House rules speaking with can and have to

household vocabulary/ modals of obligation, permission and prohibition

Thinking about topics like those below, do the activity or activities from here that your teacher tells you to:

  • Find things in common between the rules of somewhere you have lived and somewhere your partner has lived
  • Find differences between the rules of somewhere you have lived and somewhere your partner has
  • Find house rules which you have experienced that are stricter than those which your partner has experienced
  • Decide what the best house rules would be

Possible house rules topics

  • Animals (pets, etc)
  • Appearance (clothes, etc)
  • Bathroom/ Toilet
  • Bed/ Bedroom
  • Damage
  • Different rooms/ Different places
  • Dirt/ Cleaning
  • Entering and leaving
  • Food and drink (meals, snacks, cooking, etc)
  • Footwear (shoes, slippers, etc)
  • Housework
  • Making decisions
  • Money
  • Outside
  • Plants
  • Possessions/ Your things
  • Safety
  • Shared things/ Shared spaces/ Sharing
  • Speaking
  • Tidiness
  • Times (bedtime, etc)
  • Using things/ Borrowing things
  • Visitors
  • Where things go
  • Technology
  • Music
Useful phrases for doing the activities
Do you have to…?/ Can you…?/ Do you have any rules about…?How about you?

Discuss rules about technology and then music as a class.

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Related pages

Modals of obligation, prohibition and permission page

Household vocabulary page

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