THE HOUSE :

Cliparts, Flashcards and Photos - Vocabulary - Conversation Questions - Interactive activities - Activities to print -
Lesson plans - Interactive games - Games to print - Crafts - Listening - Stories - Songs - Idioms and Proverbs - Superstitions
- Rebus rhymes - Cartoons - Virtual tour - Videos

Lesson plans :

• Russian buys world's priciest home - a lesson plan
  (Breaking News English)

  

• Robots - a lesson plan (British Council)
  Theme: Domestic robots
  Lexical area: Household chores
  Cross curricular links: Science

• Wakamaru At Your Service - a lesson plan (english-4u.com)
  Level: 1
  Language function: expressing ability
  Topic: technology, gadgets, robots
  Grammar focus: modal verb 'CAN'
  - with Teacher's Notes
  
  

• Home robots on sale in Japan (Breaking News English)
  - a lesson plan with "a news article, listening (MP3 file), communication activities, pair work,
  discussion, reading and vocabulary exercises."

• household chores - a lesson proposed by Randall S. Davis (esl-lab) with :
  - a list of commonly-used vocabulary with a recording of the words in RealMedia format.
  - a short quiz to test students' comprehension of some of the words,
  - a Follow-Up exercise for expanding students' use of the vocabulary in a conversation with a partner or group.
  
  

• Dating game (teachingenglish.org.uk) :
  "This is a great activity for getting students talking...
  It is particularly useful for practising describing appearance, character and interests...
  You will need a selection of flashcards of people, a mixture of ages and types."
  Variations :
  "You can change the context and replace the pictures of the people with pictures of houses/flats and ask the students to be either estate agents or buyers looking for a place to live. Again they can write descriptions of places they want to sell (of varying standards) and places they would like to buy, mingle and try to find their dream homes."

• HOMELESSNESS - a lesson plan (absolutenglish-972)
  + A SONG STUDY: "It's probably me" by Sting and Eric Clapton
  
  

• see Minorités

INTERACTIVE games :

• Tox Mystery - interactive
  "Learn about household chemical hazards."
  (toxmystery.nlm.nih.gov)
  

  

   

• Around the home - interactive crossword
  (BBC)
  
  

• Energy Hog - advanced (energyhog.org)
  - with Interactive Games and a Scavenger Hunt

  

• Save the Planet!
  "Listen to the animals and play the game."
  - activité de compréhension orale niveau 4ème créée par Renée Maufroid

  

• Hide and Seek - Activity created by: Renée Maufroid
  "Look and listen carefully then play the game!" - with an interactive story
  
  
  
  
• Simple machines Activities - with SOUND (edheads.org)
  "Learn about simple and compound machines while you explore the House and Tool Shed!"
  
  

Games TO PRINT :

• The Home Game (onestopenglish)
  "Students practise names of household furniture and prepositions of place."

• House - word search - 3 levels (discoveryeducationalsoftware.co.uk)

Crafts :

• In the Home - à fabriquer (kizclub.com)
  CLICK on CRAFTS / OTHER CRAFTS

• Houses, Dwellings, and other Buildings (enchantedlearning.com)
  - for example :
  "Make an entire town using old boxes and cartons, paper, crayons, tape, and glue."
  
  

Listening :

• 2 activités audio proposées sur SOUNDGUIDE
  a) Parler de l'endroit où l'on habite
  b) Parler de sa famille.
  Niveau 4° et 3°
  (soundguideweb.com)

• My house - Vocabulary with AUDIO (e-learningforkids.org)

  

• Big Favor! LISTEN! + transcript (advanced) - (elllo.org)
  "You have a phone call. Take the call and answer correctly. Your friend is depending on you."
  
  
  
  
  
  
• The home (languageguide.org) :
  The Den - The Dining Room - The Kitchen - The Kitchen II - The Bedroom - The Bathroom - The Bathroom II - The Utility Room - The Home
  (Les mots s'affichent quand on passe la souris sur les images. - avec son)
  
  
  
  

• Household chores - a lesson proposed by Randall S. Davis (esl-lab) with :
  - a list of commonly-used vocabulary with a recording of the words in RealMedia format.
  - a short quiz to test students' comprehension of some of the words,
  - a Follow-Up exercise for expanding students' use of the vocabulary in a conversation with a partner or group.
  
  

• Listening Quizzes : Renting a House (about.com)
  
  

• Everyday English in Conversation - Listening
  Eating / Emotions / Fashion / Friendship / Health / Housing / Life / Memory / Money /
  Romance / Shopping / Time / Traveling / Vacation / Weather / Work
  (Focus English)

• Looking for an apartment in the ads - with sound and pictures - activities (thewclc.ca)
  
  
  

• Renting Apartments - with AUDIO : Vocabulary | Practice | Follow-Up (esl-lab.com)

  

• House (with exercises) - (esl-lab.com) :
  - Home Repairs (D)
  - Housing Complaints (D)

Stories :

• The Haunted House - animated story (British Council)

  

Songs :

• English Songs About Rooms (learnenglish.de)

