City and transport

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Last updated: March 13, 2026

LESSON SET OVERVIEW

With this lesson set, your students will:

  • learn and practise vocabulary related to cities and transport,
  • practise the use of quantifiers with countable and uncountable nouns,
  • watch a video about the initiative called a “bike bus”,
  • talk about places in town, modes of transportation and problems cities face,
  • work on pronunciation of some vowels.

In the first lesson, students learn names of places in cities. In the second lesson, they talk about cities and learn quantifiers. In the third lesson, they discuss transport in cities using quantifiers.

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Lesson 1 Introduce vocabulary for places in town
vocabulary for places in town
Vocabulary Lab 45 min / 60 min Premium Plan

All around town

General

Students learn names of places (e.g. police station, vet clinic, pharmacy) and practise pronounciation of three vowels. They also play a guessing game and work with a map.

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Lesson 2 Teach students quantifiers
quantifiers with countable and uncountable nouns
Standard Lesson 60 min Premium Plan

What is your city like? (too much, too many, enough/not enough)

Global Issues Grammar Lifestyle

Students learn quantifiers (too much, too many, (not) enough), practise city-related vocabulary (e.g. noise, pollution, traffic) while talking about their cities, as well as big cities around the world. Encourage students to use some vocabulary from lesson 1 when talking about their city in ex. 9 (slide 19) .

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Lesson 3 Help students practise quantifiers while talking about transportation
transport vocabulary
Standard Lesson 60 min Free

Bike, bus or “bike bus”?

General Lifestyle

Students practise transport vocabulary (e.g. get on a bus, go by train, carpool, move around), discuss advantages and disadvantages of some means of transport and watch a video. Encourage students to use the quantifiers in ex. 2 and ex. 9 (slides 8 and 27).

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