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THEME 2 MY ENVIRONMENT

FUNCTIONS
9 GRADE F1 Talking about locations of things
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Asking about and describing neighbourhood
F2
F3 Making comparisons
11 Reading

This activity aims to help students to 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 worksheet in the link below for each student.
https://learnenglishteens.britishcouncil.org/sites/teens/files/finding_a_home_-_exercises_3.pdf

Procedure
1 Hand out the worksheets to students. Before students start the text, as a motivating starting point,
ask them a few questions to check what they know about the location of a house that they would like
to live in. For example, “Whereabouts in the city do you want to live? Why?” or “What kinds of facilities
do you want to be closed to your house? Why?” can be asked as a warm-up activity.
2 Ask them to work in pairs to write the correct word below the pictures and study the unknown
vocabulary in the text. Remind them that they are supposed to read the text and do the rest of the
activities in the text individually.
3 After the worksheet is over, check the correct answers with the class. Then, have students draw
the best home for themselves and present it to the class, explaining why they would like to live in
that house. After the presentations, let them ask and answer questions about each other's houses
reciprocally.

12 Describing Photos

This activity helps students to compare two cities using the comparative form of the adjectives.

Materials and Preparation
Print out and photocopy the worksheet on page 50 for each student before the class.

Procedure
1 Hand out each student a worksheet and ask them to look at the photos.
2 Encourage them to talk about the given photos on the worksheet and ask them to discuss the
differences between the two cities. Remind them that they will use the given adjectives when
comparing the two cities. You can ask a few questions about the cities as a warm-up activity to check
what they know about them. For example “Where is Prague/Dubai? What country is Prague/Dubai
in? What do you know about Prague/Dubai? Why is Prague/Dubai so special? What is the currency of
the Czech Republic/United Arab Emirates?“.
3 When they have completed the task, ask students to write a short paragraph to compare the two
cities they have discussed previously in Exercise A.

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