Lesson Overview:

This B1 ESL lesson explores the topic “Build Your Own Home”, helping students discuss the process of creating a dream home and the choices, benefits, and challenges involved.

Learners explore different types of homes, building tools, and construction jobs, while discussing what makes a home comfortable, practical, and personal. They read about the advantages and challenges of building a home, compare different housing options, and share their opinions about design, location, budget, and the future of housing.

Students build key vocabulary related to homes and construction and practise expressing opinions, comparing ideas, giving reasons, and discussing their ideal homes in a clear and natural way. Activity layout:

1. Warm Up: Ranking
2. House: Key Words
3. Tools: Key Words
4. Who Builds a House? 
5. Benefits of Building a House
6. Challenges of Building a House
7. Debate
8. Housing: Discussion 
9. Picture Round: Housing

Homework:

This ESL lesson plan on homes contains a detailed homework section that presents a video which allows students to study new words, and learn about a unique housing project in London. Linked to the video, we have designed a vocabulary exercise, and a writing task. Activity layout:

1. Key Words.
2. Video: Writing Task.