House, rooms and furniture PDFs, picture books and music. If you like anything here and want more, please support TEFLtastic.
Lists of language for describing homes
British and American house and home and describing places vocabulary lists – the third and fourth lists here
Photocopiable household vocabulary classroom activities
British and American household vocabulary quiz checking/ clarifying practice
House, family and prepositions (bluffing and drawing games)
House and home likes, dislikes and recommendations
Household vocabulary roleplays
There is/ are/ was/ were and household vocabulary writing tasks
IELTS Speaking Part One on accommodation
Household countable and uncountable nouns
Other worksheets including household vocabulary
Homes and architecture Pictionary
Where you live vocabulary and speaking
Present Continuous and places guessing game
Have/ Have got with prepositions of position guessing game
Present Continuous and prepositions of position drawing game
Is there a…? Are there any…? coin drawing game
What’s in the…? There is/ There are… pick and draw drawing game
How many are there? games (with prepositions of position)
There is/ There are plus prepositions make me say yes game
There is/ There are How many board game
Household vocabulary stories
Where’s Spot? (classic flap book for prepositions, furniture vocabulary and animals – link to an article of mine on using this book, and read throughs also available on YouTube, though I haven’t found a good one)
We Eat Dinner In the Bathtub (rooms and daily routines actions with Present Simple- link to read through on YouTube)
Homes and Houses Then and Now (get students to identify things that still exist now in the very different homes in the past such as the beds in the cave and the fan in the Egyptian house)
Who’s Making That Mess? (no suitable words in the actual story, but lots of room vocabulary and related things like “stairs” and “bin” that you could bring in through the pictures)
Goodnight Moon (less than half of the vocabulary is related to the topic, but you could go through the book a second time getting students to say “Goodnight” to everything else that they can see, trying not to repeat the words that were in the story)
Household vocabulary songs
Let Me Take You on a Tour of My House song (there is/ there is with furniture and rooms vocabulary – surprisingly funky, but doesn’t quite rhyme)
In My Room There is a… song (quite simple, but some amusing bits like a spider on a clock)
I’m Playing My Guitar in the Bedroom song (Present Continuous for actions in different rooms, with a terrible tune but quite a fun twist with “Please be quiet, I’m trying to sleep”)
I am a Red Chair song (very basic, but maybe the only one without “There is/ are…”, so maybe good if you’ve just done imperative and/or colours)
Related pages
Classroom language page (for furniture etc that’s also in the classroom like table and chair)
Updated 16 July 2022
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