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ESL Lesson Plan: Buying A Home

Buying A Home

Lesson Overview

This awesome ESL buying a home lesson will teach your intermediate students essential language through a great video, and engaging exercises! The lesson plan starts with a fun warm up vocabulary game. Next, students move on to an adjectives exercise which teaches them how to describe different types of homes.

Thereafter, learners study the reasons…

This awesome ESL buying a home lesson will teach your intermediate students essential language through a great video, and engaging exercises! The lesson plan starts with a fun warm up vocabulary game. Next, students move on to an adjectives exercise which teaches them how to describe different types of homes.

Thereafter, learners study the reasons why millennials can't buy a home. In this exercise, participants are tasked with defining the reasons, then they have to rank them in terms of importance. We are sure this will open up an interesting debate!

Afterwards, the video is analysed in detail, as quotes are taken from the video and discussed. Then, ESL students will have further speaking practice as there is an innovative debate activity, in which learners will be challenged to use their new acquired language.  

Finally, this ESL buying a home lesson plan finishes with an idioms exercise. Students have to create and define five idioms, before matching them to pictures and answering questions. Activities: 

Activity Layout

  1. Warm up
  2. Describing homes. 
  3. Why millennials can’t buy a home. 
  4. Video analysis.
  5. Debate. 
  6. House / Home idioms. 

Homework

This ESL buying a home lesson plan includes an excellent homework exercise - it contains five questions related to the lesson topic, this will enable students to use the language and ideas presented in the lesson in their free time, in a natural way. Activities: 

  1. Writing task. 

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