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Here you have a map. Where you can see: streets, avenues, stores, a park, a hospital and more places.

Guia N° 1: PREPOSITIONS OF PLACE

To start the guide you can to start answering those questions:

Where do you live?

Do you like your city?

Do you like to add or subtract something of your town?

Inicial activityGrade: 8vo básico.

Unit: prepositions of place.

Objectives:

-To say the distinct places which are mentioned in the exposition.

-Follow a map based on instructions received orally.

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In this guide you can identified common ways to give directions, In the following picture you can find differents phrases in that we have to used to give directions:

Practice 1: filling the gaps with at, on, in.

1. I get up ____ 7 o’clock every day.

2. I was born ____ 21 may.

3. Mary likes to go to the seaside ____ summer.

4. Steve reads the news paper _____ the morning.

5. We are going to the picnic ____ the weekend.

6. My mother is ___ home now, but I’m ___ work

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Practice 2: make a model, in pairs.

- First you have to choose a place. (town, vilage, city, etc.)

- Then you have to make a model, very simple. And create two characters.

- Your classmate will say where they want to get one of the character.

- They have to give the direction of the place (the supermarket is two blockson right on corner, etc.)

TIPS:

Charácter can be a person or animal, what ever you prefer. With this character you can say to other student how it can go where you want.

You have to give directions, write it in a paper (5 directions), and put them in a bag. The other student pick up a paper and you have to read it.

The other student has to listen you, and move the character where you say.

In the next page

you can find some s

suggestions to make a model.

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4Here you can find some links, where you can practice more this unit:

http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/vocabulary/directions

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbQjQoQnCZ8

http://www.eslgold.com/speaking/giving_directions.html

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