A house swap: describing my home for an exchange website
Aiko describes her flat in Osaka for a home-exchange website; students study how to organise a description, use adjectives and prepositions of place, and write their own listing.
A2Adults35 minDescription
About this lesson
An A2 writing lesson (description). Prompts, model texts and simple checklists — from a first email to an opinion essay.
- Level
- A2
- Skill
- Writing
- Type
- Description
- Students
- Adults
- Time
- About 35 minutes
- Topic
- Home & rooms
- Activities
- Key words, Speaking / writing task, Reading text, Multiple choice, Matching, Gap-fill
- Key words
- house swap, spacious, fully equipped, within walking distance, view, neighbourhood, convenient, washing machine
- Access
- Premium
By the end, students can
- Describe a home: rooms, furniture, location and local area
- Use adjectives and prepositions of place accurately
- Organise a description into clear paragraphs for a reader