Writing

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Unit :PlacesTopic : Interesting Places in Community Sub-topic : Sites

Matthayomsuksa 2

What does the video concern with?What did you see from the video?

Vocabulary

caf (n.)

a small restaurant where drinks and snacks are soldEx. A lot of people go to restaurants and cafs.

start (v.)

take the first step or steps in carrying out an actionEx. We start lesson at 8 Oclock and we go home at 3 Oclock.

field (n.)

a piece of land cleared of trees and usually enclosedEx. Weve got a football field.

Structure

PrepositionsPrepositions are short words (on, in, at) that usually stand in front of nouns.

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PrepositionUsageExamplein- months / seasons- time of day- year- after a certain period of time (when?)- in August / in winter- in the morning- in 2006- in an houron- days of the week- on Monday at- for night- for weekend- a certain point of time (when?)- at night- at the weekend- at half past nine

Preposition of time

Example :

Preposition of timeWe start lesson at 8 Oclock.- We go home at 3 Oclock.

Preposition of placePrepositionUsageExamplein- room, building, street, town, country- car, taxi- picture, world- in London, in the toilet- in the car, in a taxi- in the picture, in the worldon- for a certain side (left, right)- for a floor in a house- for public transport- on the left- on the first floor- on the bus, on a planeat- for events- place where you are to do something typical (watch a film, study, work)- at a concert- at the cinema, at school, at work

Example :

Preposition of place- In our town, people work in car factories. Some people work in shops in the centre. Some people work in hotels. A lot of people work at the airport.

About our townWhere people work in our townIn our town, people work in car factories. They make cars. Some people work in shops in the centre and some people work in hotels. A lot of people work at the airport.Life in the townWhere people go in their free timeIn our town, people go to the cinema in their free time at weekends. Some people go dancing. Many people do sport - football, swimming, and bicycle riding. A lot of people go to restaurants and cafs.

About our schoolA description of our school Our school is in the north of the city near the airport and factories. It is very big. There are 40 rooms and 700 students in the school. Weve got a football field, three laboratories and a computer room. Our classroom is near the computer room.Our school dayWe go to school six days a week. We start lesson at 8 Oclock and we go home at 3 Oclock. We have lunch from 12 Oclock to 1 Oclock. We have 8 lessons every day. One lesson is 40 minutes. The students come to school when they are 11 years old.

Activity time!

Directions:1. Make a group of three.2. Write the main ideas about life in the town by using Mind map for writing. Then, write it down into a paragraph.While-writing 1Mind map for writing

Directions: 1. Read the text below Life in town. 2. Write about your town and school in the same way.Post-writingPlace describing!

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