TASK
The Home Sweet Home game is played in groups of three students by matching the accommodation-related pictures to its correct label.
The aim of the game is to revise and consolidate vocabulary related to different types of accommodation.
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Home Sweet Home
1. LEVEL: Intermediate (B1)
TYPE OF ACTIVITY: Group competition
SKILLS: Reading and speaking (vocabulary)
AIM
• To revise and consolidate vocabulary related to different types
of accommodation.
LEXICAL AND GRAMMATICAL AREA
• Vocabulary on different types of accommodation.
TASK
• Playing the Home Sweet Home game in groups of three students by
matching the accommodation-related pictures to its correct label.
PREPARATION AND MATERIALS
• Laminate a deck of cards of the Home Sweet Home game per group. Each
pack contains 45 cards, including a wild card.
TIMING
+ 15 minutes.
PROCEDURE
• Divide the class into groups of three players and give each group a deck
of cards.
• One of the students shuffles the cards and deals them all.
• The students must match the different types of accommodation to its
corresponding pictures. There is one wild card that mustn’t be matched.
• The players must check that the matching pair is correct. If in doubt, they
should ask the teacher.
• Players put the cards they have matched aside.
• Then, players hold their cards in hands. One player chooses one card
from his/her partners’ set randomly in order to match one of his/her cards.
If he/she manages to match a pair, he/she leaves the matched cards
aside. If not, the player must keep the card.
• Then it’s another player’s turn. He/she chooses one card from his/her
partners’ set, so on and so forth.
• The first to end the game without cards is the winner.
• The student that keeps the wild card will lose the game.
• Warn students that there is a wild card representing a forbidden house that
mustn’t be matched.
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5. If teachers would like to print double-sided cards, cards can be printed on the reverse.
The suitable reverse in provided at the end.