Strange Cities Around the World

This is an intermediate worksheet which will get students speaking about cities and towns around the world. This worksheet contains speaking, writing, reading, and listening elements.

Students will warm up by asking and answering some conversational questions and matching some pictures to vocabulary of common places in cities. After this students will match some adjectives to synonyms (e.g. beautiful, gorgeous, picturesque etc.). Students will then use these synonyms to complete a statement talking about 3 different neighbourhoods in Berlin. Students will discuss which of the 3 neighbourhoods they would prefer to live in, and then write a text describing 3 neighbourhoods in their own city (trying to use some of the vocabulary they have learned so far).

After this the class will move on to discussing unusual cities and towns. In pairs, students will read about two unusual cities each and then try to describe what they have read to their partner in their own words. Then the students will discuss with their partner which of the four cities they would prefer to live in.

Finally, the students will learn some vocabulary to understand the video section. They will watch a video about Gurgaon, a city in India that is completely run and organised by corporations, and answer some questions about the video.

There is also an optional homework exercise in which students must choose one of five unusual cities, watch a video about it, and then present what they have learned in the next lesson to their class.

This worksheet will work well with any higher level B1 or B2 class, and will be a great way to increase their vocabulary with some useful synonyms.

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