the kitchen?
- • Where's Dad?
- • What room do you sleep in?
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Why this lesson works
The lesson follows a clear progression: Act out room activities in a warm-up game, match rooms to activities, build a paper dream house and describe it. Teachers can open the materials and start immediately, while students move from supported vocabulary practice to purposeful spoken English.