a Read the text and match the questions with paragraphs 1-5.
b Complete the text with these words.
What's it famous for?
atmosphere beach
city
festival
museums
What's the weather like?
population
river
streets
tourist
weather
What's the best thing about it? Do you like living there?
Find one grammar mistake in each highlighted
Describe your home town.
Where do you live? Where is it? How big is it?
phrase. Correct it.
The place where I live
1 I live in Porto, which is a city on the coast in the
4 Porto is famous for port wine, who is only produced here
north of Portugal. Ir has a ?
of 300,000 people
(but i don't like it muchl). The biggest ?
and it's the second bigger city in Portugal. biggest
attraction in Porto is probably the
- there are
some beautiful bridges, including one designed by
2 It's a beautiful city, and it's great for walking around.
Eiffel, and lots of tourists goes on boat trips. There's
There are lots of narrow 3
, and it's full of
in June called São Joao, with a lot of
churches,"
fireworks and people in the streets, and everybody
, and markets. There's an area called
Foz where there is a lot of outdoor bars and restaurants
spends most of the evening hitting each other with
- people go there at the weekend to sit in the sun,
plastic hammers!
drink coffee, and watch the Atlantic.
5 But I think the best things about Porto are the people
3 The '.
here is very different from the south of
and the 10
. It's quite small and it's very safe and
Portugal. The winter can be very wet, and it sometimes
friendly, It's a working city and it has a real sense of
rain for days. The summer is wonderful - it's sunny
history, and that's the main reason why I like live here
but not usually too hot, and it's great for going to the
so much.
mountains or the
WRITE a description of the place where you live.
Write five paragraphs. Answer the questions in a in the right order.
CHECK your description for mistakes ( grammar, punctuation, and spelling)
and attach a photo if you can.