Giving Directions--Make Your Own Town worksheet

To start this lesson, the town and streets need names. To find names, I had the students play shiritori (Japanese for ´heads and tails´). I made six teams of students and wrote six color names on the board, one for each time. The students had to take turns going up to their own team´s color and writing a thing in English that is the same color. Example, White--snow, rabbit, soap, milk, etc. When finished, we counted to see which team had the most words. That team won and we used their team´s color as the town name, and used seven of their words and made them the seven street names. The number 1 on the page shows students how to label streets. They can choose whichever street title they like. Then for number 2, the students had to write down as many of the words as they knew in their native language. Then we went around and checked definitions and students who didn´t get some words wrote them in. Then for number 3, we went over how to give directions. The language teacher explained in the native language, while I repeated in English. On the next page, which looks like a grid of squares, the students wrote in the seven street names. They then drew in the all the (12, I think it is) locations from the definitions list (ex. bank, post office, etc.) The students made pairs and had to give each other directions to secret locations using one of their maps. The student giving directions would say, "Start at the...bank. Turn right on Milk Street. Go two blocks...etc." When the partner was led to the last direction, the first partner asked, "Where are you?" The directions are then switched and the other partner goes first.

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