• Our House by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young (esl-lounge.com)
  House and Home
  "Our house is a very, very fine house
  With two cats in the yard
  Life used to be so hard
  Now everything is easy
  'Cause of you"
  - the VIDEO (YouTube) - UPDATED
  

• Happiness sung by Al Jarreau
  - with the lyrics
  (YouTube)

  

• Animal House - an animated song with the lyrics
  Use of "There is..."
  (British Council)

  

• You're My Home - sung by Billy Joel - UPDATED
  "There's a roof above and good walls all around
  You're my castle, you're my cabin and my instant pleasure dome
  I need you in my house cause you're my home."
  - with a VIDEO (YouTube)
  
• Gonna Build a House by the CBeebies - Click on SONGS (BBC)
  
  
  
• Folk Songs About Home (nwfolk.com)

• Cleaning out my Closet By Eminem - with exercises to print (isabelperez)

• A Man's Home Is His Castle by Faith Hill

• Another Cup Of Coffee by Mike & The Mechanics
  "Where are your friends
  Where are your children
  Is this your house
  Is this your home"

• New Flat by Nits :
  "East west home's best
  There's no place like home"

• Get down by Gilbert O'Sullivan :
  "You're a bad dog baby...
  Now I'm just like a cat on a hot tin roof"

• Have You Ever Been This Low by Suede :
  "My lights are on but there's nobody home"

• Home is where the heart is by Peter, Paul and Mary

• Home on The Range by Gene Autry
  "Home, home on the Range;
  Where the deer and the antelope play;
  Where seldom is heard, a discouraging word,
  And the skies are not cloudy all day..."
  Gene Autry sang this song nostalgically about the place where cowboys feel comfortable and happy.

• Home Sweet Home by Peter Gabriel

• Knock three times by Tony Orlando and Dawn

• Mama's Little Angels by Quiet Riots :
  "We do the chores in the house, as quiet as a mouse"

• Our House by Madness

• Sweep Around Your Own Front Door by Williams Brothers :
  "Sweep around your own front door before you try to sweep around mine"
  (Proverb : 'If each would sweep before his own door we should have a clean street.')
  (lyrics007.com)

• The Walls Have Ears by Elvis Presley :
  "The walls have ears, ears that hear each little sound you make"

• What Kind Of Fool Am I by Rick Springfield :
  "The lights are on but there's nobody home"

• You never can tell by Chuck Berry

Idioms and Proverbs :

• It's like talking to a brick wall!
  
  

• Mean Streak by Deep Purple :
  "She drives me crazy gets inside my brain
  She spend my money down a drain"
  (to throw money down the drain)
  
  

• Frankenstein - Sick on the Bus :
  "Vodka pills and powder all money down the drain, I could have been somebody"
  (to throw money down the drain)

• Have You Ever Been This Low by Suede :
  "My lights are on but there's nobody home"

• What Kind Of Fool Am Irs by Rick Springfield :
  "The lights are on but there's nobody home"

• A Man's Home Is His Castle by Faith Hill

• East, west, home's best.

• Home is where the heart is.
  

• Home, sweet home.

• Men make houses but women make homes

• New Flat by Nits :
  "East west home's best
  There's no place like home"

• Sweep Around Your Own Front Door by Williams Brothers :
  "Sweep around your own front door before you try to sweep around mine"
  (Proverb : 'If each would sweep before his own door we should have a clean street.')
  (lyrics007.com)

• The Walls Have Ears by Elvis Presley :
  "The walls have ears, ears that hear each little sound you make"
  
  

Superstitions :

• Common superstitions (csicop.org) :
  • To open an umbrella in the house is to bring bad luck
    
    

   

Rebus rhymes :

• In the dark, dark wood - Nursery rhyme - Listen to it. (British Council)
• The House that Jack Built - a rebus rhyme (enchantedlearning.com)
  
  

Cartoons : (Si le lien est inaccessible, enregistrer l'image pour obtenir la taille initiale.)

CARTOONS (cagle.com)

Virtual tour :

• Time for a little bit of History - with the inside of a house in 1900
  "Look at the animation and then do the exercise."
  - activity created by Renée Maufroid

  

• The 1900 House (PBS)
  Travel back in time - from to the Information Age to the Victorian era
  Take the Virtual Tour.
  - Suggestion : Introduire 'used to' et comparer avec l'époque actuelle.

  

Videos :

• A Tiny Apartment Transforms into 24 Rooms
  "In Hong Kong, because of the space, apartments are small and expensive.
  Gary Chang, an architect, decided to design a 344 sq. ft. apartment to be able to change into 24 different designs, all by just sliding panels and walls.
  He calls this the "Domestic Transformer."
  (YouTube)

  

• PVC : The Poison Plastic
  - an animation
  (pvcfree.org)

  

• Video BarclayCard - De catastrophe en catastrophe... : un matin très particulier (videorigolo.com)

• A partir de la Video BarclayCard , Anne Pinel nous propose une 'worksheet'
  (Collège Jean de la Varende - Bourg-Achard (Eure 27) - Académie de Rouen)
  

'The Great Gatsby' (1974) - with Robert Redford and Mia Farrow -
based upon the novel by the same title written by F. Scott Fitzgerald.