Two Houses

Two Houses is a simple picture that can be used in many ways. You can use one or both pictures in either order.

A few ideas:

Level checks:  Check for vocabulary.  Ask prospective students questions about the houses using increasingly advanced grammatical structures to assess level.  Ask them to speculate what might have happened to the house.  Ask them to compare this house to their own house or apartment.

Making Requests:  Role play a conversation with a repairman.  Could you fix the roof?  Would it be possible to plant new flowers?  Will you replace the windows?

Future Using Going To:  He is going to replace the roof.  They are going to landscape the yard.  She is going to buy a new door.

Simple past:  Explain what repairs were made to the house.  Add past time clauses.  A few days ago, they fixed the roof.  Last week, they cut the grass.  They didn't paint the fence yesterday.

Subject + Be + a location:  The door is under the window.  The bush is in front of the house.  The chimney is on top of the house.  The fence is around the house.

Subject+be+adjective:  The windows are broken.  The windows are not broken.  The grass is cut.  The grass is not cut.

Using this and that:  This house is old.  That house is new.

Using these and those:  These windows are broken.  Those windows are fixed.

Colors:  Put students in groups of two.  Student A tells student B to color various parts of the house.  The roof is black.  The fence is yellow.  The bush is green.

Used to/Use to:  The window used to be broken.  The grass didn't use to be cut.

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