Lesson Objective: Learn new vocabulary and one basic question/answer pattern.Use school flash cards, or link to web pictures of them online or bring pictures of your own to help your students understand the ideas below)

VOCABULARY: clean, dirty, littered, litter-free, pleasant, unpleasant, beautiful, ugly, fixed, broken, neat, messy, noisy, quiet, safe, dangerous, neighborhood, community, street, sidewalk, yard

• Teacher points to matching picture and says, "It’s clean, noisy etc." Act out or show in-class examples for additional clarity as possible and needed.

• Teacher points to pictures and asks, "What is it?" Prompt students as needed to answer correctly, "It’s a neighborhood." or It’s clean" etc.

• Teacher models a new question. How is your neighborhood? Or how is your community? Practice the words again. Alter the question. "Is it clean?" Students answer yes, it is, or no it isn’t etc.

• Practice dialog for meaning. Put the students into groups of four or five. Each person receives one word that could describe a neighborhood and a matching picture.

• Group asks each person by turn. "How is your neighborhood?" Students answer by turn, holding up their pictures. "It’s noisy." etc.

• The second time around the group, each student holds up his or her pictures and asks, "How is my neighborhood?" Group answers, "It’s noisy" etc.