Where do you live?

What's in the lesson

1. 1Warm-up
2. 2In this lesson
3. 3Guess the wordsVocabulary exercise
4. 4Check the wordsVocabulary
5. 5True or false?Reading comprehension
6. 6Read and thinkReading comprehension
7. 7Listen: Marcus's new addressListening comprehension
8. 8Use the new wordsVocabulary exercise
9. 9What does it mean?Grammar exercise
10. 10Find in and onGrammar exercise
11. 11In, on and atGrammar rule
12. 12In, on or at?Grammar exercise
13. 13Say it rightSpeaking practice
14. 14What's your address?Speaking practice
15. 15Let's talkDiscussion
16. 16Wrap-up

Homework

1. 1Homework: which word?Vocabulary exercise
2. 2Homework: your sentencesVocabulary exercise
3. 3Homework: Hector's homeGrammar exercise
4. 4Homework: where I liveDiscussion

Words

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  address/ˈædres/

  the number, street and city of a home or a building

• street/striːt/

  a road in a city or town, with houses or buildings on it

• 
  neighborhood/ˈneɪbərhʊd/

  a part of a city or town where people live

• 
  downtown/ˌdaʊnˈtaʊn/

  in or to the center of a city, where there are offices and stores

• town/taʊn/

  a place with houses and stores, smaller than a city

• 
  building/ˈbɪldɪŋ/

  a house, a school, an office… a thing with walls and a roof

• floor/flɔːr/

  all the rooms on one level of a building

• zip code/ˈzɪp ˌkoʊd/

  the five numbers at the end of an address in the US

• near/nɪr/

  a short way from; not far

• 
  noisy/ˈnɔɪzi/

  with a lot of loud sound; the opposite of quiet

Two slides from the lesson

Warm-up

Let's talk about where you live.

1. Is your home in a big city or a small town?
2. What do you see from your window at home?
3. What is your favorite place in your city or town?

Grammar rule

In, on and at

Where do you live?

	for…	Examples
in	a country, a state, a city, a town, a neighborhood, a house, an apartment	I live in Atlanta. She lives in a small town.
on	a street, a floor	I live on Maple Street. He lives on the eighth floor.
at	an address: a number and a street	I live at 245 Pine Street.

With downtown, we don't use in: I live downtown. I work downtown.

An address in the US

• 245 Pine Street, Apt. 3B: the number and the street, then the apartment (Apt.)
• Portland, OR 97212: the city, the state (OR = Oregon) and the zip code

Questions

Where do you live? · What's your address? · Is that a house or an apartment? · What floor do you live on? · How do you spell that?