• Ask students to select pictures of different neighborhood scenes or draw a picture showing some qualities of their neighborhood.

• Students describe their picture/neighborhood to other students in the group.

• The student selects or draws a picture that represents his her neighborhood

• The student writes 3 words that describe it from the target vocabulary.

• The student holds up the picture that was selected or drawn. Other students in the group try to guess what words were written down to describe it. "Is it messy? Is it quiet?" etc. Continue until all the written words have been guessed.

• Finally the original student repeats a complete description of his or her neighborhood. "My neighborhood is pleasant. It is clean. "It is noisy."

Alternative 3

• Ask each student to describe his or her neighborhood to a partner.

• The partner reports what the other person said to the group.