This document provides instructions for a project on writing about a city. Students are asked to choose a city they find interesting and write a report on it consisting of 4-5 paragraphs describing the city's location, positive and negative features, transportation options, popular places to visit, and information about the people and language. The document provides vocabulary words to use in the report and exercises to practice describing cities using this vocabulary. Students are then instructed to write a first draft of their report and check it against the criteria before creating a PowerPoint presentation to share their city with the class.

1. Generalitat de Catalunya
Departament d’Ensenyament
Secció d’Institut de Gurb
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English 1st ESO A city I like project
L’objectiu d’aquesta activitat és escriure un text sobre una ciutat que trobis
interessant i preparar una presentació power point o similarl per fer-la davant la
classe.
Step 1
Let’s practice:
• Connect to : http://oolz.oupe.es/eso/
• Introduce the username: oxfordeso
• Introduce the password: oxfordeso
• Login
• Choose 1ESO option (on the top of the page)
• Click on the Culture Quest section
• Watch a video about New York and do the activities
Step 2
Pre-writing:
• What city would you like to describe to your classmates? Write its name _________
• Do the following activity:
What’s a city like? Pair the adjectives and write them in the right place.
Positive Negative
expensive cheap
big small
dangerous safe
clean dirty
ugly beautiful
boring interesting
quiet noisy
busy lively
Old new
modern outdated
horrible peaceful
Pollued traditional
crowded calm
What’s your city like? Mexico city is very big and beatiful.

2. ______________________________________________________________________ .
Translate the names
Important places and places of interest to visit
Streets –carrers
Avenues-avingudes
Factories –fàbriques
University –universitat
Parks –parcs
Gardens –jardins
Squares –places
Buildings –pissos
Skyscrapers –gratacels
Suburbs –afores
Churches – esglèsies
Historic buildings –edificis histórics
Architecture –arquitectura
Theatres –teatres
Cold / hot weather –temps càlid
In Mexico City there an airport.
________________________________________________________________________ .
In Mexico city people can visit the musuem “Casa Estudio Diego Rivera y Frida Kahlo” .
Step 3
Practice:
Exercise 1:
Answer the following questions about your city:
1. Where is the city?The city is in Mexico
2. How big is it? Mexico city is 1485km²2
3. What’s its population? Mexico city have8851080hab.
4. When is the best time to visit?The best time to visit it's in spring.
5. What places of the city do you like best?The
6. Is there an airport or a train station?Yes.
Use your answers to step 2 questions to write complete sentences about you city. Use
vocabulary from step 2 activities.
1. ____________________________________________________________________
2. ____________________________________________________________________
3. ____________________________________________________________________
4. ____________________________________________________________________

3. Generalitat de Catalunya
Departament d’Ensenyament
Secció d’Institut de Gurb
Exercise 2: There is / there are / has
1 . In _____________________ there (is / are a / an / some / a lot of / loads of)
_________________________________________________________________________
2. __________________ (has / is ) ___________________________________________
3. People in Mexico city are a little brown.
4. There are no farms.
5. There are one or two cathedrals
6. There aren’t any beach.
Exercise 3: Complete the sentences
1. The thing I like most about the city is Palacio Nacional
2. I think that the city is very beautiful .
Step 4
Writing a first draft
Arrange your information and write about your city.
Use:
• positive and negative adjectives
• there is, there are, there isn’t, there aren’t
• have, has, is, are
• some, any, a lot of, one or two, loads of, no
Write four or more paragraphs
• paragraph 1: location
• paragraph 2: good and bad things
• paragraph 3: transport
• paragraph 4: places to visit
• paragraph 5: people and language
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Check:

4. Vocabulary for cities and towns 
There is, there are, there isn’t, there aren’t 
Have, has, is, are 
Some, any, a lot of, one or two, loads of, no 
Words and sentences in a good order 
Spelling (use a dictionary) 
Capitalization and punctuation 
Paragraphs organization 
Make corrections and write out the sentences again neatly.
Now, you are ready to create your power point presentation