Houses, Rooms & Furniture ESL Games, Activities & Worksheets
Home Vocabulary Flashcards & Worksheet
ESL Home Vocabulary Flashcards and Worksheet - Flashcards: Eliciting, Drilling, Sentence Frames - Vocabulary Exercises: Matching, Categorising
In this home vocabulary resource, students learn 12 common nouns related to houses, rooms and furniture and practice them with flashcards and a worksheet...
Home Vocabulary Riddles
ESL Home Vocabulary Game - Listening, Speaking and Vocabulary: Describing, Guessing - Pair Work
In this home vocabulary game, students review 12 common nouns for homes, rooms, furniture and parts of a home by listening to clues and guessing the words. In pair, students take turns picking...
Home Vocabulary Snap
ESL Home Vocabulary Game - Vocabulary: Matching, Controlled Practice - Pair Work
In this home vocabulary snap game, students practice 12 common nouns for homes, rooms, furniture and parts of a home by matching pictures with corresponding words. In pairs, both students turn over a card from their pile at the same time and place it...
Rooms and Parts of a House
ESL Rooms and Parts of a House Worksheet - Vocabulary Exercises: Matching, Gap-fill, Listing, Ranking - Speaking Activity: Asking and Answering Questions - Pair Work
In this free house vocabulary worksheet, students learn and practice vocabulary for rooms and parts of a house. First, students discuss two house-related...
What furniture did they buy?
ESL Furniture Activity - Vocabulary and Speaking: Information Gap, Asking and Answering Questions, Gap-fill, Controlled Practice - Pair Work
Here is a useful furniture vocabulary activity to help students practice words related to furniture and household items. In pairs, students take turns...
Are you in the kitchen?
ESL Houses and Rooms Game - Vocabulary: Sentence Completion, Miming, Guessing
This engaging houses and rooms vocabulary game helps students practice making associations between particular activities and different rooms or parts of a house. First, students complete a sentence on a card with an activity that is associated...
Find the Furniture
ESL Furniture Game - Vocabulary and Speaking: Matching, Asking and Answering Questions, Controlled Practice - Group Work
In this productive furniture vocabulary game, students match furniture and household item picture cards to word cards and ask and answer 'Is there...?'/'Are there...?' questions using the vocabulary...
Home Sweet Home
ESL Furniture Board Game - Vocabulary and Speaking: Gap-fill, Impromptu Speech, Communicative Practice - Group Work
Here is a fast-paced furniture board game to help students practice vocabulary related to furniture and household equipment. Students take turns picking up a card and reading the sentence to the other...
Faulty Furnishings
ESL Furniture Activity - Vocabulary and Speaking: Information Gap, Asking and Answering Questions, Table Completion, Unscrambling, Matching - Group Work
Here is a free furniture vocabulary speaking activity to help students practice words related to furniture and things found in the home. In the activity...
Furniture and Decor Dash
ESL Rooms and Furniture Game - Vocabulary: Brainstorming, Listing - Pair Work
In this enjoyable rooms and furniture vocabulary game, students brainstorm furniture and decor words for different parts of a house. Start the game by calling out a random part of the house...
Make Yourselves at Home
ESL Houses, Rooms and Furniture Activity - Vocabulary and Speaking: Gap-fill, Information Gap, Asking and Answering Questions, Matching - Group and Pair Work
In this fun house vocabulary speaking activity, students complete instructions for staying in someone's house and then race to exchange information for different parts...
Around the House
ESL Houses, Rooms and Furniture Game - Vocabulary and Speaking: Describing, Guessing - Group Work
In this imaginative houses, rooms and furniture game, students play taboo by describing and guessing topic-related words. In groups, students take turns picking up a card without showing it to...
Décor Detectives
ESL Houses, Rooms and Furniture Game - Vocabulary and Speaking: Asking and Answering Questions, Guessing, Controlled and Freer practice - Group and Pair Work
In this entertaining house vocabulary game, students answer home and decor questions and try to hide a word in their responses for a partner to guess. In two...
Home and Decor Debates
ESL Houses, Rooms and Furniture Activity - Vocabulary and Speaking: Gap-fill, Discussion, Controlled and Freer Practice - Pair Work
In this insightful houses, rooms and furniture speaking activity, students practice home and decor vocabulary and talk about different home and decor options...
