A selection of English ESL local places printables

Here are 4 activities on the topic "Shops and Local Places". Students work with vocabulary related to this topic, as well as with some common jobs and everyday objects. Enjoy them!

Shops, local places, jobs and common everyday objects

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

A complete project that should take about 3 hours to do. First, there is a mix and match exercises. This is followed by bingo (which is placed at the back) then a small cloze exercise. After that there is a story with gaps. Once that has been done there is a debate related to the story. I usually tell students that they have to try and use the phrasal verbs while debating. Answers are included. If you live in the kind of place where drugs and sex workers cannot be discussed in a sensible manner with young adults, then this may not be appropriate. I would set the age-limit at 14, if I were in the UK. You'll have to make that call according to the local culture.

Phrasal Verbs with Look

this is an activity to Mexican teachers for the places I use. other country teachers could change the places for a local one.

introducing oneself

Simple worksheet with an interview activity for the topic, 'Have you ever been to...?', using the present perfect question. 

First, students select one of the places on the worksheet that they have been to and check the circle on the picture (This worksheet was designed for students living in the vicinity of Yokohama in Japan, so please feel free to change the places on the worksheet to places in your students local area).

Second, the students write their answer to the questions in the two boxes to the right hand side of the worksheet, 'When did you go?' and, 'What did you do?'

Finally, the students should 'interview' their friends. They ask their friend, 'Have you ever been to...?' and their friend replies with either, 'Yes, I have', or, 'No, I haven't'. If the answer was yes, then they should also ask them one of the other two questions, 'When did you go?' or, 'What did you do?' When their friend replies yes they should sign the corresponding box at the bottom of the worksheet. When the student has all five boxes signed they should present their worksheet to the teacher.



Have you ever...?

This is worksheet for students to practice calling for a place to live, using classified ads from a local newspaper.

Calling for an apartment exercise

a nice song to work with adjectives and nouns awareness and simple present. 

The worksheet also contains some exercises to work with the importance of diversity, places in the local area and some emotions. 

Express yourself 

A questionnaire for students to complete about their local museum and/ or art gallery. Change the name to city and place you live and adapt it to your students' needs. It is useful to use on a visit to these places and would be good to use when feeding back on the trip afterwards. 

Local Museum and Art Gallery worksheet.

Prepositions with a Christmas picture. Worksheet for young learners. The students have to complete the sentences with the correct local preposition. They look at the picture that gives the answeer.

Prepositions of place

Irish culture Quiz- Names, places, Sports. I used this with learners where they had to go and ask Irish people if they knew the answer. May work well with a trip to the local park (if the weather allows!) 

Irish Culture quiz

This worksheet is for young learners or students wit learning difficulties. There are 2 exercices  to practice local prepositions. In the first, the students read the sentences and number the persons. In the second, they have to complete the sentences with the correct  preposition.

Prepositions - Hyde and seek

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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18 Local places English ESL worksheets pdf & doc