Lesson Plans & Worksheets: Places

Describing places you live words and phrases speaking

Practising comparative by talking about similarities and differences between places.

A fun card game to practise describing places and comparative adjectives, with many adjectives of place names.

Count and non-count nouns practice by comparing places.

Like as a verb and preposition practice talking about places

Putting adjectives in the right order before nouns practice as students describe natural and urban places, including useful names of places vocabulary.

Students guess the places with and without "the" like "France" and "The Big Apple", then try to remember which places and which kinds of places need the definite article.

A fun giving basic directions game, practising turn right, go straight ahead, etc with a memory card game.

Simple and more complicated directions practice through a fun coin game, including checking the instructions and giving directions by email.

Checking students understand and helping them memorise directions vocabulary and functional language phrases through fun drawing games, including similar and different but easily confused directions language.

Practising speculating with modals of deduction etc with a guessing game, including names of places vocabulary.

Students find positions that they share with their partner like having things in the same places in their house, good for prepositions of location and GTKY/ classroom dynamics.

Three fun practice games for names of places and Present Progressive, with a guessing game and two drawing games.

Describing places with present tenses activities

Two yes/ no questions with want to personalised speaking games, including names of places practice in the second getting positive responses game.

Names of places and there is/ are practice with a fun guessing game, including vocabulary of things in places such as furniture.

General knowledge quiz on changes in place names for fun, interesting and educational practice of used to for talking about the past, also useful for learning place names in English and their pronunciation.