Adults 3

Lesson 2.1 - September 29th

 Unit 2: City care
*Topic: the impact of new construction in the community and the environment.

*Problem Posing: How much is too much in city development?

*Target Language: Prepositions of place. Future tense with “be going to”. / Places
and buildings in the city. Surroundings and facilities.
 Can Do’s
01 02
Reading Listening
Es capaz de seguir direcciones escritas Es capaz de comprender preguntas e
simples y cortas (e.g. Para ir de X a Y). instrucciones dirigidas lenta y
cuidadosamente a él y es capaz de
seguir direcciones cortas y simples.

Assessment
● Listening: “going to places downtown”
● Reading: “Comuna 13”
Game
01
Cities
Big and small
 Discussion
1. What makes a city big or small?

2. Read “The Best Place To Live”

3. What small cities have you visited? Can you

compare them to Medellín?
Downtown Vocabulary

Parking garage
Office building
Hotel
DVM (department of motor vehicles)
Bank
Police station
Bus station
City hall
Hospital
Gas station
Post office
Fire station
Courthouse
Restaurant
Activity Roulette Library
Church
02
Medellín
What do you like about the
city?
 If we want to say that something exists or doesn't exist somewhere or at some time, we
There is
There’s a → Consonants
There’s an → Vowels
There is 1
● There’s a building
● There’s an agency
● There is 1 stadium
● There isn’t a beach
● There was a/an
● There will be a/an
● There’s going to be
often use 'there + be*'.
There are
Singular
Plural Always there are + noun
Examples
● There are bicycles
Examples
● There are 5 dogs
● There aren’t any people
Past / Future ● There are some tomatoes
● There were
Past / Future
● There will be
● There are going to be
 There is / There are (present)
We use these expressions to talk about what exists or not in a place, now

Singular Plural
Positive There is (there’s) There are

Negative There isn’t There aren’t

*Singular: when we talk about something in singular we must use the

articles A or An or the quantity

A: consonants
An: vowels
 What is a place you like?
Talk about your favourite places? show the class!

1 2 3
Location Possibilities Medellín VS.
Talk about where What people can Compare to
the place is do there (there Medellín
is/are)
Example: My place is Marinilla, there is a church and there are beautiful
landscapes, but there isn’t a metro or a planetarium there. We
have more green areas and more animals in most houses tha in
Medellín.
Comparatives → To compare 2 things
To compare we use adjectives

Short Long

Big, small, old, young, tall, Intelligent, beautiful,

short, smart... expensive, dangerous,
Good → better than interesting...
Bad → worse than

Adj -er + than More + adj + than

Pitalito is smaller than The Amazon river is more
Medellin dangerous than the
Medellin river
Superlatives → To compare 2+ things
To compare we use adjectives

Short Long

Big, small, old, young, tall, Intelligent, beautiful,

short, smart... expensive, dangerous,
Good → the best interesting...
Bad → the worst

The + adj -est More + adj + than

The sun is the biggest star This book is the most
in the Solar System interesting book i’ve read
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Surroundings
What’s around here?
★ Prepositions of Place - English Grammar ★ Prepositions in English Grammar (lingolia.com)
 Practice!
1. Kahoot! | Prepositions of place
2. Kahoot! | Prepositions and the city
3. Exercise on Prepositions - 07 - English Grammar (ego4u.com)
 Pair work
Practice the prepositions in pairs, describing pictures:

Student A Student B
Student A sees a picture on the Student B draws on pic. 2,
screen (pic. 1) and describes it following the instructions.

A3 - Map Activity
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Directions
What’s around here?
 Close to

Straight on
★ Prepositions of Place - English Grammar ★ Prepositions in English Grammar (lingolia.com)
 Roundabout
Left /roundpoint
Turn
Take the 4th
exit

ht
rig
rn
Tu

ight
Go stra
on
 Oviedo
And
rés
de Carn
Res e

Pan
ame
rica
na
An
Ca drés
rne
Res de

Pan
a me
rica
na
And
rés
de Carn
Res e
Vocabulary: Directions
 Vocabulary: Directions

Res e
de Carn
Ca drés
Res de
rne
An

rés
And
Traffic Lights
Oviedo

Res e
de Carn

na

na
rica

rica
rés

me

me
And

a
a

Pan
Pan
Opposite Next to Go past Roundabout

Take the second right Turn right Go straight on Turn left Take the second left
 Pair Work
Work in pairs think of a well known place, and guide each other through
a map and see if you can get there.

Mystery 1 Mystery 2
To go to this place you To go to this place you
turn …. should go to...
do I
o …?
re

is
ay
Listening
assessment (30%)
 Visitors and hosts
1. Individually in a piece of paper: write the instructions to go from a point to your house.

2. Visitors pick one set of instructions from the bag and follow, when you get to your
destination ask: Who lives in …?

3. The visitor asks the hosts talk about the neighborhood and its surroundings, if the guest
likes it or not and why, etc.

4. Then switch.

Visitors Hosts
What do you like about your Yes! I like it a lot!
neighbourhood? There’s a public park and a library too!
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Where do you
live?
Visitors and hosts
Practice Links

Vocab Activities Video

Giving Directions Asking and giving Asking for and
in English - Games directions giving directions -
to learn English | exercises - YouTube
Games to learn locations
English (agendaweb.org)
(engames.eu)
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Comunas in
Medellín
What is there in a comuna?
● Comuna 16 (Belen) : Sandro and Marce
● Comuna 11 (Laureles): Gloria and Sandra
● Comuna 15 (Guayabal) : Martha and Ana
● Comuna 12 (La America) : Robinson and Victor

Work in pairs and visit your comuna, are there parks? Libraries? Supermarkets? (there is/are)
 Reading Assessment (30%)

Done!
Read Answer Write
Comuna 13: Answer the 5 Create and
History and proposed answer 5 more
Present. questions. questions.
Thanks!
Do you have any questions?

Ángela María Cely

acelyal@eafit.edu.co