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THEME 2 MY ENVIRONMENT

FUNCTIONS
9 GRADE F1 Talking about locations of things
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F2
Asking about and describing neighbourhood
F3 Making comparisons
9 Listening
This activity aims to help students to improve their listening skills and to be familiar with the vocabulary
related to the description of a city.

Materials and Preparation
Photocopy the worksheet in the link below for each student.
https://learnenglishteens.britishcouncil.org/sites/teens/files/tour_of_london_-_exercises_4.pdf
Then, prepare the audio that is in the QR code.

Procedure
1 Hand out the worksheets to students. Ask them to read the worksheet before listening to the audio
so that they can be familiar with the topic and the vocabulary used. Have them work in pairs to
match the pictures with the words given.
2 Remind them that the preparation part on the worksheet will be studied in pairs, but the rest of the
activities will be done individually.
3 If needed, play the audio once again. When they have finished the activity, check the answers with
the class. If the last part on the worksheet is not suitable for the students, skip it. Instead, have them
write a similar dialogue about their city's attractions and act it out.
4 Then, have the class vote to choose their friends who acted the dialogue out the best and explain
why they voted for them.

10 Time to Read!

This activity aims to develop students’ ability to sequence events in a text and helps them practise,
and improve their reading skills and recall the vocabulary they have learned previously. It also helps
students understand and extract essential information from a text, in addition to picking out concrete
information.
Materials and Preparation
Photocopy the Jumbled Sentences worksheet on page 48 for each group and cut up the sentences
before the class. For the next activity, print out and photocopy the worksheet on page 49 for each
student.
Procedure
1 As a warm up activity, ask students a few questions about their neighbourhood. For example, “Do
you live in a flat or a house? How many rooms are there in your home? Who do you live with? What
is your neighbourhood like? Is it noisy or quiet?”.
2 Ask students to work in pairs and hand out the jumbled sentences to each group.
3 Explain that they are going to arrange and put them in the correct order to make meaningful
paragraphs.
4 When all groups have completed their task, hand out the second worksheet for each student to
check the paragraphs they have made.
5 Then, ask them to read the text again to answer the questions.
6 After the worksheet is over, check the answers with the class.
7 Finally, have students work in pairs to discuss the advantages and disadvantages of living in a big
city. Then, remind them to share their ideas with the class.
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