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Today I worked with a group of adults who were lower intermediate or maybe high beginners. Well, feel free to name them whatever you want. The topic of the class was places in a city, there is/there are and can. The tricky part was that I had 4 hours with them. So, after the usual homework correction, I explored some pictures with them of some common places in a city. After they showed me they had understood all the vocabulary, I asked them to draw their own cities in groups of 4. They had to draw some but not all of the places mentioned in the book. One of the good things was that they asked a lot of questions and came up with a lot of words on their own. When they were done, each group had to present their city to the class using there is, there are and the negatives: there’s no or there aren’t any. Everybody in the group was supposed to say at least 2 sentences about their city, most said more. They also had to make up a name for their town.
After their presentation, I gave them another big sheet to write sentences saying what could be done in each place. They had to write sentences like: I can ride a bike or I can buy food, but they couldn’t say the name of the place, just the sentence stating what they could do there. After each group had written as many sentences they could think of in around 5 minutes, we taped the sheets up around the room. Everybody had to stand up, walk around the room, read the sentences and write the name of the place where you could do that action next to the sentence. We checked the answers together as a group.
Besides some short activites in the book, the last thing they did was to ask another class questions like: What can you do in a (place in a city)?
The hours went by pretty fast and all the cities looked amazing.







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