🏘️ There's A Good Pizza Place! — My Neighborhood
Welcome to the neighborhood! Today you will learn the names of neighborhood places (bakery, post office, playground…), say exactly where a place is (between, behind, in front of, on the corner of, across the street from) and give a recommendation: "Do you know a good place for pizza?" — "There's a good pizza place on the corner!"
A New Neighbor
Rayan and his family are new in Nora's neighborhood. Read the little scene below.
🤔 What's your favorite place in your neighborhood?
🏪 Neighborhood Places
Click a card to hear it. Which places are in your neighborhood?
American English: a movie theater (UK: cinema), a parking lot (UK: car park). And a pizza place is simply a small pizza restaurant.
📍 Locations In A City
You know on, near, next to and across from (Lesson 39). Here are more words to say exactly where a place is.
🗺️ The Neighborhood Explorer
Look at Nora's neighborhood and complete each sentence. The map shows you the answer! 8 sentences.
⭐ Asking For And Making Recommendations
New in town? Ask for a recommendation. Know a great place? Recommend it!
❓ Asking
- Do you know a good place for pizza?
- Do you know a nice park near here?
- (more than one?) Which restaurant do you like? · Which one do you like?
⭐ Recommending
- There's a good bakery on the corner.
- There's a nice park on Pine Street, next to the library.
- There are two fish restaurants near here.
- They're both very good, but the one across the street is expensive.
one replaces the name of a place: "Which one do you like?" = Which restaurant do you like? · "the one across the street" = the restaurant across the street.
💬 The Recommendation Chat
Rayan asks for a recommendation. Choose what he is looking for, then listen to Nora's advice!
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: My Neighborhood
Describe your neighborhood for a new neighbor. Name 5 places, say where they are (between, behind, next to, on the corner of…) and recommend your favorite place.
🎙️ Now, Record It!
Read your description out loud like a little tour guide. Then listen back!
🎯 Final Quiz — My Neighborhood
Answer 7 questions to test everything you learned in this lesson!