Advice on housework
A LESSON PLAN FOR ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHERS
Language of advice and housework vocabulary speaking practice,
Lesson Plan Content:
Advice on housework
with housework vocabulary collocations
Choose one of the lines below and give advice on something related to it, for example:
- how long to spend on it
- how many to buy/ have/ use
- how often to do it
- how to avoid having to do it/ use it
- how to choose one
- how to clean it
- how to do it (quickly/ efficiently/ cheaply)
- how to fix it (= mend it/ repair it)
- how to get children to do it
- how to get rid of one
- how to share the job with other people
- how to use one
- the best size
- using technology to help with it
- what to use one for
- when to do it
- where to do it
- which product to buy/ use
Discuss your advice with your partner for as long as you like, then take turns doing the same with other lines below.
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Useful phrases for reacting to advice That’s a great idea. That’s a good idea. That might be a good idea. I’m not sure that is such a good idea because…
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Housework to discuss
- can opener
- carpets/ rugs
- cobwebs
- coffee maker
- (gas/ electric) cooker/ stove
- corkscrew
- crockery/ dishes
- cutlery/ silverware
- dishwasher
- do the cleaning
- do the ironing
- do the shopping
- do the washing up/ do the dishes
- doing the washing/ doing the laundry
- dust/ do the dusting/ (feather) duster
- feed the pets
- floor/ (wooden) flooring
- food processor/ food mixer/ juicer
- freezer
- fridge/ refrigerator
- frying pan/ fry pan
- furniture
- gas ring/ hob
- hang up the washing/ the laundry
- hoover/ vacuum cleaner
- iron
- ironing board
- kitchen knife
- laundry basket
- lay the table – clear the table
- make the beds
- microwave
- mop (and bucket)
- (gas/ electric) oven
- oven glove
- prepare breakfast/ lunch/ dinner/ a packed lunch/ a lunch box/ a snack
- rice cooker
- saucepan
- shopping list
- sponge
- take out the rubbish/ take out the trash/ do the recycling
- tidy up
- toaster
- walk the dog
- washing machine
- washing-up liquid/ dishwashing detergent
- water the plants/ do the gardening
Ask about any lines you don’t understand, can’t think of advice for, etc, discussing useful advice together each time.
Do the collocations exercise below, then check above.
Change groups. Do the giving advice on housework activity again, but this time without the worksheets to help, or just looking at one column of the collocations activity below.
Housework collocations
Without looking above, join words in the same section to make common collocations related to housework.
- can cleaning/ shopping/ washing up/ dishes
- cob cooker/ stove/ oven
- coffee duster
- gas/ electric flooring
- cork maker
- silver opener
- dish pets
- do the screw
- feather -ware
- feed the washer
- wooden webs
- food basket
- do beds
- frying/ fry/ sauce board
- gas cleaner
- hang knife
- vacuum pan
- ironing processor/ mixer
- kitchen ring/ hob
- laundry the table
- lay/ clear the washing/ the laundry/ the dusting/ the gardening
- make the up the washing/ up the laundry
- micro- breakfast/ lunch/ dinner/ a snack
- mop and bucket
- oven cooker
- prepare glove
- packed liquid
- rice list
- shopping lunch
- take machine
- tidy out the rubbish/ the trash
- walk the dog
- washing the plants
- washing-up up
- water wave
Check above.
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