What do you like to do at home?

How do you like to spend time with your family?

Do you prefer to watch television or read? What books and TV programmes do you like?

Do you like to cook? What sort of food do you like to cook? What’s your favourite meal?

Do you like to listen to music? What type of music do you like?

Discuss:

What can you see in these photographs?

Are the people in the photographs happy? How can you tell?

How do you relax at home?

Can you describe how you feel when you are at home?

Illustration of a big gathering at a rural British dinner table in 1907. People are laughing, talking, eating, and drinking.

The Squire Gives A Harvest Supper by Tom Browne, 1907. Catalogue reference: COPY 1/326 (174d)

Two St Lucian men crouching on the ground and playing a game of dominoes. They wear white shirts and hats. They are surrounded by a crowd of onlookers.

Soufriere Bank Holiday games, St Lucia, 1910-1950. Catalogue reference: CO 1069/383 (5)

Painting of a young person sitting on a chair and playing the guitar. He has short blonde hair and wears a yellow jumper.

Painting of a young person playing a guitar by Drakie Brookshaw, 1964. Catalogue reference: NSC 64/3

Illustration of a Japanese woman kneeling by a koto instrument, plucking its strings as it sits on the ground. A small child stands in front of her and watches.

Japanese woman playing a koto (a Japanese instrument) with a child, 1939-1946. Catalogue reference: INF 3/1832

Black and white photograph of an Afro-Caribbean woman sewing as she listens to a radio on the table next to her. She is surrounded by family photos and decorative objects.

A farm worker listens to her radio during a lunch-time break, Montserrat, 1961. Catalogue reference: INF 10/173/3

Illustration of a white British woman sitting by a sewing machine. Multiple copies of the soldier's clothing that she is sewing fly behind her in an artistic representation of her work.

Woman making uniforms on sewing machine, 1939 – 1945. Catalogue reference: INF 3/1757

Poster featuring an illustration of a white British family in their backyard. The mother and father stand together in the doorway and watch the young boy and girl play on a swing tied to a tree.

Poster: Worth Saving for their future-keep on Saving, 1945. Catalogue reference: NSC 5/159

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