Teacher's Notes IELTS Speaking Unit 10: ACCOMMODATION: Pre-Lesson Activities

Teacher’s Notes IELTS Speaking Unit 10: ACCOMMODATION
The materials for the following activities include:

1) IELTS Speaking Task Sheet Week 10
2) Worksheet 1: Vocabulary Revision
3) Worksheet 2: Part 2 Speaking Practice Test and Prepositions of Place
4) Audio file (or weblink)
5) Worksheet 3: Audio Transcript
Pre-Lesson Activities
The following pre-lesson activities will give students the opportunity to learn or revise topic
vocabulary on the subject of ‘Accommodation’. Prior to the lesson, as a homework activity,
ask students to do the following:
• read through the vocabulary page on the subject of ‘Accommodation’: 

http://www.ieltsspeaking.co.uk/ielts-accommodation-vocabulary/
Lesson Activities
It is not suggested that you carry out the following activities in the order they are listed -
nor that you use all of them in your next lesson! However, think about how you might use
any of the suggestions or worksheets to support your lesson objectives.
1. Worksheet 1 
 
For vocabulary Exercise 1, students read through the newspaper article and complete
the gap-fill exercise. Answers appear below. 
Tip! 
If you would like to create a similar newspaper-style text, simply use the service at
the link below. It’s simple and effective: 
http://www.fodey.com/generators/newspaper/snippet.asp  
 
Exercise 2 gives students the opportunity to practise using some of the target
vocabulary in a speaking activity. Students may need time to revise the meaning of the
words first in which case they could visit the vocabulary link above. 
The activity could be carried out in one of two ways: 
a) If you want to give students further practice in forming questions you could allow a
few minutes for them to form the questions first. 
b) Alternatively, make the exercise more engaging by placing a time limit of 2 minutes
on the activity. Students simply ask their partner ‘a detached house in the country OR
city apartment block?’, and their partner should quickly say which one they prefer and
why.  
 
In either case, the object of the activity should be for both students to work their way
through all the statements and then report back to the class. 
Published by Flo-Joe for ieltsspeaking.co.uk

2. Worksheet 2/IELTS Speaking Task Sheet Week 10 
 
Tell the students they are going to talk about their dream home. The focus in this task
is on hypothesising and using language to describe an imaginary object. 
 
The IELTS Speaking task sheet suggests planning this talk in your head. Ask students
to close their eyes and imagine their dream home. Prompt them with ideas as they do
this with questions such as ‘Where is this accommodation?’, ‘Is it in the city or the
countryside?’, Is it a house or an apartment?’ etc. Continue this for a minute or two to
give students the chance to create a clear picture of the place they are going to
describe. Give them time to make brief notes but do not allow them to write out their
talk in full. Encourage them to use some of the phrases in Worksheet 2 as signposts,
each one introducing a new feature of the accommodation. For example: ‘It would be
nice if it had a large garden …’ or ‘Ideally it would be near a shopping centre …’. 
Students can then deliver their talk. This could be done in pairs, or if space permits and
students have access to mobile phones, they could record themselves doing the talk.
The recording could then be used to reflect on their performance. 
 
The second activity gives students the chance to practise using prepositions of place
whilst they describe their favourite room to their partner. You could model the activity
first by describing your own favourite room. Simply draw a plan view (that is from
above) of the layout of the room with furniture, doors and windows. Describe your room
to the students and ask them to draw what they hear you say. Students can then
compare their drawings with your own. 
The worksheet asks students to draw a room in a place where they are currently living.
However, this could also be a room in their family accommodation if they are currently
living away from home.
3. Worksheet 3 
 
There is a recording of a student’s answer to the Part 2 Long Turn on the IELTS
Speaking website and the transcript and our feedback appears in Worksheet 3. 
 
This was a good attempt by Baya. He uses some advanced vocabulary throughout and
the final half of the talk is particularly fluent. Unfortunately, the recording isn’t as clear
as it could be but hopefully your students will be able to follow the talk.
Post Lesson Activities
Ask students to prepare for the following lesson on the subject of ‘clothes and fashion’
by visiting this page: 
http://www.ieltsspeaking.co.uk/ielts-clothes-fashion-vocabulary/
Answers to Worksheet 1: Pronunciation  
A) HOME B) GET C) PUT D) TAKE E) BUYERS F) HOUSING G) RENTED
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The materials for the following activities include:

• read through the vocabulary page on the subject of ‘Accommodation’:

Published by Flo-Joe for ieltsspeaking.co.uk

Post Lesson Activities

Answers to Worksheet 1: Pronunciation

A) HOME B) GET C) PUT D) TAKE E) BUYERS F) HOUSING G) RENTED

Published by Flo-Joe for ieltsspeaking.co.uk

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