Students learn the vocabulary for rooms and spaces in their homes by making a video. Show them an example video with upper and lower differentiated tasks on the accompanying slides for you to print. Let them read the full script. Then set the homework and enjoy hearing them use the vocabulary about their own houses.

Some errors in future sentences Irregular future stems What you will do this week and when you will be able to help in a garden The good and the bad things about different holiday destinations

Present or review numbers 1 to 24. Talk about advent calendars, and present the idea of making a chain 24 loops long to be reduced by a loop a day until Christmas. Give teams the strips and ask them to arrange the strips in order before using sellotape or stickers to make them into a chain. Strengthen the chain by laminating sheets back to back. The child who removes the loop on a given day can wear it like a bracelet for the day/ lesson. Learners can have their own print outs to take home, decorate and make up into a chain.

Vocabulary of furniture and renting apartments, finding the right flat for people's needs, and offering your house in an exchange programme.

Learn the endings for the future verb forms\nLearn a few common irregular stems\nTalk and write about future holidays

Children learn to say we give thanks, who to give thanks to - Mother Earth in this case, and what to give thanks for - fruit in this case. They sing a song and make a greetings card. There is a youtube video of me teaching this lesson to 3 puppets (!) at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBMPqk4Pybk