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FUNCTIONS English 9
• Talking about locations of things
• Asking about and describing neighborhood Theme 2
• Making comparisons
My Environment
3. Read Sally’s sentences about her neighborhood. What are they about? Work in pairs and L2
write SF (sports facilities), SO (shopping opportunities), S (safety), P (peacefulness), EF
(education facilities).

1. ____ There are shopping malls nearby. SO
2. ____ There are surveillance cameras for each street.

3. ____ We live very close to the school district.
4. ____ There is a tennis court, a soccer pitch and a volleyball court in our neighborhood.
5. ____ It is not noisy, at all.

4. The sentences below complete the ones in Part 3. Read Part 3 Part 4
them and do the matching in the table. Sentence Number Sentence Letter
a. The kids don’t need a school bus. 1 F
b. It is safe. 2 F
c. It is a peaceful neighborhood. 3 F
d. But they are not enough. A lot of people do sports regularly. 4 F
e. Most people don’t need to take a taxi or bus to go shopping. 5 F

5. Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of the given neighborhoods for you. Use
comparative and superlative forms of adjectives.

A B C

Population 13032 Population 12501 Population 20213

Crime rates 5% Crime rates 1% Crime rates 3%
Distance to the city center 2 km Distance to the city center 7 km Distance to the city center 13 km

Number of parks 7 Number of parks 9 Number of parks 5

Number of sports facilities 10 Number of sports facilities 12 Number of sports facilities 8

E.g. I love sports and my favorite neighborhood is B. Because it has more sports facilities than the other two.
A has the highest crime rate. It is not so safe as the other two.

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