Describing places vocabulary and speaking
New Cutting Edge Intermediate Module 3
First with no help, write as much suitable vocabulary below as you can.
| Adjectives to describe cities |
| Adjectives to describe villages and the countryside |
| Features of cities |
| Features of villages and the countryside |
Put any of the words below that you haven’t already got into the boxes above. A few could go in more than one box.
Amusement arcade Amusement park
Blocks of flats Botanical gardens
Busy Castle
Cathedral Cemetery/ Graveyard
Ceremonial gate Cliff
Commuters Cosmopolitan
Cottage Crops
Crowded Department store
Dirty Downtown
Embassy Ferris wheel/ Big wheel
Field Financial district (e.g. Wall Street)
Forest/ Wood Fountain
High-rise building Hiking trail
Housing estates Lake
Landmark Litter
Market Meadow
Monument Mosque
Mountain range Narrow lane
Nature Office building
Palace Parish church
Parliament/ Senate Path
Pavement (= Sidewalk) Peaceful
Peak Pedestrianised shopping street
Polluted Pond
Quiet/ Peaceful Rolling hills
Romantic Rural
Rush hour Scenery
Shopping mall Skyscrapers
Slow paced Square
Stately home/ Mansion/ Manor house Stream
Suburbs Supermarket
Temple Town hall/ City hall
Traditional fair Traffic jam/ Congestion
Tram Urban
Waterfall Wildlife
Describe a country or city in the list below to your partner until they guess which one you are talking about, then take turns doing the same.
France Italy Belgium Austria
Australia Brazil Russia Netherlands
Turkey Indonesia Norway Switzerland
Greece Denmark Argentina Ireland
Iceland Thailand Portugal Czech Republic
Philippines Egypt Vietnam Croatia
Cuba Burma Malta Wales
The UK Georgia Germany Northern Ireland
Cologne Munich Bruges Brussels
Florence Geneva Venice Rome
Paris Athens Naples Turin
Milan Moscow Beijing The Hague
Prague Seville Kiev Warsaw
Belgrade
| Useful language for describing places I picture it as… I’d imagine it’s… As far as I remember… I think I once heard that… Someone told me… I saw this place on telly and… If it’s anything like… it must be… |
When your teacher stops you, ask about any places above you aren’t sure about, working together to pronounce and describe them each time.
Discussion questions
Which of the places above would you like to visit and why?
Are there any places above that you have never heard of or know nothing about? Why do you know more about other places, do you think?
How well do schools in your country teach you about other countries, for example in geography classes?
How good is your geographical knowledge, do you think?
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