☕ There's a Café on the Corner

In Lesson 8 of the Fleydo A1 Adults grammar series, students learn there is and there are — the essential structure for describing what exists in a place. The lesson opens with a warm-up contrasting there is (one thing) with there are (many things). The dialogue follows Mr Brown taking Anna, Marco and Yuki on a neighbourhood walk through north London, spotting cafés, parks, shops, banks and bus stops while naturally producing affirmative, negative and question forms. A 20-item vocabulary table covers common places found in any town or city, each with an example sentence. Three grammar boxes break down the structure: Box A teaches the affirmative with the note that there's is the common short form while there are has no contraction; Box B covers negatives and introduces the important pattern with any in negative sentences; Box C shows how to form Yes/No questions by swapping there and is/are, plus the use of any in plural questions. Practice includes a 10-question interactive game, a 6-question quiz, 8 fill-in-the-blank diary sentences with dropdown selectors, a speaking task where learners ask about each other's neighbourhoods, and a writing task describing their own street in 5 sentences.