Unit 6: Neighborhoods

Teacher: Mrs. Eva Mendoza

THERE IS / THERE ARE
 There is and There are / Quantifiers
• Singular: (There is = There’s) • Adjectives before nouns.
There’s a park in my neighborhood. • There’s a small park.
There’s an outdoor café. • There’s a beautiful pool.
There’s no mall. • There’s a new restaurant.
• There are some expensive stores.
• Plural:
There are a lot of restaurants.
There are some outdoor cafés.
There are a couple of movie theaters.
There are no clubs.
 DESCRIBING A PLACE
Adjectives Opposites Places: Other words Other words
(antonyms) (uncountable) (countable):
:
- modern-new old shopping mall – restaurant – bank crime, robbery,
- huge (enormous) tiny – public / private school – church danger, politicians,
- beautiful-elegant ugly – hospital – English school – pollution, people,
- tall - big short/ small bakery – bookshop – building – traffic, cars,
- quiet noisy park – bank – house – square – trains,
- fancy-rich plain/poor (simple) swimming club – salon – helicopters
- dangerous safe drugstore / chemist’s – hotel –
- fantastic-excellent-great- terrible/horrible/awful traffic light – playground – flower
nice-good shop – supermarket / grocery
store – cinema / movie theater –
etc
Write about your neighborhood. Use the ADJECTIVES and WORDS below:
Example:
IN my neighborhood…
There is a lot of traffic.
There are many good hair salons, but there aren’t any beautiful parks.
There is some danger, because there are many robberies in shops and houses.
There is an excellent hospital and there are some shopping malls: (tell the names)
 It’s one
TELLING THE TIME It’s one oh five
_____ fifty five ______ oh five It’s one ten
What time is it? It’s one
______ fifty fifteen
_____ ten
It’s one twenty

It’s one twenty five

______ forty five _____ fifteen
It’s one thirty

It’s one thirty five

______ forty ______ twenty
It’s one forty

It’s one forty five

______ twenty five
It’s one fifty

It’s one fifty five

______ thirty five
______ thirty
 Questions with What time
• What time is it? It’s 9:20.
• What time does the concert start? It starts at nine o’clock.
• What time do supermarkets close? It closes at about 10:00 p.m.
• What time do you go out at night? I usually go out around 8:00 or 8:30 p.m.
Complete the questions using What time and do or does.

1. A: Hey. There’s a jazz concert on Saturday. 3. A: Let’s go to the pool tomorrow.

B: Really? __________________ it start? B: Great! _______________ it open?
A: It starts at 8:00 p.m. A: I think it opens early, like around 7:00 a.m.

2. A: Let’s have dinner after the concert. 4. A: Let’s meet for breakfast on Saturday.
B: OK. But ______________ restaurants close around here? B: OK. ________________ you get up on
A: Oh, around midnight. Weekends.
A: Oh, I usually get up at about 8:00.