EL In the Home 01 (The Yard: Lesson )

EL In the Home 1

(The Yard)

A house is a building which you and your family live. A house has many rooms in it that meet the needs of those living in it.

What is a house?

A yard is the land that is around the house. There are different parts of the yard. There is the front yard, the back yard, and the side yard.

Yard

​The front yard is the yard in the front of the house. It is between the front door and the street. Many front yards have a drive way cutting through it.

Front yard

The backyard is the part of the yard that is behind the house. Backyards sometimes have swimming pools or patios. The backyard is sometimes bigger than the front yard.

Backyard

The side yard is the part of the yard that is beside the house. Many times people have their AC unit stored there.

Side yard

Match

Match the following

Front yard

Beanie

Backyard

Hand

Side yard

• Front yard

• Beanie

• Backyard

• Hand

• Side yard

The porch is sometimes called the "front porch", It is a like the living room, but outside.

Porch

The driveway is either a grove or asphalt road that leads directly to your garage. It cuts through your yard.

​​Driveway

The mailbox is the box on a pole which the mailman puts your mail. Sometimes mailboxes are connected to the house.

​​Mailbox

The doorbell is a button you press, which rings. You press it to let people in a house know that you are there.

​​Doorbell

Things in the front yard.

Match

Match the following

Snowball

Driveway

Mailbox

Porch

Doorbell

• Snowball

• Driveway

• Mailbox

• Porch

• Doorbell

Match

Match the following

Backyard

Foggy

Rainy

Doorbell

Front yard

• Backyard

• Foggy

• Rainy

• Doorbell

• Front yard

Sometimes people have a back porch in their backyard. A back porch is a porch, but in the back of the house.

​​Back Porch

A patio is like a back porch, but bigger. Usually, back porches are connected to pools, however, they may not.

Patio

A swimming pool is a body of water made for people to swim in. They are usually in the back of peoples yards.

​​Swimming Pool

A fence is either a metal or wooded wall that divides one yard from another.

Fence

Things in the backyard.

Quiz

*Try your best to remember how to spell the words.

Some text here about the topic of discussion

Match

Match the following

Front yard

Icicle

Snowman

Backyard

Slip

• Front yard

• Icicle

• Snowman

• Backyard

• Slip

Match

Match the following

Sideyard

Fall

Porch

Puddle

Doorbell

• Sideyard

• Fall

• Porch

• Puddle

• Doorbell

Match

Match the following

Pond

Mailbox

Fall

Cloudy

Dry

• Pond

• Mailbox

• Fall

• Cloudy

• Dry

Match

Match the following

Rain coat

Pool

Puddle

Snowy

Thunderstorm

• Rain coat

• Pool

• Puddle

• Snowy

• Thunderstorm

Match

Match the following

Lightning

Slipping

Rolling

Shoulders

Chin

• Lightning

• Slipping

• Rolling

• Shoulders

• Chin

Match

Match the following

Skull

Scapula

Gloves

Jeans

Melt

• Skull

• Scapula

• Gloves

• Jeans

• Melt

When you jump, you are pushing your legs off the ground to make your body go up. You jump over things. There is many reasons you may want to jump.

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Jump

The man with sunglasses is jumping over the fence.

​​Over

The runner with a t-shirt and shorts is jumping into the sand.

​​Into / in

The man is jumping out of the window.

​​Out / out of

The man is jumping off the roof.

Off

​​Jumping

​Carlos and Oswaldo

Carlos and Oswaldo live in a small house. The house has a small front yard and a big backyard. In the front yard, there is a front porch with a broken porch swing. Oswaldo broke the porch swing after jumping on top of it. The front yard also has a drive way that goes to the garage. Carlos keeps his old and beat up car in the garage. Oswaldo spends much of his time in the backyard on the patio. Oswaldo's favorite thing to do is water the flowers and mow the grass with the lawn mower. There used to be pretty flowers in the side yard. But there is no flowers now. Oswaldo mowed over the flowers.

When someone breaks something, it means they destroy it. When something is broke, it means that it doesn't work the way that it is supposed to.

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The girl broke the plate.

