Drawing a House

Learning Vocabulary about Parts of a House 

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The goal is to study parts of a house and describe a house using simple sentences.

Preparation: flashcards about parts of a house or if there are no flashcards, you can draw a house in a big size so that the students can see it clearly. Label the parts of the house based on the real type of house in Indonesia.

The vocabularies: roof, window, door, wall, big, small, pointed, flat, wooden-house, bamboo-house, brick-house.

Children usually like drawing. To learn about a house and parts of it, teacher applied a lesson plan, adapted from ‘one-stop English’ and modified it based on the culture of Indonesia, using drawing to learn about house. First, the children practice vocabularies needed. Teacher draws a house in a big size on the whiteboard. Then, ask the children to label the parts of it, such as window, roof, wall, and door. Then, teacher shows some pictures of houses based on the material used, such as bamboo-house, wooden-house, and brick-house. The children practice the words and pronunciation. After that to courage students’ engagement, teacher delivers them some questions about their house, like ‘is your house small or big? Does your house have windows? Does your house have square or round windows? Does your house have wooden-door? Next, the children do a worksheet to match pictures and the words about a house. On the second worksheet, the children complete sentences describing a house and based on the description have been answered, the children draw and color their own house on the sheet prepared by the teacher.

The next activity is pair work. The children work in pair to draw his/her friend house. In turn, they describe their house and draw a house based on the description given. After that, the children display their drawing on the wall and teacher gives them appreciation. For the follow-up, they can describe one of houses and guess whose house it is.