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TEACHER’S NOTESDrawing housesby Hans Molyoung learners tEACHER’S NOTESLevel: ElementaryTarget age: 8-10Time needed: 30 minutesObjectives: To describe a house.Vocabulary: roof, windows, doors, wall,chimney, pointed, flat, big, small, square, roundMaterials: one copy of Worksheet 1-4 for eachchild, coloured pens/pencils.Introduce the languageTell the children that you are going to talk about thehouses they live in.Worksheet 11 Match the words to the pictures.• Pre-teach the parts of a house. Stick a picture ofa house from a magazine on the board and labelit with the children. Make sure you label all theparts: roof, window(s), door(s), wall(s), chimney.• Hand out Worksheet 1 and ask the children tocomplete the matching activity.Worksheet 21 Complete the sentences. Use the words in thebox.• Explain that you are going to learn some wordsto describe a house.• Go through the adjectives for describing the partsof a house: pointed, flat, big, small, square, round.Use pictures or physical movements to help you.• Show the children Exercise 1. They should lookat the pictures and then use the words in the boxto complete the sentences.Answers: a) flat, b) pointed, c) square, d) round, e) big, f)smallWorksheet 31 Talk about your house. What does it look like?Complete the sentences.• Now the children complete the sentences usingthe words they have learnt.• Feed back with the class by asking questions,e.g. Has your house got a pointed roof? What shapeare your windows? Don’t worry about correctingerrors at this stage.© Macmillan Publishing Ltd 2007YOUNG LEARNERS / Arts & Crafts / Drawing housesWorksheet 41 Draw your house below. Then colour it in.• Explain to the children that the activity involvesdrawing. They need to make a drawing of theirhouse and write the names of the objects aroundit. They can colour in the house when they havefinished drawing and labelling it. While thechildren are drawing stimulate and help them,using phrases like Well done. That looks great. Isthat a big house? Are you drawing a pointed roof?Nice colours. Is this a door? Let the children writethe words for the parts of their house aroundtheir drawings.• When everybody is finished, display all thedrawings in class.Follow up2 Now draw your friend’s house.• The children work in pairs. One child describeshis or her house while the other draws the housein the box. When one house is finished, theychange around. Afterwards they can comparetheir drawings.• Stick all the houses on the wall in one long street.Think of a nice name with the children. Let thechildren write a description and pin these upunder the houses.• Play a game with the whole class. Ask a studentto describe a house: the other children have toguess whose house it is.•PHOTOCOPIABLE•CAN BE DOWNLOADEDFROM WEBSITE

WORKSHEET TG or WORKSHEET 1Drawing Title housesby Author Hans Molyoung subject learners title worksheet 1Today we are going to draw a house. Perhaps we will draw your house!1. Match the words to the pictures. The first one is done for you.roofwindowdoorwallchimney© Macmillan Publishing Ltd 2007YOUNG LEARNERS / Arts & Crafts / Drawing houses•PHOTOCOPIABLE•CAN BE DOWNLOADEDFROM WEBSITE

WORKSHEET 2Drawing housesby Hans Molyoung learners worksheet 21. Complete the sentences. Use the words in the box.round small pointed square big flata) A ________ pointed roof. b) A ________ roof.c) A ________ window.d) A ________ window.f) A ________ house.e) A ________ house.© Macmillan Publishing Ltd 2007YOUNG LEARNERS / Arts & Crafts / Drawing houses•PHOTOCOPIABLE•CAN BE DOWNLOADEDFROM WEBSITE

WORKSHEET TG or WORKSHEET 3Drawing Title housesby Author Hans Molyoung subject learners title worksheet 31. Talk about your house. What does it look like? Complete the sentences.a) My house has got _______________________________________________ .b) My house hasn’t got _____________________________________________ .c) My house is ____________________________________________________ .d) My house isn’t __________________________________________________ .e) The roof is _____________________________________________________ .f) The windows are ________________________________________________ .g) The doors are __________________________________________________ .© Macmillan Publishing Ltd 2007YOUNG LEARNERS / Arts & Crafts / Drawing houses•PHOTOCOPIABLE•CAN BE DOWNLOADEDFROM WEBSITE

WORKSHEET 4Drawing housesby Hans Molyoung learners worksheet 41. Draw your house below. Then colour it in.2. Now draw your friend’s house.© Macmillan Publishing Ltd 2007YOUNG LEARNERS / Arts & Crafts / Drawing houses•PHOTOCOPIABLE•CAN BE DOWNLOADEDFROM WEBSITE