Rooms of the House Vocabulary Games – 6 Fun, No-Prep Activities
Include these no-prep vocabulary games in your Rooms of the House lesson for a fun and engaging way to teach or review room names with beginner ESL students. Each game focuses on different aspects of house-related vocabulary, such as rooms in a house and common furniture found in them. You can use these activities to review key words or extend them to practice full sentence structures and expressions like “Where’s Mum?” – “She’s in the living room.”
Rooms of the House Hidden Picture Game
How to Play
This activity can be used as an intro or warm-up to activate students’ existing knowledge of rooms in the house, or as a review activity at the end of the lesson to help them recall new vocabulary.
To play, simply show the video to your students. There are 10 rounds, each revealing a picture of a room (such as living room, bedroom, etc.) hidden behind colored shapes that disappear one by one.
If playing as a whole class, you can:
- Ask students to raise their hands when they want to guess
- Or let them shout out the answer for a fast-paced game
Variation: Give each student a small set of rooms of the house flashcards and have them hold up the correct card to show their answer.
This makes for a simple, low-pressure activity that engages students while practicing both vocabulary and sentence patterns like “She’s in the kitchen.”
Rooms of the House Telepathy Game
How to Play
This fun telepathy-style game is a great way to review both vocabulary and full sentence structures related to rooms in the house. There are 10 rounds, and in each one, students will see a question like “Where’s Mum?” along with two possible answers (e.g., “She’s in the kitchen.” / “She’s in the bathroom.”).
Students must choose one answer and write it down. The twist is that they have to read the teacher’s mind to figure out the correct one. After students make their guess, play the video to reveal the answer.
Tip: Students love pretending they have telepathic powers. To make it more engaging, you can pretend to “send” them the answer using the power of your mind. It adds a playful, energetic touch to the activity.
Room-Specific Vocabulary Games
These four games focus on vocabulary related to furniture and everyday items found in specific rooms of the house. Each video features a different room, such as the kitchen, bedroom, bathroom, or living room, and students must identify key items as they are slowly revealed. These activities are great for reviewing words like “sofa,” “toilet,” “bed,” or “fridge,” and can also be used to practice full expressions like “The fridge is in the kitchen.”
More Resources to Support Your Rooms of the House Lesson
To follow up these games with more structured practice, check out our printable Rooms of the House Worksheets which cover reading, writing, and vocabulary activities. You can also use our ready-made Rooms of the House PowerPoint lesson to introduce the topic or guide students through a complete lesson step by step.