City and country life

Vocabulary

1. Do you live in a city, town or village?

2. Tick the words that you can use to talk about your homeplace.

cottage castle house block of flats hill field lake forest bridge farmland flowerbed trees pharmacy school bakery clothes shop street road footpath alley taxi truck bus bicycle

3. Match the words to make phrases.

town / street / car / cycle / of interest / of fruit trees / of people / tall

1) ____ lane 2) ____ market 3) ____ square 4) places ____ 5) ____ traffic 6) ____ building 7) crowds ____ 8) orchard ____

4. Put the words from ex. 2-3 into city, the country, both. Discuss with the class. What else can you add to each of the categories?

the country

Both

city

5. Complete the sentences using the correct word.

1) It’s good to get away from the city/town and visit the field/country. 2) You can take the bus from here to the city central/centre. 3) Would you like to live in a city, a small town or a villa/village? 4) When you leave the country/land you must show your passport. 5) Do you know where Bonn is? People say it’s a nice part/place. 6) Paris is the capital/head city of France. 7) I come from a small state/town in Wales.

adjectives

6. Match the adjectives with their opposites.

1) calm 2) clean 3) quiet 4) dangerous 5) wide 6) tall 7) expensive 8) modern 9) friendly 10) rich a) old b) poor c) low d) cheap e) nervous f) noisy g) safe h) busy i) narrow j) dirty

7. What can the places below be like? Match the adjectives from ex.6 with these nouns.

Adjectives Nouns

streets place city/town shops buildings people

listEning

8. Complete the texts with the correct adjectives. Then listen and check.

clean / easy / friendly / quiet / safe

It’s 1)___ because people know each other. People are 2) ____. There isn’t much traffic and noise, so it’s 3) ____ and the air is 4) ____. It’s 5) ____ to be active and healthy – to walk and get into nature, eat fresh food.

fresh / big / tasty / easy

It’s 6) ____ to travel around because there is lots of public transport like buses and trams. You don’t always drive a car. There are lots of restaurants. The food is 7) ____ and 8) ____. There are lots of shops, and they are 9) ____ so there is more choice.

graMMar prepositions of place

9. Study the table and complete the phrases with the appropriate prepositions.

Remember!

We use:

At (position, point) – for address:

Ex: I’m meeting Mark at the corner. In (space with limits) – for buildings, cities, countries:

Ex: Alice is in the shop. On (surface) – for street:

Ex: The bank is on 1st Main Street. 1) ___ the floor 2) ___ the shops 3) ___ Japan 4) ___ school 5) ___ Baker Street 6) ___ forest 7) ___ bridge 8) ___ 31 Baker Street 9) ___ Kyiv 10) ___ bakery

10. Fill in the correct preposition.

1) I live ___ York ___ 42 East Street, and Jane lives ___West Street. 2) My mother works ___ the clothes shop ___ the town centre. 3) I’m ___ the supermarket. Dad is waiting for me ___ the station. 4) On Sundays my parents stay ___ home and work ___ the garden. 5) We eat lunch ___ Camden Town when we visit London. 6) In England, they drive ___ the other side of the road! 7) We are having a walk ___ Hyde Park. 8) It’s 4 o'clock ___ Australia now. 9) My house is ___ the middle of a big park. 10) ___ the city centre there is a bank and a small post office. 11) ___ Cosmotown there aren’t any schools! 12) There are some food and clothes stores ___ Main Street. 13) There is a nice theatre ___ the end of this street.

spEaking

11. Work in pairs. Ask and answer the questions in pairs. Give your own answers. Make up some more questions using in, at, on.

1) Where do you live (country, city, address)?

2) How can you describe your city/town/village?

I live … Ukraine / … Kyiv/ … Green Street, 31. My city is … . The village/town I live in is … .

3) What is there in your city/town centre, on your street, at the shopping mall?

4) What do you like about the place where you live?

I like the cinema and the skate park. I like that I know everyone in the town.

5) What do you dislike about it?

I don’t like the traffic! There are a lot of cars on the street near the school. It’s so noisy! We don’t have a cinema or a cafe; there isn’t any interesting place to go to – it’s terrible!