A selection of English ESL city planning printables

This simple lesson plan is for elementary and pre-intermediate learners but is also a useful tool for review with intermediate and even upper-intermediate learners. The focus is on locations around town. Students practice asking where places are and explaining locations using prepositions of place, street names and shop names. The town map on page two can be used to adapt the lesson to practice giving directions, too. 

Locations Around Town

This is the 1st out of 4 ESL worksheets about BE GOING TO. In this 1st printable students learn the use of this future form for plans and intentions. There is an activity with 2 possible uses to practise this form. Students also learn/review names of shops and the most common buildings in town. Hope you find it useful!

Places In Town # 1 - Plans For the Weekend - BE GOING TO + Instructions

This is the 2nd out of 4 EFL printables about BE GOING TO. In this 2nd worksheet students practise the use of this future form (introduced in the 1st doc: "Going to...places in town!(1/4)" for plans and intentions. There are 2 activities and the explanation about how to use them. Students also learn/review names of shops and the names of some items they can buy there.

Places In Town # 2 - Plans For the Weekend BE GOING TO - 4 Pages

This is a worksheet where you cut up and laminate all the countries and cities and the students have to match them along with the flags. Use the countries and cities to your own teaching plan.

Match Country, City and Flag or Nationality 

2 pages lesson plan on topic of "Cities". Includes: reading, vocabulary, discussion questions, grammar and phrasal verbs.

Cities

Students (in pairs) have $500 to spend on a weekend in a city.  They must plan their weekend together which includes their activities, meals and accommodation.  Afterwards they must tell other students  their plan.  Good use of "be going to" "present continuous" for future arrangements.  



You will need to have sets of tourist brochures for a variety of accommodation and sightseeing places.

A Weekend in Your City

A quick questionnaire to discuss the pluses and minuses of both options. Regardless of where your students live, I think they will always have something interesting to say. Statistically, the city-countryside topic can be found in every second coursebook so the odds are in that you might need this one ;) goes without saying that you can swap Warsaw for any other place on the planet :) Enjoy!

The city or the countryside? - survey

Watching a video about Vancouver and its plan to use only renewable energy in the future. Understanding their strategies and plan. Need to have basic knowledge about sustainability and renewable energy.

Vancouver renewable city strategy

A speaking and listening lesson focusing on a fictitious visit Beyonce Knowles (or any famous person), is going to make to your city.  The grammar highlighted is present continuous for future plans

Beyonce Knowles visits your city

This worksheet is designed to prepare students for the Maturita speaking exam on the topic of “Our Planet.” It combines reading, speaking, vocabulary, and critical thinking activities in a structured way. Students begin by working with useful opinion phrases and key vocabulary related to the environment. They then read six different texts, each written as a short speech by a speaker from Canada, the USA, the UK, the Czech Republic, New Zealand, and Australia. Each speaker introduces their hometown and shares their personal opinion on environmental issues such as climate change, nuclear energy, renewable sources, recycling, or the balance between economy and ecology. The readings are 250–300 words each and are followed by comprehension questions for homework, so students can practice scanning for information and summarizing ideas. In class, students also practice picture description with contrasting images of clean and polluted environments, as well as map work where they locate each city mentioned in the texts. The final activity is a ranking discussion in which students decide which environmental actions are most important, using opinion phrases to agree, disagree, and negotiate with their classmates. Czech translations are included for the ranking task to support lower-level learners. The worksheet gives students practice in reading comprehension, speaking fluency, describing visuals, and building topic-specific vocabulary, while also encouraging debate and critical thinking about real-world environmental issues.

Our planet package: Exam prep

Which city was voted best city in America? Listening comprehension exercise. Includes vocabulary preview, multiple choice listening comprehension quiz, and answer key. Online lesson with audio file: https://eslfrog.com/best-city/

Listening: The Best City in America

A1 - A2, aimed at Adult false beginners: ONE OF TEN lessons/chapters- In these worksheets we meet Emma and David as they plan and go on holiday. Students practise basic travel vocabulary and simple grammar, building confidence for everyday holiday conversations like booking, packing, and talking about the trip (includes homework for self study).

reading & Practice: Lesson 6- Exploring the city- adverbs of frequency + Vocab

Culture, intercultural communication, cross-cultural communication

Adjectives to describe feelings, emotions

Adjectives to describe personality and character

Adjectives: Gradable / Non-gradable adjectives

Articles: Definite or indefinite article (a, an or the)

BE + infinitive structures (e.g. he was to become famous)

Clauses of contrast (e.g.  although, while)

Clauses of purpose (e.g. in order to, so that, so as to)

Clauses of reason (e.g. because, because of, due to, as, since)

Cleft sentences (e.g. It's Joey we're looking for)

Comparison: Comparative adjectives and structures

Comparison: Superlative adjectives and structures

Conditional 2 (second conditional) - would

Conditionals: Conditional phrases (e.g. unless, provided that, as long as)

Conjunctions (aka connectives, e.g. and, but, or, so, then)

Contractions (shortened forms, e.g. don't, aren't, etc.)

