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com/ for educational purposes

Where Have I Slept?

Types of Beds

By Prof. Jonathan Acuña-Solano, M. Ed.

Head of Curriculum Development Senior Language Professor

Academic Department School of English
Centro Cultural Costarricense- Faculty of Social Sciences
Norteamericano Universidad Latina de Costa Rica

Wednesday, April 1, 2020

Post 344 / Vocabulary 006

Our sleeping time is one of those moments we all treasure because we

want to wake up the next morning feeling restful. And our sleeping quarters can
also be a good conversation starter for a class when talking about sleeping
habits or similar topics. The sample activities provided here intend to have
students produce and use English to discuss types of beds.

Here you are presented with six types of types of beds that we can work
with our students. We can ask them for their preferences, but we can also
venture into asking them to think about their bedrooms so they provide with
detailed descriptions of where they sleep and changes they would like to make in
their bedrooms.

Double Bed Cot

Bunk Bed Sofa Bed

Hammock Four-Poster Bed

Sample Activity 1 – Where I prefer to sleep

Provide your students with one of these conversation cards. Have them
work in pairs and as soon as their conversation is over, move them to exchange
information with another partner.

Student A Student B
Ask your partner about the kind of bed Ask your partner about where he/she
he/she used to sleep on in his/her
bedroom. Also ask him/her about
other types of beds he/she has used
in the past and which ones he/she
finds comfortable and which ones,
uncomfortable. Ask him/her if he/she
slept on a bunkbed as a child.
has slept when going on vacation to
the beach. Ask him/her if he/she has
slept on a hammock. Also ask his if
he/she has slept on a cot when visiting
relatives in other cities or towns. Ask
him/her if he/she has slept on a
bunkbed.

Sample Activity 2 – Describing my sleeping quarters

A second option is to have our learners continue productively speaking or

writing about their bedrooms. This is a very good exercise to have students
describe a where they sleep at home by providing details.

Describing my sleeping quarters

Size of my bedroom
Number of windows in my bedroom
Size of my closet
Type of bed I sleep on
Type of mattress I sleep on
Number of bedside tables
How comfortable is my bed
What I want to change/add in my bedroom

Exercise CEFR rage A1+

Bloom’s Taxonomy layer Apply: sketch, interpret
Understand: describe, select
References

Images taken just for educational purposes from:

1) Double Bed https://www.archiproducts.com/
2) Cot https://www.amazon.com/
3) Bunk Bed https://www.amazon.com/
4) Sofa Bed http://www.cupssilicfficiu.ga/
5) Hammock https://www.ebay.co.uk/
6) Four-Poster Bed https://www.overstock.ca/
7) Bloom’s taxonomy https://twitter.com/profkhalid_ksa/status/1056576381751119872