Related pages :

House and Garden - Dwelling types - The town - Shops - Restaurant - Hotel - Prepositions -

Countries and Nationalities -

Constructions (:
Bridges, Domes, Skyscrapers, Dams, and Tunnels - Walls -
Great Buildings - Monuments - Wonders

Architecture

Idioms and Sayings :

• Buildings : Idioms and Sayings (learnenglish.de)

• Numb As A Statue by Warren Zevon :
  "I'm numb as a statue..."
  

INTERACTIVE activities :

• Buildings - Drag-and-Drop - interactive (visualesl.com)

• Buildings - quiz with images (iteslj.org)

• Buildings - no pictures - (a4esl.org)
  - ex : The Empire State Building is so tall that it's called a ___

• Self-Study Grammar Quizzes about Places (a4esl.org)
  "Learn about Places While Answering Grammar Questions"

• Place Names with or without 'the:' (collegeem.qc.ca)

• People and places + where? - with interactive exercises (learn-english-online.org)

  

• Have fun! Enjoy the games and learn English : Towns and Places (Renée Maufroid)
  
  
  
• Places in the Community-1 - Click on the correct answer (with pictures)
  (esl.vcc.ca)

• Places in the Community-1 - Phrases à compléter à l'aide d'images -
  ex : "My father goes to the _____________ to withdraw some money."
  (esl.vcc.ca)

• Places in the Community - Click on the correct answer - with pictures
  ex : "I need some vitamins. I am going to the ______________.
  appliance store / drugstore / pharmacy"
  (esl.vcc.ca)

• Questions Used at a Gasoline Station - Scrambled Sentences
  (manythings.org)

• Places - True/False exercise - ex : "You go to a hairdresser's to have a bath". (a.w-z.webpark.pl)

• Housing (intermediate level) - TRUE OR FALSE? (english.specialist.hu)

• Name That Place (travel.discovery)
  "Take our photo quizzes and see if you can identify these famous wonders from around the world."

• Building (Isabel Perez)
  "Drag the words over the item in the image. It will turn green when you are right"
  
  

• British habitat - "Match the PHOTOS with the words or expressions." (Michel Barbot)
  
  

• Places - Matching exercise (with pictures) + 5 pages (madridteacher.com)
  
  

• Places - Buildings - exercice de vocabulaire (avec images)
  (users.skynet.be)

• Buildings (learnenglish.de)
  "Click on the drop down boxes and find the word that matches the picture on the left."

• Houses and Homes - "Match the sentences on the left with the houses on the right" (no pictures)
  (Isabel Perez)

• Rooms - Where To Look For People (about.com)
  "Match the person to the rooms you would most likely find them in."

• Buildings People Live In - "Match the person to the buildings they live in." (about.com)

• At the Tourist Information - Welcome to Cheltenham Spa - Gap-Fill Exercise:
  "complete the text with the words given in the box."
  (kaleidovox.hu)

• Famous American Bridges - interactive (no pictures)
  (manythings.org)

• Places That Never Were - "Imaginary places that never existed. Do you know them?" (funtrivia.com)

• Holy Places - (British Council)
  "At the top you will find information about 5 holy places.
  There are the names of the religions, names of the holy places, their locations, and the name of a monument, etc. which can be found there.
  Below is a table for this information. In the table it explains why each holy place is sacred.
  Can you put the rest of the information into the correct boxes?"
  
  

Activities TO PRINT :

• Places in Town (longman.com)
  - "a vocabulary exercise about buildings in a town. Unjumble the letters to find the words."

• Which building is which? (with a picture)
  (mrc.ltd.free.fr)
  
  

• Places ( nouns ) - ex : "A narrow passage between buildings = ..." (englishdaily626.com)

• Conversation Creation Cards (englishraven.com)
  "On the front of each card is an "everyday destination" (ex : a fast food restaurant), where a variety of activities typically take place and various nouns can be found.
  On the back is a grid with tips on grammar and sentence building, a list of suggested verbs to use and some images of a variety of nouns."
  
  

Lesson plans :

• World’s tallest building opens in Dubai - a lesson plan
  "The height of the 828-metre Burj Khalifa was kept a secret until the opening ceremony. It is twice the height of New York’s Empire State Building."
  WARM-UPS :
  TALL BUILDINGS / MOST / BEST / BIG IS BEAUTIFUL / PLACES TO STAY / BUILDING
  (breakingnewsenglish.com)

  

• Dubai tower tallest building in the world - a lesson plan
  (Breaking News English)
  
  See Great Buildings

• Buildings (esl-lab)
  A lesson proposed by Randall S. Davis with :
  - a list of commonly-used vocabulary with a recording of the words in RealMedia format.
  - a short quiz to test students' comprehension of some of the words,
  - a Follow-Up exercise for expanding students' use of the vocabulary in a conversation with a partner or group.

INTERACTIVE games :

• Inside and out game.
  "Answer the questions correctly to take a look inside the buildings to find out all about them."
  (BBC)
  
  

• Buildings - word search (learnenglish.de)

• Places - Where can you go? Crossword (madridteacher.com)

Songs :

• "Excuse me, where's the ....?"
  "Listen to the song ..., click the answers and see what score you got!"
  (genkienglish.net)

  

• Songs about Countries, Continents, Provinces and Regions (mapville.com)

• Songs about U.S. States or Regions (mapville.com)

• Songs about Cities and Places (mapville.com)

• Songs about buildings - list (rateyourmusic.com)

• Blue Hotel by Chris Isaak
  "Blue hotel on a lonely highway..."

• Everyone's Gone to the Moon by Jonathan King

• Hotel California by The Eagles

• No Milk Today by Herman's Hermits (lyricsdepot.com)

• One night in Bangkok by Murray Head
  
  
  

Videos :

• Strange Architecture (YouTube)

• Free Running Video - Permet un travail sur les lieux (YouTube)

• Neuro - a FLASH animation by Bozzetto (pagesperso-orange.fr/prof.danglais)
  - avec des exercices à imprimer (M. Henry)
  
  

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