Choose one of the boxes below and draw it until your partner guesses what your sketch is. You can use numbers and symbols, but no words or letters.
| (door) knob | (electrical) socket | apartment/ flat | armchair |
| balcony | bamboo | bathtub | bin/ trash can |
| blinds | bush | calligraphy | candle |
| caravan | carport | cellar/ basement | central heating |
| charcoal | coal fire | condominium/ condo | congestion |
| core | cot | cottage | detached (house) |
| double glazing | drive/ driveway | dump truck | fall apart |
| fireplace | flood/ flooding | fluorescent strip | fold |
| gate | green spaces | grill/ lattice | hedge |
| high rise flats | housing estate | hut | ivy |
| lift/ elevator | loft/ attic | mansion | mechanical pencil/ automatic pencil |
| mobile home/ trailer | peephole | radiator | ramshackle |
| recess | reed/ rush | scroll | semi-detached (house) |
| shower cubicle | shutter | skyline | skyscraper |
| smoke detector | straw | studio/ studio apartment/ studio flat | suburb(s) |
| terraced (house) | thatched (roof) | wardrobe/ closet |
Ex. 4. Choose one of the things above and draw it until your partner guesses. You can use numbers and symbols but no letters or words.
Ex. 5. Choose one of the things above and explain its appearance without mentioning its materials, color or function so that your partner can draw it and guess what you are talking about. You might want to explain its shape, size, normal direction and positions. It might help if you draw it first somewhere your partner cant see and then describe that drawing to them.
Ex. 6. Draw lines across the list below to divide it into categories of language that is useful for describing buildings.
Wall Top right corner Back Front
Roof/ Top Entrance Left hand side Flat
Steep Tiled Thatched Wide/ Broad
Narrow Long Tall/ High Thin Thick Square
Semi-circle Pentagon Right angled triangle Rectangle/ oblong
Ellipse/ oval/ egg shape Diamond Much wider By far the tallest
A little bit thicker On Above Under In In front of
Opposite Behind Next to Pyramid Cone Arch
Cut off cone Tube Cube Extended cube Hemisphere
Spiral/ Helix Transparent/ Translucent Glowing/ Shining/ Lit up Reflective
Straight Zigzag/ Spiky Parallel Curve/ Bend Bumpy/ Wavy/ Wiggly Sand Stone Wood Fabric Glass
Brick Vertical Horizontal Diagonal At ninety degrees
At forty-five degrees Stairs Escalator Elevator/ Lift Ramp
Ex. 7. Ask your partner about any of the words you dont understand and ask them to explain in English.
Ex. 8. Work together to quickly draw each of those things.
Ex. 9.Draw a building that you need at least three things from the lists to describe and explain it to your partner until they have drawn it correctly.
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Ex. 10. Choose one of the pictures on the page your teacher gives you that is easy to describe and do so until your partner has produced a reasonable picture of it. You can mention materials and colors this time if it helps.
GRAMMAR: The Complex Object
The Complex Object consists of a noun in the common case or pronoun in the objective case and the Infinitive. Object + Predicate + noun (pronoun) + Infinitive
Example: I want mother to help me. They expect the steamer to leave tonight.
The Complex Object is used after the verbs:
of mental activity: to know, to think, to consider, to believe, to find, to expect.
of declaring: to pronounce, to declare, to report, to teach.
denoting wish and attention: to want, to wish, to desire, to intend.
Denoting feeling and emotion: to like, to dislike, to hate.
Denoting order and permission: to allow, to suffer, to ask (for), to command, to forbid.
Denoting sense perception: to hear, to see, to watch, to feel, to observe, to notice etc.