Determiners (words that can come before nouns)

Formal and informal English (politeness or colloquial language)

Future perfect continuous (progressive) tense

Future perfect simple and continuous (progressive) tense

Future phrases (e.g. be about to, bound to, likely to, due to, set to + INF)

Homonyms (two words with the same pronunciation - homophones and homographs)

It as preparatory subject (e.g. it's raining, it's nice of you to)

Linking verbs (aka copulas, e.g. I am a student)

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Nouns: Collective nouns (team, class, family, committee)

Nouns: Proper nouns (names of people, cities, companies)

Oxymorons (phrases with words of contradictory meaning, e.g. living dead)

Participles: Past participle (e.g. HAVING DONE)

Participles: Present participle (e.g. DOING)

Parts of Speech (aka word classes, e.g. nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs)

Past perfect continuous (progressive) tense

Phonetics (pronunciation, IPA, phonetic symbols)

Plural nouns: regular plurals with S ending

Prefixes (e.g. A, UN, IM, DIS, MIS, EN, etc. )

Prepositions vs adverbs (e.g. before me, saw him before.)

Prepositions: Double prepositions (e.g. out of)

Prepositions: Participle prepositions (e.g. pending, concerning)

Prepositions: Phrase prepositions (e.g. by means of)

Present perfect continuous (progressive) tense

Present perfect simple or present continuous tense

Present simple tense: S for third person singular verbs

Present simple vs continuous (progressive) tense

Pronouns: EACH OTHER, ONE ANOTHER (reciprocal pronouns)

Pronouns: Possessive pronouns (e.g. my, mine)

Pronouns: Reflexive pronouns (e.g. myself, yourself))

Pronouns: SOMEBODY, ANYBODY, EVERYBODY, NO ONE, NOTHING, etc.

Pronouns: THIS, THAT, THESE, THOSE (demonstratives)

Pronouns: YOU and THEY to talk about people in general

Quantifiers (e.g. some, many, much, any, few, little)

Questions: WH questions (open-ended questions)

Reported speech: reported questions (indirect questions)

There is / there are / there was / there were / there will be, etc.

Verbs: Transitive or intransitive verbs (words that can or cannot stand with objects)

Working with Paragraphs: ordering, titling

Role play, miming, drama activity or improv game

Pictionary (picture dictionary) or picture matching

Writing an opinion essay (persuasive essay)

Learners who are Pre-A1 have just begun learning English and will first learn how to:<ul><li>Say the letters in the alphabet and numbers</li><li>Say hello, talk about names and age</li><li>Name the colors and dates, express likes and dislikes</li></ul>

Absolute beginners who have begun to learn the letters and numbers

Learners taking the A1 Elementary exam should be able to:<ul><li>Introduce themselves and ask and answer questions about personal details such as where he/she lives, things he/she has, people he/she knows.</li><li>Communicate using very basic phrases as long as the other person talks slowly and clearly and is prepared to help.</li><li>Main grammar points to know: common adjectives & adverbs of frequency, going to, how much/how many, imperatives, I'd like, 's – possessive, common prepositions of place and time, present simple & continuous, there is/are</li></ul>

A very basic tourist level, which is enough for buying food and a bus ticket

Learners taking the A2 Pre-intermediate exam should be able to:<ul><li>Understand sentences and frequently used expressions (e.g. very basic personal and family information, shopping, local geography, employment).</li><li>Complete tasks that are routine and exchange information about familiar matters.</li><li>Describe matters of immediate need in simple terms.</li><li>Main grammar points to know: countable/uncountable nouns, adverbs of frequency, future will/going to, much/many, present perfect, past simple, past continuous, common phrasal verbs, common modals: can/should</li></ul>

A tourist who can do basic conversations about the past, present and future

Learners taking the B1 Intermediate exam should be able to:<ul><li>Understand points regarding family, work, school or leisure-related topics.</li><li>Deal with most travel situations in areas where the language is spoken.</li><li>Create simple texts on topics of personal interest.</li><li>Describe experiences, events, dreams, and ambitions, as well as opinions or plans in brief.</li><li>Main grammar points to know: question tags, intensifiers: too/enough, future tenses, past tenses, modals, conditionals, wh-questions in the past</li></ul>

Learners who can deal with both familiar and routine situations, in friendly and work contexts

Learners taking the B2 Upper-intermediate exam should be able to:<ul><li>Understand the main ideas of complex text on both concrete and abstract topics, including technical discussions in his/her field of specialization.</li><li>Interact with fluency and spontaneity that makes regular interaction with native speakers quite possible without difficulty for either party.</li><li>Produce clear, detailed text on a wide range of subjects and explain an opinion on a topical issue giving the advantages and disadvantages of various options.</li><li>Main grammar points to know: perfect tenses, mixed conditionals, modals in the present, phrasal verbs, reported speech, wish, relative clauses</li></ul>

The level where you can be a tour guide for your foreign friends and talk about a lot of topics, even abstract ones, with ease and fluency

Learners taking the C1 Advanced exam should be able to: Express ideas fluently and spontaneously without much obvious searching for expressions. Use language flexibly and effectively for social, academic and professional purposes. Understand a wide range of demanding, longer texts. Produce clear, well-structured, detailed text on complex subjects, using linking phrases (=words that connect ideas between sentences). Main grammar points to know: inversion, mixed conditionals, modals in the past, all passive forms, phrasal verbs (all patterns), wish/if only for regrets

Learners who can smoothly communicate in every walk of life, read long texts and write well

Learners taking the C2 Proficient exam should be able to:<ul><li>Understand almost everything read or heard with ease.</li><li>Summarize information from a variety of sources into a coherent presentation.</li><li>Express themselves using precise meaning in complex scenarios.</li><li>Can express him/herself spontaneously, very fluently and precisely, differentiating finer shades of meaning even in the most complex situations</li></ul>

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13 City planning English ESL worksheets pdf & doc