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Lesson no. 4
19 June 2009 / Friday
(16:05 – 17:55)
Topic of today: City Maps & Directions
I started the class with asking the students to imagine if they were in another country for a holiday and they didn’t know the place very well. At such times one needs clear directions to get to a certain place. I first held a brainstorming session about the possible places/buildings that could be present in a city. At a certain point the whole green board was full with words. (In the end I’ll try to write as many words as I can remember from the brainstorming session.) It was a good practice what concerns vocabulary building. Below you’ll find list of some words that were mentioned:
Airport
AZC
Beauty parlour
Butchery
Cinema
Church/Mosque
Dentist
Harbour/Port
Hospital
Laboratory
Library
Museum
Pharmacy
Police Station
Post office
River/Lake/Sea/Ocean (I didn’t know the difference between these :$)
Salon
School
Shopping Mall
Supermarket
Town hall (‘stadhuis’)
Train Station
University
During the brainstorming session any unclear words were explained. Afterwards an imaginary map was drawn on the board, and some words from the green board were chosen and added in the map. The streets were given various names. It was a basic map used in order to explain the concept of giving directions. A blue dot was drawn, and ‘I am here’ was written next to it. Under it a green dot was drawn, and ‘I want to go here’ was written next to it. Then on the map I worked with blue and green dots to let our imaginary person get to the place of his dreams (if I may put it that way :P)
The following words were used in order to give directions:
Left (turn to the left/ turn left)
Right
Straight (go straight)
To cross the road
Next to/ close to/ near to
North/South/East/West
(Some phrases e.g. ‘across the street’, can also be found in the handout)
The handout was distributed and explained to students in small groups. (The handout is pasted below)
Some students were done with this handout quite quickly, therefore I gave them the backup-handout with present continuous and future tense.
Today’s class was really good The students were enthusiastic as always. There were three people who would like to begin with the very basics, as they speak almost no English. I need to think of a plan to do something about that. Further, the rest of the class is doing good. Some people are doing great and I’d try to make more handouts for them.
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P.S: I mentioned that next week there is going to be a class on Tuesday 16:00 instead of Wednesday.
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Handout:
Handout removed due to COPYRIGHT... check: http://www.english-zone.com/reading/citymap01.html for the handout I used during the class.
I started the class with asking the students to imagine if they were in another country for a holiday and they didn’t know the place very well. At such times one needs clear directions to get to a certain place. I first held a brainstorming session about the possible places/buildings that could be present in a city. At a certain point the whole green board was full with words. (In the end I’ll try to write as many words as I can remember from the brainstorming session.) It was a good practice what concerns vocabulary building. Below you’ll find list of some words that were mentioned:
Airport
AZC
Beauty parlour
Butchery
Cinema
Church/Mosque
Dentist
Harbour/Port
Hospital
Laboratory
Library
Museum
Pharmacy
Police Station
Post office
River/Lake/Sea/Ocean (I didn’t know the difference between these :$)
Salon
School
Shopping Mall
Supermarket
Town hall (‘stadhuis’)
Train Station
University
During the brainstorming session any unclear words were explained. Afterwards an imaginary map was drawn on the board, and some words from the green board were chosen and added in the map. The streets were given various names. It was a basic map used in order to explain the concept of giving directions. A blue dot was drawn, and ‘I am here’ was written next to it. Under it a green dot was drawn, and ‘I want to go here’ was written next to it. Then on the map I worked with blue and green dots to let our imaginary person get to the place of his dreams (if I may put it that way :P)
The following words were used in order to give directions:
Left (turn to the left/ turn left)
Right
Straight (go straight)
To cross the road
Next to/ close to/ near to
North/South/East/West
(Some phrases e.g. ‘across the street’, can also be found in the handout)
The handout was distributed and explained to students in small groups. (The handout is pasted below)
Some students were done with this handout quite quickly, therefore I gave them the backup-handout with present continuous and future tense.
Today’s class was really good The students were enthusiastic as always. There were three people who would like to begin with the very basics, as they speak almost no English. I need to think of a plan to do something about that. Further, the rest of the class is doing good. Some people are doing great and I’d try to make more handouts for them.
.
P.S: I mentioned that next week there is going to be a class on Tuesday 16:00 instead of Wednesday.
.
Handout:
Handout removed due to COPYRIGHT... check: http://www.english-zone.com/reading/citymap01.html for the handout I used during the class.
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