What does town planner mean?
Word: Town planner
Part of Speech: Noun
Meaning: Town planner means a person whose job is to plan how a town or city grows, deciding where homes, roads, parks and schools should go.
How do you spell town planner?
Syllables: town plan - ner
Tricky part: The second word has a double n; writing only one is the usual slip.
Watch out for: townplanner, town plannor
Memory tip: The second word has two beats, and each beat brings its own n: one n ends the first beat, one starts the second.
Town planner in a sentence
Example 1: The town planner marked spaces for three new parks on the map.
Example 2: A town planner must think about traffic, water and schools for years ahead.
Example 3: My cousin studied architecture and now works as a town planner in Jaipur.
Fun Fact
Chandigarh, one of India's best-known planned cities, was designed in the 1950s by the architect Le Corbusier and his team and is divided into numbered sectors.
Practise the CREST Way
Spell-o-Spell
Choose the correctly spelt word:
a) contracter
b) carpentar
c) desiner
d) town planner
Show answer
d) town planner. Contractor ends in or, designer has a silent g, and carpenter ends in er.
Word Cookie
Insert the correct pair of letters to form a word:
t_wn pl_nner
a) a, a
b) o, e
c) o, a
d) u, a
Show answer
c) o, a. Town has the ow of cow, and the second word is plan with letters added.
Word Cookie
Find the extra letter in the word:
town planneer
a) e
b) n
c) a
d) r
Show answer
a) e. Only one e comes before the final r.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Which question would a town planner be most likely to ask?
a) What should we cook for dinner?
b) Which song should open the show?
c) Where should the new bus depot go?
d) How many goals did we score?
Show answer
c) Where should the new bus depot go?
2. A town planner would be happiest to see ____.
a) a rubbish dump beside the market
b) a traffic jam outside the school gate
c) a park within walking distance of homes
d) houses with no road leading to them
Show answer
c) a park within walking distance of homes
