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Paint It is a great resource for younger children. Use the game to talk about bedrooms.

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reading houses

Find suggestions for classroom activities about 'reading houses'. The activities help teachers and learners describe houses, and discuss who could live in them. Some useful vocabulary and ideas for parents too.

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Homes and furniture

Talking about your home is one of the most common topics that appears in coursebooks or exam materials for young learners. It's also a topic that children like talking about. You'll find lots of activities about this topic on LearnEnglish Kids:
http://www.britishcouncil.org/kids-topics-homes

With these materials your child can:
practise the names of furniture in English
practise the names of rooms in English
practise words and phrases for talking about a room
practise words and phrases for talking about houses
listen to a song about a house full fo animals
do lots of activities about haunted houses, including an online game and listening to a story
read and listen to a longer story about a magic room

The activities range from the simple (painting objects in a simple room) to more complex activities such as listening the longer story about the magic room.

You can use these materials to practise English with your child. On this page you'll find an idea for an activity you can try with your child. On the left you'll also see a list of links to resources about this topic on teaching websites that you may find useful.

SOMETHING TO DO WITH YOUR CHILD

cOne of the most important rooms for a child is their bedroom, and focussing on the bedroom is a good way to explore the topic of houses and furniture with children.

Paint It is a great activity for younger children, and a good way of introducing the topic with older children. The resource shows a picture of a child's bedroom but some items are not coloured in. Children read and listen to instructions, and then follow them. For example, they hear 'Paint the CD player grey'. They then have to click on the grey colour in the palette, and then click on the CD player to paint it grey. Here are some ideas of things you could do with your child after doing this activity:
Use a dictionary to write a list of other things you might find in a bedroom, and draw pictures of each item. The page could be one page of your child's own picture dictionary.
What's in your child's bedroom? Label the things in your child's bedroom. You could buy some blank stickers or use post-it notes. Write names on the stickers or notes and stick them around the bedroom!
Draw a plan of your child's bedroom with your child, and write the names of the things in the room in English. If your child is able, you could even write a description of the room using sentences for example: 'There's a shelf above my desk. There are 13 books on the shelf.'
Design an ideal bedroom with your child. Draw it and write about it.

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