This document provides information about a neighborhood in Paraiso Down Town, Costa Rica. It includes a list of common facilities in the neighborhood such as grocery stores, banks, drugstores, supermarkets, hotels, restaurants, and educational centers. Examples are given of specific hotels. The characteristics of the neighborhood are described as crowded with traffic and noise but also having quiet places and friendly people. Finally, vocabulary and examples are provided for giving directions within the neighborhood.

1. My Neighbordhood
Elaborado por:
Carolina Díaz.
María Sanabria.
Jorge Cervantes.

2. Planning for an English
Class
General Objective

3. To identify the vocabulary
about my neighborhood
To use there is and there
are in short sentences.
To give directions for each
place.
Specific Objectives

5. In Paraíso Down Town there are
a lot of Facitilities

6. Grocery
store
Green
grocery
Bank and
ATM
Drugstore Supermarket Bus station
Taxi station Cementery City hall
My Neigbordhood
Facilities

7. Hotels Restaurants Swimming pool
Natural places Church Soccer field
Educational
centers

8. Several Examples

9. Hotels
Orosi Tapanti Media Logde
Hotel
Rio Perlas Hotel Spa &
Resort

10. Hotels Facilities
Restaurant
service
Social activities
Lodgement
Vacation
possibilities
Exotic places
A lot of
attractions

11. Bank
Facilities
• Credit and debit card
• ATM: To get cash
• You can pay taxes and
do others dealings

12. Drugstore
Facilities
• All kind of
medicaments
• Personal care
products
• Groceries products

13. Supermarket
In this place you can buy:
Also, you can pay public services
Working tools
Housewares
Clothes and shoes
Personal care products
Groceries products for animals and people.

14. Grocery store
In this place you can buy:
Housewares
Personal care products
Groceries products for animals and
people.

15. Green grocery
Facilities: You can
buy:
Vegetables Fruits

16. Educational institutes
Facilities
Diferents careers
Diferents schedules
Excellent professors
A lot of classrooms
Computer laboratories
Library
Cafeteria
Copy center
Green areas
University of Costa Rica Paraiso
Branch

17. My Neighbordhood Characteristics
Crowded
Smog (cars
and
factories)
Noise Economic
development
Friendlier
people
Traffic
Several
places are
quiet
Facilities

19. Directions vocabulary
On …(name
of street)
Near Nearby
Next to Next door to In front of
At the corner
of
Across
from/across
the street from

20. Directions vocabulary
Two/three blocks
from
In the middle of the
block
The
second/third/fourth
building from the
corner
Next to Next door to In fron of
At the corner of
Across from/across
the street from

21. Directions
Asking for Directions
Could you tell me
where the bank is?
Where is the bank?
Do you Know how to
get to…?
How do I get to…?
I am trying to find…
Giving Directions
Go straight
Go straight for two blocks on
Street/Road
Go past (the market)
Go north/south/east/west
Turn left/right
Make a left/right
Cross the street
You will see it on your
left/right

22. Could you tell me where the National
Bank is?
The National Bank is across from the
Park.
Example

23. Gracias