House of Curiosities
ESL Houses, Rooms and Furniture Activity - Vocabulary: Writing and Giving Clues, Guessing - Group and Pair Work
In this creative house-related vocabulary activity, students complete a crossword by describing and guessing words related to houses, rooms and furniture. In two groups, students invent and write...
Using Vocabulary for Houses, Rooms and Furniture
Vocabulary for houses, rooms and furniture includes the names of living spaces, parts of a building and items used in a home. Connecting these words with location and purpose helps students describe a room, explain what an item is for and exchange information about a home.
This page has 14 resources across A1, A1-A2, A2, B1 and B2, including games, a worksheet and speaking activities, with two free downloads.
The table connects home vocabulary with meanings and short examples.
| Word or phrase | Meaning or use | Example |
|---|---|---|
| living room | A room for relaxing and spending time together | 'There is a sofa in the living room.' |
| wardrobe | A cupboard for keeping clothes | 'My coats are in the wardrobe.' |
| cupboard | A storage space with doors and usually shelves | 'The cups are in the kitchen cupboard.' |
| shelf | A flat surface for storing or displaying things | 'The books are on the shelf.' |
| furniture | Items such as chairs, tables and beds | 'We need some furniture for the flat.' |
| household item | An object used in the home | 'A kettle is a household item.' |
How to Use Vocabulary for Houses, Rooms and Furniture
Locate an item clearly: Add the room and a position when someone needs to find something. 'The lamp is on the table beside the sofa' is more helpful than simply saying it is in the living room.
Explain purpose when a word is unfamiliar: Describe what people do with an object. 'It is a cupboard where we keep clothes' gives a listener a clue to the word 'wardrobe' and helps the conversation continue.
Describe a problem precisely: Name the item and the part that needs attention. 'One leg of the chair is loose' gives more useful information than 'The chair is bad'.
3-Step Framework for Teaching Houses, Rooms and Furniture Vocabulary
This sequence suits elementary classes, moving from recognising home vocabulary to understanding clues and exchanging information.
1. Match Words with Pictures: Students turn over picture and word cards together, calling 'Snap!' when they match. This checks recognition of common home vocabulary before students identify the same kinds of words from spoken descriptions.
2. Identify Objects from Clues: Students read clues to a partner, who guesses using 'It is a/an...'. A correct answer after the first clue earns two points; a second clue offers another chance for one point. The clues connect words with their features and uses, preparing students to understand descriptions in an information exchange.
3. Exchange and Interpret Information: Students ask a partner about furniture purchases and prices to complete a table. They then use the information together to complete sentences identifying the items. This gives questions and descriptions a purpose: working out what each person bought.
Common Mistakes with Houses, Rooms and Furniture Vocabulary
Making furniture plural: 'Furniture' is uncountable. Use 'some furniture' for a general quantity or 'pieces of furniture' when counting items. Incorrect: 'We bought three furnitures.' Correct: 'We bought three pieces of furniture.'
Using in for an object resting on a surface: Use 'on' when something rests on a table or shelf; 'in' describes being inside something. Incorrect for this meaning: 'The vase is in the table.' Correct: 'The vase is on the table.'
Common Questions About Teaching Houses, Rooms and Furniture Vocabulary
What game helps students practice furniture vocabulary?
The game Find the Furniture combines picture matching with questions about rooms. Students turn over cards to find matching words and pictures, then ask an 'Is there...?' or 'Are there...?' question about an appropriate room. Keeping the pair depends on a correct question, linking vocabulary recognition with sentence formation.
What worksheet can I use for teaching rooms and parts of a house?
The free worksheet Rooms and Parts of a House moves from picture matching to personal choices. Students complete sentences, add examples and rank house features by importance. They explain their priorities to a partner and ask home-related questions, giving the vocabulary a purpose beyond identifying rooms in pictures.
How can students practice talking about furniture and household items?
The free speaking activity Faulty Furnishings gives students a reason to describe household items. Each student has a role card about a purchase with a problem. They exchange information about its intended location and fault, record the answers and identify the items, using descriptive clues to work out the furniture vocabulary.
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