My world: Travel to Singapore

What the lesson is about

This A1 lesson takes students on a virtual trip to Singapore to explore city vocabulary and the grammar structure there is / there are. Starting from a night-time photo of the city, students identify what they can see, then move through a listening dialogue, a reading text, and a series of grammar exercises — all set in the context of describing places in a city.

Vocabulary

Students learn two sets of words. Places in the city: airport, garden, building, waterfall, street, park, city. Adjectives to describe them: modern, clean, safe, beautiful, big, small, expensive, cheap, dirty, dangerous, fantastic, amazing, tall, busy. Exercises include matching words to photos, connecting opposites, gap-fill sentences about Singapore, and labelling pictures with vocabulary from the lesson.

Grammar focus: there is / there are

Students study the rule through a visual grammar table: there is + a/an for singular nouns, there are + many/numbers for plural nouns. The lesson uses Singapore and Tokyo as contexts for practice — multiple-choice, gap-fill in a connected text, and word-order tasks (There is a waterfall in the airport). A speaking task asks students to describe a photo of Changi Airport's indoor waterfall using the target structure and adjectives from the lesson.

Speaking and homework

Students describe their own city using a guided structure: name, size, character (modern or old, expensive or cheap), then There is a… and There are… sentences. The homework section introduces Shanghai through a listening text, followed by matching, gap-fill, and picture-labelling tasks that recycle all the vocabulary and grammar from the lesson.