House rules speaking with can and have to

Live Wire 2 Units 12 and 13

Thinking about topics like those below, do one or more of these activities:

  • Find things in common with where you partner lives or has lived
  • Find differences with where your partner lives or has lived
  • Find rules you have experienced which are stricter than those which your partner has experienced
  • Decide what the best rules would be

Possible topics

Animals (pets, etc)

Appearance (clothes, etc)

Bathroom/ Toilet

Bed/ Bedroom

Damage

Different rooms/ Different places

Dirt/ Cleaning

Entering and leaving

Food and drink (meals, snacks, cooking, etc)

Footwear (shoes, slippers, etc)

Housework

Making decisions

Money

Outside

Plants

Possessions/ Your things

Safety

Shared things/ Shared spaces/ Sharing

Speaking

Tidiness

Times (bedtime, etc)

Using things/ Borrowing things

Visitors

Where things go

Technology

Music

Useful phrases for doing the activities

Do you/ we have to…?

Can you/ we…?

Do you/ we have any rules about…?

How about you? 

Discuss rules about technology and then music as a class.

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Related pages

Live Wire 2 page

Modals of obligation, prohibition and permission page