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Where, Where?
A Warmer

Where do you live? I live in Verona.

Do you live in a house or an
apartment? I live in a apartment.
Where is your apartment? My
apartment is near the park.

Where does your granny live? She

lives in a village near Verona. Where
does your dad work? He works in an
office. Where does your mum work?
She works at a restaurant. Where
does your sister go to school? She
goes to a nearby elementary school.

B Vocabulary and grammar

Present Simple questions: Do/does + infinitive?

Where/what/when… do/does + infinitive?
Prepositions of places: next to, opposite, behind, in front of, between

Put a do or does symbol on the line in each question!

DO = DOES =

______you like chocolate?

______ your mother drive a car?
______ your best friend go to the same class as you?
______ your parents often watch TV?
______ you play tennis?
______ your teacher wear glasses?
______ you get up early?
______ your pet eat meat?
______ eagles fly?
______ an elephant live in a jungle?

Now ask your classmates the same questions! Let them ask you, too!

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B Vocabulary and grammar

Look at the map and write where the places are!

Use: next to, opposite, behind, in front of and between!

play-
ground restaurant
market
school butcher's church bank

baker's museum post office station

1. Where is the playground? It’s ________ the school.

2. Where is the butcher’s? It’s ________ ________ ________the restaurant.
3. Where is the museum? It’s ________ ________ the post office and ________
the church.
4. Where is the bank? It’s ________ ________ the church and ________ the post
office.
5. Where is the post office? It’s ________ the museum and the station.
6. Where is the station? It’s ________ ________ the post office and ________ the
market.
7. Where is the baker’s? It’s ________ the butcher’s.
8. Where is the restaurant? It’s ________ the butcher’s.
9. Where is the school? It’s ________ ________ ________ the playground.
10. Where is the church? It’s ________ the museum and ________ ________ the
bank.

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C Reading and Writing

Write do or does in the questions! Then, answer the questions in your

notebook!
1. Where _________ you live?
2. Where _________ your grandmother live?
3. Where _________ your friend go to school?
4. Where _________ you eat your lunch?
5. When _________ you usually go to bed?
6. When _________ your parents go to bed?
7. When _________ your best friend do his/her
homework?
8. When _________ your teacher start work?
9. What _________ your mother like doing?
10.What _________ you like reading?
11.What _________ your father wear at work?
12.What _________ your grandpa like eating?

D Speaking

Play the game with your classmates! Listen to your teacher’s orders and then
take turns in giving orders!

Maria, stand next to Paolo!

Marco, stand behind Peter!
Paolo, stand between Maria and Martha!
Peter, stand in front of Paolo!
Martha, stand opposite Marco!
Now, it’s your turn to give orders, (Maria)!

Act out the scene in the town!

A: Excuse me, where is the post office?

B: It’s over there, opposite the church.
A: Thank you!
B: You’re welcome!

A: Excuse me, where is the playground?

B: Go straight ahead, then turn right. It’s behind the school.
A: Thank you!
B: Not at all!

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Teacher Notes
Vocabulary: prepositions of places
Target Language:
Present Simple Questions
Duration: 45 minutes

1 Structure and Timing (all times approximate)

A. Warmer (10 minutes)

B. Vocabulary and grammar (15 minutes)
C. Reading and writing (10 minutes)
D. Speaking (10 minutes)

Total: 45 minutes.

2 Procedure

A. Warmer

Ask the students questions about themselves and their family and friends. They are
supposed to answer them and ask the same question another student. Group the
questions in DO and DOES categories to make it easier for students to learn the
difference between the two. You can also write DO on the board while asking such
questions, and DOES while asking the questions using the third person.

B. Vocabulary and Grammar

Teach your students how to recognize infinitive or a base form of a verb. Explain when
to use DO or DOES in questions and draw the signs for them on the board. Make a few
questions while pointing to the right sign on the board. After that, ask the students to
write the right symbols in the exercise. Then they can ask their classmates those
questions and answer them.

Before doing the exercise with the map, teach your students the meaning of the
prepositions of place by placing different objects in different positions with respect to
each other, e.g. put the book opposite the eraser, or next to the sharpener, etc. After
that help them recognize the places on the map and let them do the exercise.

Answer Key

…………. you like chocolate?

…………. your mother drive a car?
…………. your best friend go to the same class as you?
…………. your parents often watch TV?
…………. you play tennis?
…………. your teacher wear glasses?
…………. you get up early?
…………. your pet eat meat?
…………. eagles fly?
…………. an elephant live in a jungle?

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1. It’s behind the school.

2. It’s in front of the restaurant.
3. It’s next to the post office and opposite the church.
4. It’s next to the church and opposite the post office.
5. It’s between the museum and the station.
6. It’s next to the post office and opposite the market.
7. It’s opposite the butcher’s.
8. It’s behind the butcher’s.
9. It’s in front of the playground.
10. It’s opposite the museum and next to the bank.

C. Reading and Writing

Answer key

1. do
2. does
3. does
4. do
5. do
6. do
7. does
8. does
9. does
10. do
11. does
12. does

E. Speaking

First, the teacher gives instructions to the students, and then students take turns in
giving instructions. The teacher should also join the game.

Each pair of students acts out the scene in the town in which one student asks for
directions and the other answers. Then they swap roles.

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