A house is the place a child knows better than anywhere else in the world, so this topic has no comprehension problem at all. The only job is putting English labels on things they already understand. It is also a natural door into There is and There are, the structure for saying what a place contains, and one that turns up in exams at every level.
The core words
- Rooms: bedroom, bathroom, kitchen, living room
- Parts of the house: door, window, wall, floor, roof
- Basic furniture: bed, table, chair, television, refrigerator (the long one children are enormously proud of once they can say it)
- A cultural link: plenty of Thai homes have no clearly separate living room. Open it up and ask what rooms their house really has. It doesn't have to match the textbook.
The main task: the dream house
Hand out paper and let them draw the floor plan of their dream house, labelling every room in English, then describe it in writing: There is a big kitchen. There are two bedrooms. They'll add a swimming pool, a games room, a room just for snacks. Let them. The bigger the dream, the more they have to write. And when they present it at the front, the others genuinely listen, because everyone wants to know whose house is best.
Finish with a worksheet that matches rooms to activities: sleep with bedroom, cook with kitchen. It pulls the verbs back in for revision at the same time.