Places in the City Worksheets for ESL Vocabulary

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Four worksheets ask ESL students to look at pictures and write the correct name for each place in the city, covering 36 vocabulary words across four themed word banks. The first page groups everyday locations such as house, church, school, park, restaurant, and hospital; the second introduces civic and transit locations like fire station, police station, bank, bus stop, and train station; the third adds recreational and commercial sites such as zoo, stadium, playground, mall, and airport; and the fourth rounds out the set with specialty shops and services including barber shop, pet shop, gym, farm, and aquarium. Each page repeats the same "Look at the pictures and write the names of the places in the city" instruction with a Name/Date header, making the four sheets usable individually or as a complete unit.

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Teaching tips & learning objectives

Learning objectives

Identify and correctly spell vocabulary words for common city locations from a picture prompt.
Build receptive and productive vocabulary for describing places in a city or town.

Teaching tips

Introduce the 36 target words as a class before assigning the worksheets, since the picture prompts alone may not clarify unfamiliar buildings for beginner ESL students.
Assign the four worksheets across separate lessons (everyday places, civic/transit, recreational, specialty shops) rather than all at once, since each groups a distinct vocabulary theme.
Follow up with a speaking activity where students describe what happens at each labeled location.

Skills covered

Picture-to-word vocabulary labeling — students view an image of a city location and write its correct English name.
City-vocabulary categorization — students build vocabulary across four thematic groups: everyday places, civic/transit, recreational/commercial, and specialty shops.

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Core concepts

ESL vocabulary
city vocabulary
places in the city

Topics

city locations worksheets vocabulary ESL ELA city locations places English places in a city

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