Lesson 1. City Life
B1
B1, Lesson 1. City Life
At the end of this lesson, students will be able to:
1. Enumerate different places in the city 2. Discuss various types of houses
3. Classify the function of places
4. Give directions using appropriate phrases
5. Describe and discuss characteristics of different places
6. Share personal experiences using present perfect tense
7. Distinguish different phonic sound of /th/
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Warm Up
Discuss the questions with the class.
• Which place would your like to live and why?
• Where did you grow up? In a big city or a small town? Did
you like it? Why / why not?
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Warm Up
Describe each of the picture and tell the class what type of house you live in a and describe it.
I lived in terraced house. It has three
bedrooms.
apartment/flat terraced house
bungalow detached house
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Warm Up
How many riddles can you answer?
How about your hometown?
Share it to the class.
• A place where there are lots of houses, stores, and other
buildings.
• A town is smaller than a city.
• A place where you live or work.
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Speaking Drill
What can we do at these places?
• What other places in town can you add?
• Tell us the places that you usually go to in your town.
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7 8 9 10 11 12
13 14 15 16
airport hotel museum flower shop supermarket library
hardware store hospital health club bank restaurant garage
post office laundromat bakery shop movie theatre
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Stores and Buildings
Discuss with the class where do we usually do these activities.
1. buy skis 2. buy gas 3. eat meals
4. cash a check 5. buy a hammer 6. borrow books 7. watch a film 8. see the mayor 9. buy flowers
10. get my car fixed 11. get a haircut
12. buy a computer
13. rent a room for the night 14. leave my baby for the day 15. buy paper, pen, pencil
16. sit and relax or have a picnic 17. get a diploma
18. get medication 19. buy fresh bread 20. wash my clothes
21. get medical services 22. get my teeth checked 23. send a letter
24. buy cereals, dairy products
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Vocabulary Build Up
Match the word with its meaning.
1. An area of water where ships stop and the buildings around it.
2. An area that is quite far from the big city, traditionally poorer.
3. The part of a city where there are many shops, banks, restaurant, and cafes.
4. A richer residential area near a city, but away from its centre with its own local public facilities.
5. An open area in a city or a town with buildings around it.
6. The area in the city where the engineers work.
7. The area near the centre of the city for lower-income residential districts.
8. A very tall building.
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Speaking Drill
Discuss the photos. Use these words.
city centre factory inner city outskirts
square suburbs port skyscraper
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Listening Activity
Listening 1.1
Listen to four people talking about houses or places in a city.
Which place from the picture does each person talk about?
1. ________________
2. ________________
3. ________________
4. ________________
apartment/flat inner city
detached house
outskirts
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Pro Reading Exercise
Complete the direction to Tony’s adviser’s house. Choose the
right word.
1. From our school, walk _____ (get//along) Main St. to Central and turn _____ (straight/left).2. At Central Ave. you will see a bus stop on your _____ (left/
right), _____ (across/next) the post office.
3. _____ (continue/corner) straight at Central Ave and turn _____ (left/right) at Fifth St.
4. Go _____ (along/stop) at Fifth St then turn _____
(right/left) at Park Ave.
5. _____ (go/right) straight at Park Ave. You will see a bus stop on your _____ (corner/left).
6. Turn _____ (right/left) to Rolling Rd. Go _____ (along/cross) to Holly Lane.
7. Turn _____ (right/straight) to Holly Lane and the house is
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Reading Time
Tony was very disappointed last night. All the other students in his class went to a party at their adviser's house, but he never got there. He followed his adviser's directions, but he made one little mistake.
From their school, he walked along Main Street to Central Avenue two blocks to the bus stop at the corner, across from the post office. He took the Central Avenue bus and got off at Fifth Street. He turned left and walked along Fifth street
three blocks to Park Avenue and turned right. He walked up Park Avenue one block to the bus stop at the corner of Park Avenue and Sixth Street.
He took Bus #42, but he got off at the wrong stop. He got off at River Road instead of Rolling Road. He turned left and walked along River Road one block. He turned left again and walked two blocks, turned right, and completely got lost.
Tony was veyr. He really wanted to go to the party last night, and he can't believe he made such a terrible mistake.
Tony Never Got There
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Reading Check Up
Read the sentences. Then circle the T (True) or F (False).
Vocabulary Spotlight
adviser
a person who guides and gives advice to students 1. Tony's adviser lives on Holly Lane. (T/F)
2. The central avenue bus stop is across the (T/F) post office.
3. The adviser had little mistake with the directions (T/F)
4. The school is on Main Street. (T/F)
5. Tony took the wrong bus. (T/F)
6. Bus #42 goes to Rolling Road. (T/F)
7. Tony got off the bus at Rolling Road. (T/F) 8. Tony didn't want to go to the party last night. (T/F)
1. Would you feel upset too if you were Tony? Why or why not?
2. What would you have done if you were the adviser?
3. What would you have done if you were Tony?
4. Have you ever been lost? If you have, tell the story to the class.
5. How do most people in your country go places?
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Giving Directions
If you’re in a new town or city and you want to know where a place
or building is, these are useful phrases for asking directions. There are also phrases for giving directions to other people who ask you for help.
How you can ask for directions.
Say "Excuse me" before you ask a person. To make it sound like a question, make your voice go up on "me".