​​Break / broke

When you jump on something, it means that you are jumping and going on top some object. The man in the picture is jumping on the box.

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The man jumps on the box.

​​Jump on

A porch swing is a wooden sofa that hangs from the ceiling. Porch swings can be sat on and swung back and forth. Porch swings are on front porches.

​​Porch swing

A lawn mower is a machine that cuts grass. People use lawn mowers to cut the grass in their yard so that their yard looks nice. Lawn mowers have blades under them which cuts the grass.

​​Lawnmower

Match

Match the following

Break

Jump on

Lawnmower

Porch swing

Jump in

• Break

• Jump on

• Lawnmower

• Porch swing

• Jump in

Carlos and Oswaldo live in a small house.

​​Small house

In the front yard, there is a front porch with a broken porch swing.

​​Broken porch swing

Carlos keeps his old and beat up car in the garage.

​​Old / beat up car

Oswaldo's favorite thing to do is water the flowers and mow the grass with the lawn mower.

Mowing the lawn

​Carlos and Oswaldo

Carlos and Oswaldo live in a small house. The house has a small front yard and a big backyard. In the front yard, there is a front porch with a broken porch swing. Oswaldo broke the porch swing after jumping on top of it. The front yard also has a drive way that goes to the garage. Carlos keeps his old and beat up car in the garage. Oswaldo spends much of his time in the backyard on the patio. Oswaldo's favorite thing to do is water the flowers and mow the grass with the lawn mower. There used to be pretty flowers in the side yard. But there is no flowers now. Oswaldo mowed over the flowers.

Draw

Draw a picture of Carlos and Oswaldo's house.

Multiple Choice

What is he doing?

• Jumping on

• Jumping in

• Jumping out

• Jumping off

Multiple Choice

What are they doing?

• Jumping off

• Jumping in

• Jumping on

• Jumping out

Multiple Choice

What is she doing?

• Fixing

• Slipping

• Jumping

• Breaking

• Blooming

Multiple Choice

What is he doing?

• Jumping in

• Jumping out

• Jumping off

• Jumping on

Multiple Choice

What is the panda doing?

• Jumping on

• Falling

• Slipping

• Breaking

Multiple Choice

What is she doing?

• Running

• Breaking

• Jumping

• Mowing

Multiple Choice

What is the cat doing?

• Jumping over

• Jumping on

• Jumping in

• Jumping out

• Jumping off

Milvia's House

Milvia lives in a house all by herself. She has a very big front yard and a very small back yard. In her front yard she has three trees. In the fall all the leaves of the trees fall away. Milvia has to rake the leaves every fall. Milvia uses a rake to rake all the leaves. However, raking the leaves is a lot of work. She really wants a leaf blower. A leaf blower will blow and shoot air to push the leaves. She asks her friend Carlos if he has a leaf blower. Carlos has a leaf blower in his garage beside his old and beat up car. Carlos lends the leaf blower to Milvia. When Milvia tries to use the leaf blower, it does not work. The leaf blower is broken.

A rake is a tool for gathering leaves. Takes help people people put leaves in a pile.

​​Rake

Raking is the action of moving leaves with a rake. When you rake leaves, you are pushing them.

​​Raking

A leaf blower is a machine that blows air. The air pushes leaves.

​​Leaf blower

Blowing is the action of moving air. People blow on things to either cool something or move something with air.

​​Blow

Match

Match the following

Rake

Raking

Blowing

Leaf blower

Wither

• Rake

• Raking

• Blowing

• Leaf blower

• Wither

Milvia's House

Milvia lives in a house all by herself. She has a very big front yard and a very small back yard. In her front yard she has three trees. In the fall all the leaves of the trees fall away. Milvia has to rake the leaves every fall. Milvia uses a rake to rake all the leaves. However, raking the leaves is a lot of work. She really wants a leaf blower. A leaf blower will blow and shoot air to push the leaves. She asks her friend Carlos if he has a leaf blower. Carlos has a leaf blower in his garage beside his old and beat up car. Carlos lends the leaf blower to Milvia. When Milvia tries to use the leaf blower, it does not work. The leaf blower is broken.

Draw

Draw a picture of Milvia's front yard.