ask and give directions

2. Questions you may ask:
 How do I get to…..?
 How can I get to…?
 Where is the…?
 Where is the closest…..?
 I´m looking for… can you help me?

3. Examples to ask for directions.
 Where is the ´´Templo Votivo´´?
 Where is the closest gas station?
 How can I get to the midmall?
 Can you show me the way to the bus stop?
 I´m looking for supermarket, can you help me?

4. Use the expressions to ask for directions and make the
question of each answer
 _____________________________________
To get to the supermarket, go straight from this street.
 _____________________________________
You just have to walk and turn left to get the bank
 _____________________________________
The library is between the mall and the school
 _____________________________________
Walk next to the mall and there is the Police station
 _____________________________________
The bus stop is at the end of the street.

5. Examples to give directions
 The stadium is next to the bank.
 The store is between the bank and the school.
 The school is near the park.

6. Giving directions with prepositions

7. Giving directions with prepositions
 Where is the bakery?
 Where is the bank?
 Where is the grocery store?
- Near - Next to – Between – In front of.

9. Giving directions with prepositions
 Where is the park?
 Where is the Gas Station?
 Where is the shopping Mall?
 Where is the blue car?
On the corner of – across – on the…
at the…

10. Activity 1
 The police station is _________ the bank and the store.
 The drug store is ___________ the police station.
 The school is ____________ the restaurant.
 The train station is __________ the school.
 The drug store is __________ the post office and the movie
theater.
 The school is ___________ the post office.
 The train station is ___________ of first street.
Observe the map and complete
with the correct preposition
according the location of each
place.
Opposite - Near - Next to - Between - In front of - Behind - At the end of
- On the corner of - On the... - Across - Under

11. Giving directions.
HOW CAN I
GET TO THE
LIBRARY??
How can I go
to the
museum?

12. Giving directions
 Another way to give directions is to tell someone the
distance or in what direction go if you need to arrive
somewhere.
HOW CAN I
GET TO THE
LIBRARY??

13. Give directions using expressions.
 Go + direction (right, left, down , up , through , straight
on, past the.)
Eg. Go through the park and past the police
Go through Pine street until the end.
 Turn + right / left
Eg. At the end of the street, Turn right.
go through 8th street, turn left in 2nd street…

14. Go left
Go right.

15. You are here

16. Activity 1. look at the map. Choose the correct name of the
building. Write in your notebook only the answers.
1. Take long avenue and turn left. Continue in Front
street and turn left. Walk until the end of the street and
look left. _______________
2. take long avenue and in the corner of the City High
school turn left. Walk through back street and the place
is in front of the Day Care Cemter _____________
3. Walk trough Long avenue and turn left. Continue in
Front Street and turn right in border avenue. Go straight
and in the end of the street look right ______________

17. You are here

18. Activity n2. look the same map and give the instructions to get to the following
places.
 Drug store
 Library
 Coffee House
 Beauty Shop