"Excuse me. How do I get to (the railway station) please?"
Giving directions
The person who helps you often says how near or far the place is:
"It's about five minutes from here."
Specific instructions
Here are some useful words and phrases for giving directions on the street. Maybe you're helping a driver, or someone who stops you to ask for directions.
• "Turn left/right/"
• "Go straight on at the lights/when you come to the crossroads." (Lights = traffic lights: crossroads = where two roads cross).
• "Go across the roundabout/" (Roundabout = where all the cars go round a circle in the middle of the road).
"Take the first turning/road/street on your left/right/" (Turning = road that goes left or right)
"You'll see/You'll come to a b (bank). Then..."
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Useful Expressions
At the corner Around the corner from On the right
On the left Across from the street from Next to
The restaurant is next to The supermarket is across the The post office is around the
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Listen and Watch
http://youtube.be/5lkl_1f-aYQ
Preview the questions first
and watch this short video.
(click the subtitle for the transcript)
1. Where do you think the people in the video are?
2. What place is the couple looking for?
3. Why do you think the man decided to help the couple?
4. Would you have done the same thing if you were the man?
5. What interesting thing have you learned from the video?
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Along the Street
Practice the small dialogue with your teacher or your friend.
A: Excuse me, can you tell me how to go to the laundromat from here?
B: Sure. Walk up to Main Street and you'll see the laundromat
on the right, across the drug store.library? barber shop? toy sore?
clinic? police station? drug store?
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Speaking Drill – City Life
Talk about the following about your city.
city at night food at the city skyscrapers transportations
technology expressways city park city crowd
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Community Features
Which of the following is a “must have” and/or a facility or place
that you “would like to have” in the place you’re living in? Answer in complete sentences.
Places Must Have Would like to have
Community We must have a community I would like to have a
Pool pool because... community pool because...
Concert Hall Laundromat Public Library Zoo
Ice Cream Store
Theme Park
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Vocabulary Build Up
Match the word with its meaning.
1. Not interesting or exciting, boring.
2. Calm and quiet, free from
3. Relating to history or past events.
4. The region outside the capital city.
5. Full of loud and non-musical sounds and voices.
6. Containing people and things from different parts of the world.
7. Contaminated with harmful substances that could be harmful to people and living things.
8. Having a lot of industries and factories.
9. Full of life and energy.
10. Full of people.
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Language Focus
Present Perfect
Present Perfect
Present Perfect is used to:
tell an activity that began in the past and continue up until now.
• I have been a teacher since 2014.
talk about events that have (or haven't) happened before now.
• Have you finished your homework?
express a repeated event from a point in the past up to present time.
• She has had three tests so far this term.
Structure:
(+) Subject + has/have + verb 3 (past participle) + object + adverb (time or place)
(-) Subject + has/have + not + verb 3 (past participle) + object + adverb (time or place) (?) Has/have + subject + verb 3 (past participle) + object + adverb (time or place)
Adverb of time: since, for, already, yet, once, twice CONTRACTIONS - They've = They have - He's = He has
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Let’s Practice
Complete each sentence with the correct form of present perfect.
1. The population of India _____ (grow) by about 40% between 1990 and 2000.
2. The world population _____ (go) up since 1950.
3. When you look around, you can see that this city _____ (change) a lot.
4. Just before 2015 they _____ (build) a lot of new buildings in Seattle.
5. Zaha Hadid is a famous architect. She _____ (design) a lot of amazing buildings.
6. Mexico City is enormous. It _____ (be) one of the largest cities in the world for many years.
7. James Dean _____ (be) a great actor. He died in 1955.
8. I love traveling. I _____ (visit) lots of amazing places.
9. The population of nearly 160 Chinese cities _____ (reach) 1 million.
10. Norwegian builders _____ (construct) several eco-cities in the recent years.
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Let’s Practice
Choose the correct answer to complete the text.
Have you _____ (yet/ever) thought about what it's like living in a skyscraper?
London didn't _____ (use/used) to have any very tall skyscrapers, but in the last twenty years they have _____ (staring/started) appearing in different parts of the city. In the Shard, which is London's tallest skyscraper, there are 87 floors of apartment. They haven't sold them all _____ (yesterday/yet), probably because they are expensive. One thing that people who live in the Shad have _____ (already/never) learnt is that you need to think before you leave your apartment.
One day, a man went down from his flat on the 65th floor to the main door. Then, he realized that he had forgotten his mobile phone! Of course, everyone asks the same question, "What happens if he lift _____ (doesn't/don't) work?" The good news is that there are 44 lifts in total in the Shard, and they repair the broken lift quickly so the people who live there have _____ (ever/never) needed to walk up
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Speaking Drill
Share your experience using present perfect.
1. Have you ever been on a plane? What was/were our destination(s)?
2. Have you swum in the swimming pool this year?
3. Have you ever visited a unique restaurant around your area?
Tell us the story.
4. What movie have you seen in the cinema for the past three months?
5. Have you ever seen strange things happened in your area?
Tell us the story.
6. What kind of activities have you done in a mall?
7. Have you planned any of the upcoming holidays yet?
8. Have you been to a place you'll never forget?
9. Have you been to an extremely far place?
10. Have you experienced going to a very strange place?
