Download this free B2–C1 English worksheet PDF for adult learners and English teachers. This lesson explores the pleasures and tensions of hosting friends or relatives, including routines, boundaries, hospitality, resentment and communication.
Students practise reading comprehension, useful vocabulary, phrase matching and speaking skills through a real-world lifestyle and relationships topic about house guests, shared spaces, personal boundaries, helping with chores and managing tension. The worksheet is suitable for private English lessons, online classes, advanced conversation practice and homework before a discussion lesson.
The article explains that hosting can create more relaxed time together. Hosts may enjoy relaxed breakfasts and long conversations, while guests can stay later without having to rush for the last train home. At the same time, hosting turns a private space into a shared one, making differences in sleeping habits, food, tidiness, temperature and bathroom routines much more noticeable.
This worksheet encourages learners to discuss what makes someone a good host or guest. Students consider how much guests should pitch in, when hosts should draw the line over behaviour, whether visitors can wear out their welcome, and why people sometimes avoid direct conversations even when tension is obvious.
The article also explores the role of clear expectations. Students read that agreeing roughly how long someone will stay, whether meals are shared and how much independence each person wants can prevent tension. A short conversation may also clear the air before irritation damages the relationship.
The PDF includes a B2–C1 reading article, True / False questions, Phrase Match, Synonym Match, a task where students use new language, discussion questions and a full answer key. It helps learners discuss hospitality, resentment, boundaries, shared routines, cultural differences, practical help and how overnight visits can change friendships.
Level: B2–C1
Date: 24 September 2026
Focus: reading, vocabulary, house guests, hospitality, boundaries and speaking
This free worksheet includes:
- a B2–C1 reading text about house guests and hosting
- True / False comprehension questions
- Phrase Match practice with useful expressions
- Synonym Match vocabulary practice
- a sentence-writing task using new language
- discussion questions for Student A and Student B
- full answer key
The worksheet includes useful phrases such as look forward to, settle in, make yourself at home, get on each other’s nerves, pitch in, work around, draw the line, wear out your welcome, clear the air and see someone off. It also practises vocabulary such as ideal, visible, overlap, resentful, roughly, independence, irritation, appreciate, behaviour and exhausting.
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