🎁 Gratuit · English From Zero · Level A2 · Lesson 39

🗺️ Excuse Me, Where's The Museum?

A new unit: getting around town! Today you will learn the names of transportation (bus, subway, train, taxi…), ask politely where a place is ("Excuse me, do you know where the museum is?"), answer with on, near, next to, across from, and give steps in the right order: First… Next… Then…

🎬 Let's Imagine...

A Visitor In The Town

Read the little scene below.

A touristExcuse me, do you know where the museum is?

NoraYes! It's on Jasmine Street, across from the park. First, walk to the end of this street. Then you can see it!

The touristThank you very much! You're a great guide!

🧑‍🏫 Teacher SamiNora is a great guide! Excuse me, do you know where the museum is? · It's on Jasmine Street · across from the park · First… Then… Let's learn to find our way in town!

🤔 Can you explain the way to your school?

🎨Illustration à venir : dans une rue d'une ville tunisienne, une touriste avec un sac à dos et une carte demande son chemin ; Nora lui montre la direction du musée de la main.

Step 1

🚌 Transportation

Click a card to hear the word. How do you go to school?

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In American English, the train under the city is the subway. In Tunis, we say the metro (the light rail), and the train to La Marsa is the TGM. And when you don't take any transportation, you walk!

Step 2

📍 Asking For And Giving A Location

Ask someone where a place is. Add Excuse me or Pardon me to be more polite.

❓ Asking

Where is the museum?
Do you know where the museum is?
Excuse me, where is the library?
Pardon me, do you know where the train station is?

📍 Answering

It's on Jasmine Street. (on + street name)
It's near the park. (not far)
It's next to the bank. (right beside it)
It's across from the school. (on the other side of the street)

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Watch the word order! "Where is the museum?" ✅ — but "Do you know where the museum is?" ✅. With Do you know, the verb is goes at the end. Never say "Do you know where is the museum?" ❌

🗺️ The Town Map

You are a visitor. Click a place on the map: ask where it is, and listen to the answer!

🔀 The Word Order Fixer

Only one question has the right word order. Find it! 8 questions.

Step 3

1️⃣ Adverbs Of Sequence

Adverbs of sequence put actions in the correct order. They are very useful to give directions or instructions.

🔢 Number words

First, take the bus to the metro station. Second, take the metro to the park. Third, walk to the museum.

These words are followed by a comma (,).

➡️ First, next, then

First, take the bus. Next, take the metro. Then walk.

Next and then mean the same here. Then usually has no comma.

🌸 Example: First, Leo buys flowers at the market. Then he gives them to his mom. 💐

🧩 Step By Step

Click the steps in the right order. Then listen to the instructions with First, Next, Then! 5 missions.

🎨Illustration à venir : une petite ville tunisienne vue d'en haut, façon plan illustré — un bus, le métro léger, un taxi jaune, des vélos, la gare, un parc et la mer avec un ferry.

🎧 Sound Lab

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!

Step 4

✍️ Practice Time!

Exercise 1 — True Or False?

Exercise 2 — Complete The Dialogue

Fill in the missing word in each line of the conversation.

Step 5 · Final Task!

🎭 Create & Record: Be A Town Guide

A visitor asks you where a place in your town is. Write the dialogue: the visitor asks politely, you say where it is (on, near, next to, across from) and you give the way with First, Next, Then.

Excuse me,Do you know where … is? It's on … Street.next to across fromFirst, Next,Then

🎙️ Now, Record It!

Read your dialogue out loud like a real town guide. Then listen back!

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🎯 Final Quiz — Places, Locations & Sequence

Answer 7 questions to test everything you learned in this lesson!