4 COMMUNICATION WORKSHEET Directions

Aims: To practise giving directions by playing a matching and • If they turn up the correct card and they
memory game. remembered the sentence correctly, they keep
Time: 15 minutes the card face up. If not, they turn it face down
Materials: One copy of the worksheet for each group, cut into again.
one set of pictures and a set of twelve individual cards. • Students continue taking turns to try to
Procedure: remember their sentences. The first student to
• Remind students to practise using the phrases they learned in have all their cards turned face up is the winner.
the speaking lesson, shown also in this box: • Afterwards, check that all the groups matched
the sentences to the pictures correctly. You can
PHRASEBOOK Directions do this by eliciting a couple of answers from
Asking for directions
each group.
Excuse me, I’m looking for (the hall). Answers:
Giving directions 1 G
2 K
3 J
4 D
5 C
6 L
7 A
8 I
Go along the corridor. Go past the library. 9 H
10 E
11 B
12 F
Follow-up:
Students choose a starting point and give
directions to another place. Their partner or group
members guess the place.
Go down the stairs. Turn right A You’re outside school. Turn left and go along the
street. Turn right and it’s opposite the houses.
B Is it the park?
A Yes, it is.

Go through the doors. It’s on the right.

• Put the students into groups of three or four. Give each group
a set of cards.
• The students deal out the cards between them. Give the
students two minutes to look at their cards and memorise
the directions. Then ask them to lay out the cards face down
in front of them. Tell them not to look at their cards, but to
remember which card is which. The numbers and letters
on the cards should be ignored. These are for checking the
answers at the end of the activity.
• Give each group a copy of the pictures. The students take
turns to choose a picture on their worksheet that they think
they have a matching card for. The student should say which
picture they have chosen, then say the sentence which
matches the card. They must do this from memory, without
looking at the card. Then they turn up the card which they
think is the matching one and check whether they said the
sentence correctly.

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