Home, Town, Neighbourhood and Region
Talk about your town and region in Bengali. Learn the words for places like a library, a bakery and a pharmacy, and features of the landscape, each shown in the Bengali script with its sound and meaning.
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Your town and region in Bengali 🏘️
To talk about where you live in Bengali, you need the **vocabulary** for the places in your town and the features of your region. Each word is written in the **Bengali script**, with its sound in brackets and its English meaning beside it, so you learn to read it and say it at the same time.
Places in town 🏦
Learn each place in the Bengali script, with its sound and meaning:
Buildings or landscape? 🗺️
It helps to sort the words into buildings you visit and features of the landscape:
Match the Bengali to the English 🔗
- ফার্মেসী (pharmesi)
- বেকারী (bekari)
- লাইব্রেরি (laibreri)
- স্মৃতিসৌধ (smritishoudho)
- a pharmacy
- a bakery
- a library
- a monument
Which word? 🎯
Which Bengali word means library?
- লাইব্রেরি (laibreri)
- ফার্মেসী (pharmesi)
- বেকারী (bekari)
- স্মৃতিসৌধ (smritishoudho)
More useful words 🚸
Beyond the buildings, the landscape has a mountain, **পাহাড় (pahar)**, and a bridge, **সেতু (setu)**. In daily town life, the cost of something is **খরচ (khoroch)**, a bath is **গোসল (gosol)**, and sadly a road accident is **সড়ক দুর্ঘটনা (sorok durghotona)**.
Match the Bengali to the English 🔀
- পাহাড় (pahar)
- সেতু (setu)
- রাস্তা পারাপার (rasta parapar)
- সড়ক দুর্ঘটনা (sorok durghotona)
- a mountain
- a bridge
- a pedestrian crossing
- a road accident
Which are buildings? ✅
Select the TWO words that are buildings you can go into.
- ফার্মেসী (pharmesi)
- লাইব্রেরি (laibreri)
- পাহাড় (pahar)
- সেতু (setu)
Getting to the library 🪜
An interactive activity.
Complete the town 🧩
In Bengali, a library is _____. A bakery is _____. A pharmacy is _____. A mountain is _____ and a bridge is _____.
Spot the true statements 🖍️
An interactive activity.
Where do you go? 🧭
An interactive activity.
Describe your area ✍️
An interactive activity.