Learning English

Places in a city

Asking about locations of places:

• Excuse me. Where's the ___?
   
• Is the ___ around here?
  

Places:
airport / bank / car park / cinema / dry cleaners
gas station / gym / hotel / museum / pool / post office
restaurant / stadium / station / university / zoo

Photo credit: Ian Muttoo on flickr.com

"Excuse me. Where's the dry cleaners?"

Go to Genki English and listen to a hip hop song:
Excuse me. Where's the...?

1. Listen to the questions in the song.
   (They start with "Where's the ...?)
   
   
2. Look at the pictures and click the words you hear.
   (Place words: dry cleaners, university, gas station, etc.)
   
   
3. When you finish, count your score.
   

Spelling practice: Places around town

A: Where's the library.

B: It's downtown across from the bus station.

There are many places downtown. Do you like to go downtown?

Learn to spell some place words.

Click on a job in this Spelling.com spelling list. Click on a place word in the list. Listen to the spelling of the word. There are 10 place words

Go to the game page to play a game and practice spelling the words.

• Scroll down and click on HangMouse to play a Hangman game.
• Scroll down and click on Unscramble to spell the words.
  Click on the letters and drag them to the box in the correct order.
• You can play any of the activities under Free Activities.

How was your vacation?

Here is a slide show of a vacation in Mexico.
My vacation was great. I met many friendly people and took many photos.

Did you take a vacation last summer? 
Where did you go? Make a slide show with 2 or 3 photos. Share it with the class. Tell your classmates about your vacation and what you did.

How was it?
(It was great! / It was fun. / It was exciting. / It was relaxing. / It was boring.)

What did you do?
(I went swimming. / I met interesting people. / I visited my cousin. / I saw beautiful mountains. )

Take a poll
Click on your favorite vacation place. If it's not on the list, write,
your favorite place in the blank space next to "Other."

Then click on "View Results" to see where other people like to
take vacations.

A song: Lemon Tree (I'm sitting here.)

Songs: Days of the Week

Practice vocabulary words in songs. Listen to the
song, Friday, I'm in Love by The Cure. Listen for
for the days of the week. Read the lyrics. Sing
the song!

Last One Standing - It's Friday, I'm in Love c

 

Listen to the days of the week in a rap song by Jack.

 Days of the Week: Rap Back from EFL 2.0 on Vimeo.

Fruit salad - Yummy, yummy!

Listen to the song, Fruit Salad - Yummy Yummy by the Wiggles. Read the words as you listen to the song.

Now watch 5 funny 'cooks" make a fruit salad. They explain how they prepare the salad and sing the Fruit Salad Yummy Yummy song.

Weather vocabulary in a song and in a video

 Listen to weather words in this song.


Lilyboom

Listen to the weather words in these street interviews.

The Marzio School - Real English Videos

A conversation about the weather

In this silent movie two people talk about the weather in three different places:

• in the desert
• in their countries
• in New York City

Listen to hear about the weather conditions in each place.

To talk about the weather, ask these questions:

• What's the weather like today?
• How's the weather in your country?
• How's the weather in the city you live in now?
• What is your favorite kind of weather?