🏙️ What's It Like? — Describing Cities With Adjectives
Today you will learn adjectives, the word "really", the rule for "a" and "an", opposites, how to ask for someone's opinion about a city, and city vocabulary.
Nora Comes Back From A Trip
Read the little scene below.
🤔 What's your city like? Can you think of an adjective already?
🎨 Adjectives, "Really", And "A" Or "An"
An adjective is a word that describes a noun. Use adjectives after the verb "to be" or before a noun.
Adjective + Noun / After "To Be"
- "Paris is beautiful."
- "London is expensive."
Make It Stronger With "Really"
- "Brazil is really big."
- "Salvador is really exciting."
Use "a" or "an" before an adjective (or noun) that comes before a singular noun. Use "an" before words that start with a vowel sound (a, e, i, o, u) — otherwise use "a": "Paris is a beautiful city." / "Salvador is an exciting city."
🔤 "A" Or "An"?
Click a word to see (and hear) whether it needs "a" or "an"!
💬 Asking For An Opinion
Use "What's...like?" or "How's...?" to ask what someone thinks about a city or country.
"What's...like?"
- "What's Britain like?" — "It's great."
- "What's it like?" — "It's crowded."
"How's...?" / "How is it?"
- "How's London?" — "It's exciting."
- "How is it?" — "It's boring."
↔️ Opposites
Click an adjective to reveal (and hear) its opposite!
🏙️ Describing Your City — Places & Buildings
Here is some vocabulary for places you can find around town.
Museum
Restaurant
Shop
Park
Bridge
Downtown
Building
Skyscraper
Street
Use "there is" with "a" or "an" to say a place exists: "There is a big park in New York." / "There is an office downtown."
Listen And Repeat!
Click 🔊 Listen to hear the phrase, 🐢 Slowly to hear it slower, then 🎙️ My turn and say it out loud into your microphone!
✍️ Practice Time!
Exercise 1 — True Or False?
Exercise 2 — Complete The Dialogue
Fill in the missing word in each line of the conversation.
🎭 Create & Record Your Own Dialogue
Imagine a friend is asking you about your city! Write a short dialogue using "What's it like?" or "How's...?", an adjective, and "a"/"an".
🎙️ Now, Record It!
Act out your dialogue out loud (alone with both voices, or with a friend) and record yourselves. Then listen back!
🎯 Final Quiz — What's It Like? — Describing Cities With Adjectives
Answer 7 questions to test everything you learned in this lesson!