This document provides an activity to teach students aged 10-12 how to give and follow directions to locations around their school. The activity focuses on speaking, listening, writing, and reading skills as well as vocabulary related to locations and directions. Students will first match locations like the library, teachers' room, and cafeteria to their definitions. Then working in pairs, they will write directions from the classroom to another location without naming it. Finally, students will exchange direction papers and try to follow the directions to discover the intended location.

1. Activity/Task Analysis
(File) Name: How do I get there?
Suitable Age From 10 to 12 years old
Group/level
Skill Focus Speaking, listening, writing and reading
Strategy Identify places in the school and give directions;
(It develops…) Review vocabulary related to places around the school;
Communicative goals Vocabulary related to directions.
(Using the language
for…)
Objectives
(Students will practice...)
Procedure 1) Distribute a hand out to students with places around the school
and their definitions. Students have to match places to
definitions. Example:
What’s a…. It’s a place where….
1) Library ( ) …you can eat a hot dog
2) Teachers’ room ( ) …can read a book
3) Cafeteria ( ) …the teacher prepares classes
2) In pairs, students leave the classroom and go around the school,
writing the directions to get to a place they choose on a piece of
paper. They are not supposed to write the name of the
place on the paper! Tell them to be very specific. Example:
Leave the classroom and …”turn right. Walk 10 steps and turn left.
After the teachers’ room walk 5 steps. It’s on your right.”
3) After they have finished (sometimes it takes more than one class!)
–distribute the pieces of paper among the pairs, making sure students
don’t get their own!
Now it’s the turn of the new pair to find out which place the others
went!
Variations/
Contingency Plan Make a model of the school in groups.