Exploring Hotel Rooms and Furniture

Learning Objective

Total Time: 5 minutes

Students will learn to identify various types of hotel rooms and furniture, using related vocabulary in context.

Assessments

Total Time: 5 minutes

Students will participate in a vocabulary quiz where they match pictures of furniture to the correct names.

Key Points

Total Time: 5 minutes

  • Types of hotel rooms: single room, double room, suite.
  • Common furniture: bed, table, chair, dresser, lamp.
  • Descriptive adjectives: comfortable, spacious, elegant.

Opening

Total Time: 10 minutes

  • Begin with a brief discussion: 'What do you think a hotel room looks like?'
  • Show a fun video tour of different hotel rooms around the world.
  • Ask students to share what they saw: 'Which room looked the best? Why?'.

Introduction to New Material

Total Time: 15 minutes

  • Present a PowerPoint slide with images of various hotel rooms and furniture.
  • Introduce and explain key vocabulary using images and realia (samples if possible).
  • Discuss common features of hotel rooms and relate them to students' experiences.

Guided Practice

Total Time: 20 minutes

  • In pairs, students will receive a set of hotel room images and corresponding vocabulary cards.
  • They will match images to the correct vocabulary and present their choices to another pair.
  • Teacher will circulate to provide assistance and ask guiding questions.

Independent Practice

Total Time: 15 minutes

  • Students will create a mini brochure for a fictional hotel that includes illustrations of at least three types of rooms and their furniture.
  • They will write a description for each room in simple sentences.

Closing

Total Time: 10 minutes

  • Students will present their hotel brochures in small groups, sharing their favorite room and furniture.
  • The class will vote on which hotel sounds the most appealing.

Extension Activity

Total Time: 5 minutes

  • Students who finish early can design a floor plan for their hotel using graph paper and reference furniture vocabulary.

Homework

Total Time: 5 minutes

  • Students will write a short description of their favorite piece of furniture at home, using at least three vocabulary words learned in class.

Standards Aligned

Total Time: 5 minutes

  • The lesson aligns with CEFR A1 standards by focusing on basic vocabulary introduction and practical speaking and writing exercises.