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Around town: shopping mall, square, subway station, hotel, museum …
Textbook: pp. 24–26
GoalName places in a town: shopping mall, square, subway station, hotel, restaurant, museum, bank, crosswalk, traffic light, bus station.
New words
shopping mall · savdo markazisquare · maydonsubway station · metro bekatihotel · mehmonxonatraffic light · svetoforcrosswalk · piyodalar o‘tish joyi
Explanation
These words help us read a town map. Tashkent has a metro – in American English it is a “subway station” (in Britain it is “underground”). A “traffic light” is a signal: red means stop, green means go. A “crosswalk” is the place to cross the street. Cross only at a crosswalk, on a green light, after looking around. Plurals: museum → museums, bank → banks, restaurant → restaurants. “There is a museum” (one) and “There are two banks” (many).
Worked examples
There is a big square in the center of our town.
The hotel is near the subway station.
Class activity
“Draw the map”: pairs draw six buildings in a notebook and write the English names. Then they describe the map without showing it: “There is a bank next to the hotel.” The other pair draws it, and they compare.
Practice
1
Where do we cross the street?
at the crosswalk
2
What does a red traffic light mean?
stop
3
The building where guests stay overnight:
hotel
4
Is “banks” one or many?
many