12
Project: My dream home
Textbook: p. 17
GoalDream-home project: draw and describe a house.
New words
dream · orzu, tasavvurplan · reja, chizmaswimming pool · suzish havzasiview · manzara
Explanation
In the project you draw your dream house and describe it in 6–8 sentences. Plan: 1) where it is; 2) how many floors; 3) rooms and furniture; 4) garden or yard; 5) appliances; 6) why you love it. Useful phrases: “My dream house is big and white.” “There is a swimming pool behind the house.” “There are five bedrooms upstairs.” “I would like to have a robot for cleaning.” For place use on the hill, near a river, next to a forest. Label the rooms on your plan (kitchen, bedroom …). Present your project to the class and answer questions.
Worked examples
“My dream house”. My dream house is on a hill near a river. It has two floors. Downstairs there is a big kitchen and a living room with a sofa and a bookcase. There are four bedrooms upstairs. Behind the house there is a garden with a small swimming pool. I would like to have a robot for cleaning because I don’t like tidying up!
— Is there a garden? — Yes, there is. — Are there bedrooms downstairs? — No, there aren’t. — Would you like to live there? — Yes, I would!
Class activity
“Presentation”: each pupil describes his or her house in one minute; the class asks two questions (“Is there a …?”, “How many …?”).
Practice
1
Write the correct form: There (be) a swimming pool in my dream house.
is
2
There is a garden behind the house. Say it in English.
There is a garden behind the house.
3
Plural: three (bedroom)
bedrooms
4
Why do we say “There are five bedrooms”?
Bedrooms is plural, so we use There are.