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sixteen places  ·  every one tested  ·  what is on your block

Sixteen places on one city street. The picture is the meaning, so no picture word is translated. The hard part is the spelling, and one false friend: a library is not a bookstore. Click any picture to hear it.

★ sixteen places, point to it, choose two  ·  ★★ half of the word, spell it  ·  ★★★ use it, on my block

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For the teacher · In class

project ★, point at a picture, everyone says the word together. Then "type the word for picture 7 in the chat", and twelve answers arrive at once. For ★★★, one student reads their sentence out loud before anybody types, and the rest type theirs. Nobody's block is wrong.

Unit 11 teacher's key (PDF)

★ Sixteen places

Sixteen city places. Click a picture to hear it. Write the word under it.

★ Point to it

Click 🔊. Write the number of the place you hear.

Number

★ Choose two

Two places. One is right for the picture. Write it.

  1. fire stationpolice station
  2. post officebank
  3. parkbus stop
  4. subway stationbus stop
  5. supermarketrestaurant

One place, two names

Some places have two names in English. Both are correct. The picture teaches one; you will hear both.

Watch out: library is not a bookstore

★★ Half of the word

Some letters are missing. Write the whole word.

  1. s _ _ o o l
  2. h o s p _ t _ l
  3. p o l i _ e s t a _ _ o n
  4. c o _ _ e e s h o p

★★ Spell it

Click the picture. Listen. Then write the place.

  1. bra, not ber. Say LIE-brer-ee.
  2. Two words.
  3. ph at the start. You hear f.
  4. au in the middle, ant at the end.
  5. Three beats. The end is -mat.
  6. Two words.
  7. Two words. One p in the first word.

★★★ Use it

Before a, e, i, o, u we say an: an apartment building.

Look at the picture. Write a sentence with There is.

  1. What is on your block?
  2. What is on your block?
  3. What is on your block?
  4. What is on your block?

★★★ On my block

Say one true sentence about your own block. Then type it in the chat.

  1. 1There ison my block.
  2. 2There ison my block.
  3. 3There ison my block.

Any real place on your block is right.

For the teacher · Answer key