This document provides information about places in a community through several subtopics: 1. It describes where people work in the town, including car factories, shops in the city center, hotels, and the airport. 2. It discusses how people spend their free time in the town on weekends, such as going to the cinema, dancing, various sports, and restaurants or cafes. 3. It provides details about the school, including its location near the airport and factories, its size of 40 classrooms and 700 students, facilities like football fields and laboratories, and the classroom's proximity to the computer room.

1. Unit : Places
Topic : Interesting Places in
Community
Sub-topic : Sites
Matthayomsuksa 2

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

4. Vocabulary

5. café (n.)
a small restaurant where
drinks and snacks are sold
Ex. A lot of people go to restaurants and cafés.

7. start (v.)
take the first step or
steps in carrying out an
action
Ex. We start lesson at 8 O’clock and we go home
at 3 O’clock.

9. field (n.)
a piece of land cleared
of trees and usually
enclosed
Ex. We’ve got a football field.

11. Structure

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

13. Preposition Usage Example
in - months / seasons
- time of day
- year
- after a certain period of time
(when?)
- in August / in winter
- in the morning
- in 2006
- in an hour
on - 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

14. Example :
Preposition of time
-We start lesson at 8
O’clock.
- We go home at 3
O’clock.

15. Preposition of place
Preposition Usage Example
in - 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
world
on - 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 plane
at - 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

16. 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.

17. About our town
Where people work in our town
In 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 town
Where people go in their free time
In 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 cafés.

18. About our school
A 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. We’ve got a football
field, three laboratories and a computer room. Our
classroom is near the computer room.
Our school day
We go to school six days a week.
We start lesson at 8 O’clock and we go
home at 3 O’clock. We have lunch from
12 O’clock to 1 O’clock. We have 8
lessons every day. One lesson is 40
minutes. The students come to school
when they are 11 years old.

19. Activity
time!

20. 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 1
Mind map for writing

21. Directions:
1. Read the text below “Life in town”.
2. Write about your town and school in the same way.
Post-writing
Place describing!