Ex.3. Describing architecture drawing games.

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 can’t 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 don’t 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.

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.