Renting Forever: Dream or Trap?

Short overview of the lesson:

• Discuss general questions about renting, owning and living with family.
• Compare which housing values fit older and younger generations.
• Watch two short videos and compare them with your own opinions.
• Read authentic social-media comments and say whose opinion you share.
• Match eight key phrases about money and housing to their meanings.
• Combine sentence halves correctly using target vocabulary.
• Discuss money, financial security and settling down in pairs.
• Choose and rank your top priorities when picking a home.
• Note the pros of renting and buying and weigh up the speaker's rule.
• Debate the statement "Renting forever is a new kind of freedom."
• Play a game: decide if a person should rent or buy and defend your choice.
• Role-play a sneaky estate agent and a suspicious buyer.
• Find and correct common mistakes with target phrases.
• Write two comments from different generations' points of view.
• Rewrite a simple text, making it richer with lesson phrases.
• Interview an older person about buying a home back in their day.
• Revise the key vocabulary with a Quizlet set.