Make the classroom into city streets July 31, 2007
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A good idea for teaching directions in the classroom is to set up all the desks so that there is a typical street pattern which you then use to direct the students through to a specified goal.
You could also play videos of travel and music or soundtracks of busy places or street corners.
Drawing the Teacher’s Home July 31, 2007
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Materials: paper and pencils, a floor plan for each student, a large diagram of the teacher’s home to place on the board afterwards, photos of the house?
The students listen to a description of the teacher’s home and draw in the items on their floor plan.
Afterwards, the teacher pins up the large copy of the actual floorplan with items so the students can compare theirs with the actual one. Note any differences in assumptions based on the different cultures?
Directions around the school (TPR Directions) July 30, 2007
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From Dave’s ESL Cafe
Aims: directions
Materials: signs to post
This person…
placed a series of signs leading from my classroom with instructions like “Go down the stairs, and turn left” or “Take the second right”. There were a few false trails to make things interesting (both loops or dead ends). Let students go at spaced intervals, then meet them at the finish line.
It is easy to include some prepositions as well… or get them to perform a specific task.
Imitate the Photo July 25, 2007
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Materials: photos
Split the students into teams. Choose the appropriate number of students as are in the photo to go to the front. Show the remaining students the photo. They have to tell their group to get into the position of the people/animals in the photo. They can’t go up to the students, just tell them from their seat. Prizes go to students with the closes pose. Review vocabulary: body parts, left/right. Up/down, forward/backward/ stop, a little, out/in, straight/bend.
Charades July 25, 2007
Posted by serenden in direction, sports, weather.add a comment
Materials: flashcards.
Have a student pick from a pile of cards and perform the sport. Groups must guess what the English word is, and then they get a point. Many ways to set it up.
