Real Estate

 زمینی جائداد

Proficiency level: Intermediate Low 

Time: 70 minutes

Objectives: Students will be able to:

  • describe a house and how it looks
  • explain what people do in each room
  • express likes and dislikes about a house and its decoration, and explain why

Performance Assessment:

  • Students create a house plan and describe it to potential ‘buyers’/’renters’
  • Students give a tour of a celebrity home describing the various features
  • Students show and describe a house they would like to move into

Learning Scenarios:

  1. 15 minutes – Students bring in newspaper ads and describe houses to try to persuade their classmates to buy them. Students listen to each presentation, take notes, and then move about the classroom trying to match their notes with the pictures of the various houses that are displayed on the bulletin board.
  2. 15 minutes – As a follow-up activity, students prepare their own home plans in Urdu as a homework assignment. They label the different parts and special features of the house. Working in groups in class, each group selects one plan to sell to the rest of the class. Each member of the group shares the responsibility of describing the house in Urdu. As other students hear the presentations, they fill a chart of features they like or don’t like about each house.
  3. 10 minutes – “House Tour” has students giving tours of celebrity’s houses. They stroll about the classroom, indicating where various parts of the imaginary house are located. The teacher and class are paid participants in the tour and must react in Urdu to features they see.
  4. 15 minutes – Students work to create a blueprint of a room or apartment. Using a blueprint form created with a computerized program such as HyperStudio, students label areas and draw furnishings as they listen to the teacher or another student describe the room.
  5. 15 minutes – “Moving Time,” half the class prepares a description of a home they would like to move into, while the other half prepares a description of a home they would like to sell or rent. Students then move around the classroom trying to find potential matches.