My new bedroom.

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Level: beginner Topic: describing location/position. Asking about location/position Interaction: pair work Time: 15-20 minutes Material: copy and cut up the handouts (A and B), one set for each pair. (Optional) Bring in a picture of a bedroom (perhaps from a catalogue) showing various bedroom items to introduce topic. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Language focus: There is/there are Prepositions: on /in /on the left, etc. Questions with the verb to be: Where's . . .?/ Is it ... ? Key vocabulary/Topic Bedroom equipment: bed, pillow, blanket,, curtain, dresser, rug, light, teddy bear, stereo, poster, book, computer, ball, alarm clock, Size: big, small, large Position: on, under, next to, bellow, on the right, on the top, on the bottom METHOD 1. Show the class your picture of a bedroom and tell them it's your new bedroom. Ask them to tell you what they see. Then brainstorm for a list of all the bedroom Items/equipment. Ask each person to mime one and as others guess what it is, rub it out. Draw a room on the board and ask students to come up in turn and draw something in the place you describe: e.g. There's a stereo on the table. 2. Put the class into pairs (A and B) and ask them to decide who will talk and who will draw. If they have done this kind of activity before, remind them not to take the same role nor work with the same person as last time. 3. Give the talker Student A's handout and the drawer Student B's handout. Stress that they must keep their handout a secret from their partner. Remind the A students to use There's a ... /There are . . . and remind the B students to ask questions Where's ... ?/Where are ... ? Allow a maximum of 10 minutes for the students to complete their drawings.

4. Stop the activity and take in all the Student B handouts. Hold them up one by one and ask the class to choose the most accurate and most like the original. 1

My new bedroom.

Student A

Here is my new bedroom with lots of things in it. Your partner has the same bedroom but with nothing in it. Describe your partner where everything is but do not show him/her your picture.

My new bedroom.

Student B

Here is a bedroom and lots of things you will find in a bedroom. Listen to your partner and put the objects in the correct places in the bedroom.