TALKING ABOUT MY CITY AND NEIGHBOURHOOD
How many places do you know in your neighbourhood? Where are they? Do you know how to get there?
You will find some online activities you can go through in order to improve your ability to identify important places in your neighbourhood and the locations they have by asking and giving directions.
BUILDINGS AND PLACES
Revise and learn this vocabulary about the different places in a city. Click on the links below.
Places in town
http://learnenglishteens.britishcouncil.org/grammar-vocabulary/vocabulary-exercises/placestown
http://www.englishexercises.org/makeagame/viewgame.asp?id=6165
http://www.englishexercises.org/makeagame/viewgame.asp?id=7669
Around town
http://learnenglishteens.britishcouncil.org/grammar-vocabulary/vocabulary-exercises/around-town
Describing a city / town
Download the worksheet and do the exercises with your teammates. Post your answers on your team Padlet.
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B0QCCHxYM3fbbm4xVS1hMHB0alE
How many places do you know in your neighbourhood? Where are they? Do you know how to get there?
You will find some online activities you can go through in order to improve your ability to identify important places in your neighbourhood and the locations they have by asking and giving directions.
BUILDINGS AND PLACES
Revise and learn this vocabulary about the different places in a city. Click on the links below.
Places in town
http://learnenglishteens.britishcouncil.org/grammar-vocabulary/vocabulary-exercises/placestown
http://www.englishexercises.org/makeagame/viewgame.asp?id=6165
http://www.englishexercises.org/makeagame/viewgame.asp?id=7669
Around town
http://learnenglishteens.britishcouncil.org/grammar-vocabulary/vocabulary-exercises/around-town
Describing a city / town
Download the worksheet and do the exercises with your teammates. Post your answers on your team Padlet.
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B0QCCHxYM3fbbm4xVS1hMHB0alE
HOW TO GET TO A PLACE IN MY NEIGHBOURHOOD
Giving & Asking for directions
1. Watch these two videos:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKmK30rYNMU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDEuyJwOiyA
2. Then go to the website
http://learnenglishteens.britishcouncil.org/skills/listening-skills-practice/giving-directions
3. Do the preparation exercise before you listen. Then do the other exercises to check your understanding.
4. Listen to the Giving directions audio file.
5. Check your understanding:
5.1. write the place that the speaker gives directions to
5.2. fill the gaps with the correct word to complete the directions
6. Let’s study prepositions of place. Click on the link below. First, watch the video and do the exercise.
http://www.englishexercises.org/makeagame/viewgame.asp?id=597
http://s.mound.free.fr/skyblues67/prepositions/preposqcm.htm
7. Look at the map below and locate the places.
8. Speaking: How can I get to ...?
You will roleplay the conversation you and your teammates have previously written in front of your classmates. In this conversation two of you will pretend to be tourists who are asking information about two places in the neighbourhood you want to visit and the others will be the citizens who will give them directions to get to get there.
You will roleplay the conversation you and your teammates have previously written in front of your classmates. In this conversation two of you will pretend to be tourists who are asking information about two places in the neighbourhood you want to visit and the others will be the citizens who will give them directions to get to get there.
TALKING ABOUT MY HOME
- Download worksheet High Street map on your tablet.
- Look at the map and decide what type of houses are shown. Before you do this task, please check the vocabulary you need in the Resources Tab on this website.
- Watch a video about a typical British neighbourhood.
- As you watch, you should use High Street map worksheet and put the correct house number and character with each home. Play the video twice.
- Finally, do Tasks 1-6. Type your answers. Click on the link below to download the file on your tablet.
- Post the worksheet with your answers on your team Padlet.