A teacher of class VII asks her learners to bring at least two or three…

“Teaching aids” are resources used in a lesson to make learning concrete, contextual, and engaging. Within teaching aids, “realia” specifically means real, everyday objects (not replicas, pictures, or specially-designed teaching materials) that are brought into the classroom and used directly as a learning resource. Because realia are authentic and tangible, they let learners connect language to real-world referents and practise descriptive or functional language around genuine items.

In the given scenario, the teacher has students bring actual physical objects from home, exchange them, and describe them using language. These items are functioning exactly as realia: authentic real-world objects used as a resource for descriptive language practice — not as printed materials, teacher-prepared resources, or an abstract category of “input.”

• “Home objects” only names where the items came from; it is not the technical pedagogical term for objects used as classroom teaching resources.

• “Teachers materials” describes resources a teacher prepares or supplies for a lesson (worksheets, charts, textbooks), not everyday items students bring in from outside.

• “Inputs for language learning” is a broad category covering any source of language exposure (texts, audio, teacher talk); it does not specifically denote physical objects used as concrete teaching aids.

Hence, the objects the students bring, exchange, and describe are correctly termed realia.