In the cities and countryside section of Busy Teacher, there are 149 FREE worksheets to choose from. They range from very simple word searches to detailed activities related to these topics. This activity, for example, was created for Russian ESL learners but can serve as a model for you to create a similar activity more appropriate for your students. Some nice details on this worksheet include the translations of important words, the colorful images, and the fact that after completing this exercise, students should be able to create a similar article about the town they live in. You could do this as a class, in groups, or individually depending on your students and class size. Take a look at other worksheets to find something your students will enjoy.
It is good to talk about different places, compare them, and be able to describe them to people. Students will enjoy sharing their views of certain locations and some will certainly feel very strongly about cities while others will prefer the countryside. This division could set you up for a debate about the positive and negative characteristics of each. Despite your personal opinion, try to remain neutral and simply facilitate the discussion. This is just one way to incorporate this topic into your lessons.
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An activity to practice places in the town. Cut the set into dominoes cards and get students to work in pairs or a group of three. Each student takes 7 cards and remember students are not all ...
A different way of teaching parts of the house and giving directions. Classes with practice of prepositions and parts of the house are going to be more interesting and challenging. You can practic ...
This worksheet complements a 9-minute video posted on youtube and made by students at Boston University. Have the students review the worksheet and ask any questions they have. Then, have them w ...
This worsheet use vocabulary of places in town mostly for beginners or elementary levels. It is very easy and fun. It can be used as a warmer or for homework. Students will be able to work and get ...
Vocabulary sheet covering types of tourist places. A simple match-up activity, plus an extra activity that can be used to reinforce knowledge by matching real-life examples with the new vocabulary ...
The activity is designed for a speaking class with elementary/pre-intermediate students to describe different areas: city and the neighborhood ares. The students have to describe the picture using ...
Students complete the sentences using the adjectives in the box. It's an activity to complement a describing places lesson and it also works with fairly, very, pretty in order to emphazise th ...
The Atacama desert…The perfect place for people who are looking for adventure... This text about one of the most attractive places in the world is supported with a number of exercises which ...
The worksheet appropriate to lead students to think critically about the differences between rural and urban life style. The paper includes a phrasal verb exercise, group discussion, and a so ...
This is a warm up to talk about problems in students' neighborhood. It will provide students with a chance to give advice to each other. Besides, practice the conversation and discuss ...
These “Buligings in the City Flash Cards” are very useful in the classroom to introduce new words for beginner and elementary students. I have designed them so that they can be edited ...
This worksheet was designed for the TED talk by Robert Hammond "Building A Park In The Sky." I made it for my intermediate students, when we covered the topic 'Urban Life.' It includes the pre-wat ...
This is a matching activity for revising places in town related vocabulary. Recommended for elementary students who are asked to match the pictures with the words given. The worksheet is avai ...
Fun way to practice places in town vocab as a warmer/cooler. I used flashcards from the Learn English Kids website. I put flashcards around the teaching center. Make sure they are hidden in places ...
This is a Ppt about some places you would finnd in a city. It contains images of the following places: airport, museum, restaurant, harbour, mountain, mall, beach, cathedral, bridge, fountain, par ...
This is a text about living in Stockholm( + 3 exercises). Skills to be developed: reading and understanding,work with a dictionary and speaking( answering questions about the text and some ideas f ...
This is a reading activity for Intermediate and Upper Intermediate students. The worksheet includes a vocabulary practice part and a text that follows. In the first part the students are to match ...
These are two dice for teaching or revising shops and places in town related vocabulary. Recommended for elementary students who are asked to to roll both dice and then make a sentence by using t ...
This is a domino worksheet prepared for beginners who learnt to be, nationalities, numbers and some other very basic words. What they need to do is to pair all the pieces, so that domino is comple ...
Well the first part of the guide is necessary to create a word puzzle and paste here with the words of the story. So students can familiarize first with the vocabulary of the story and then solve ...
Student 'A' receives 'Adventure Travel' Handout 'A' - Student 'B' receives 'Adventure Travel' Handout 'B'. Without looking at each other's handout, they should describe their travel ads to each o ...
Something different to add to your carnival class with teens or adults, this listening worksheet consists of true/false gist questions and multiple choice detailed listening questions. Answer key ...
This is an easy worksheet for ESL pupils to practice the vocabulary of 'the farm'. I used it with 15-year old pupils who enjoyed it very much. You can use this worksheet as practice as well a ...
Students should look at the map of a town and describe it using the right prepositions of place: on the left/right of ..., near, opposite, in front of, behind, between, in. This worksheet may be u ...
I have used this presentation as a transformer for different level. If I have a beginner group, I show them till the last two slides. If i have an elementary group, I play riddles with them. So I ...
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