Learn Places Vocabulary: Free Interactive English Activities
This interactive lesson helps English learners master essential vocabulary for talking about places. Students will engage in a series of reinforcing activities, starting with a word game to connect words like “location,” “traffic,” and “factory” to their definitions.
They can then test their understanding with a comprehensive 13-question multiple-choice quiz and a fill-in-the-blanks exercise. To build confidence, students will also practice writing their own sentences for every vocabulary word, explore key definitions, and reflect on their own experiences with places, traffic, and getting directions.
Interactive Places Activities
Learn English Vocabulary for Places
🗺️ Exploring Places
Learn these important words to talk about places.
Shows where places are
A house or school
Cars on the road
Makes things
A specific spot
How to get somewhere
Activity 1: Key Vocabulary
Learn these important words related to places.
- building (n): something with walls and a roof (e.g., a house, a school, a factory, etc.)
- dirty (adj): not clean
- factory (n): a place where workers use machines to make things
- free (adj): when you don’t need to pay any money for something
- polluted (adj): when the air or water isn’t clean or safe
- waste (n): old or dirty things that people do not want or need
- arrive (v): to get to a place
- directions (n): information which tells you how to get to a place
- location (n): where something is
- map (n): a picture which shows where towns, roads, rivers, etc. are
- popular (adj): when a lot of people like something
- problem (n): a difficult situation or thing that needs attention
- traffic (n): the cars, trucks, etc. on a road.

