In this lesson, you can learn how to describe your hometown in English. Talking about your hometown is useful for your conversational English, and could also help you in your writing exams.
Where do you live? Do you live in a small town, a big city, or a remote village? What’s it like?
Talking about the Landmarks in your Hometown
Every town and city has at least one landmark.
Do not say that your hometown doesn’t have any landmarks. There must be at least one. So you can talk about that.
These are the kind of landmarks you can find in English towns:
- Churches
- A library
- A town hall
- A well-known pub (every English town has many pubs)
- A town square
- A park
Examples
There’s a shopping centre in the middle of my hometown. It’s kind of boring but me and my friends go there because it’s the only place for us to go on a Saturday evening.
One time we went there, and they had a little show in the middle of the centre. Some local singers who sing in a choir were doing a performance. I think they were trying to raise money for a local charity.
Other landmarks could be:
- A mosque
- A temple
- A shopping mall
- A restaurant
- A big tree
- A school or university
- A hill
Writing Activity
Spend some time thinking about the landmarks in your hometown. Write some sentences about each one, describing the landmarks in detail. If you have any interesting stories to tell about the landmarks, then write them down too.
Video Quiz Questions
Choose the correct options.
- New York
- Las Vegas
- California
- Brazil
- No, it’s small.
- Yes, it’s huge.
- It’s massive.
- It’s gigantic.
- Loud, parties and dancing
- Lakes, rafting and parks
- Quiet, parks and nature
- None of the above
- About 5 hours by car
- About 5 hours by train
- About 4 hours drive
- About a five hour walk
- Hiking and skiing
- Hiking and biking
- Hiking and shopping
- Biking and mountains
- It gets very cold.
- It’s always cold.
- It’s often cold.
- It never gets too cold.