Where would you rather live?

Ewa | Feb 05, 2025Jan 31, 2025

LESSON OVERVIEW

The main objectives of this ESL lesson are to:

• engage in talking about places to live and visit;
• watch a video about living in San Diego;
• practise the structure ‘would rather’ to talk about preferences.

With this lesson, students share their preferences and opinions on places to live and visit. They compare cities and towns, watch a video about San Diego and explore the structure ‘would rather’. Students work in pairs talking about places to live, stay or walk away from. They can also do an optional vocabulary activity where they review adjectives to discuss places.

WARM-UP AND VOCABULARY

This lesson starts with a warm-up. Students think about where they live and recommend some places for some categories (e.g. best food, most beautiful place, best place to relax, etc.). At this point, students can do an optional vocabulary activity to help them participate in talking about places to live. They match halves to create sentences about city life, and the environment people live in. Then, students find two opposite adjectives in each sentence (e.g. pretty–ugly, fun–boring, noisy–quiet, etc.). Afterwards, they discuss questions about preferences and opinions on cities or towns. 

VIDEO AND DISCUSSION

In this part of the lesson, students engage in talking about places to live. They look at photos of places worldwide, compare them to where they live and share opinions. Following that, students watch a video about San Diego and say if they’d like to visit. After that, they compare San Diego to their home using adjectives (e.g. boring, friendly, pretty, etc.). Students use the video information and their ideas. They then look at pairs of options (e.g. live in a city OR live in the country), choose one of them and explain their choice. Afterwards, students explain why others might choose differently. They use the ‘would rather’ structure in their answers. Finally, students look at sets of places (e.g. boat in the Caribbean, farm in Australia, flat in London) and decide which place they would like to live in, stay or walk away from. Their partner listens to their answers and asks them questions. Then, they swap roles.

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