Task: Digital texts for an ESL classroom

Pròsper Molné Blaya

Name of activity Map reading and giving directions

Age of children and level 8-9 years old (3-4 Primary school)

Skills of English they are going to practise Reading, writing, listening and speaking.

Software used Power Point

Short description of the activity and how I am going to carry it out in class

Children will use a simple map to give and ask for directions to places in the town. The teacher explains to the class in L1 that sometimes when we visit a town for the first time we might not know where places are. He /she invites them to tell him/her how they might find their way around using a map and asking someone for directions. The activity works on intrinsic values: children like getting around their own town; it is also integrative and instrumental: (very useful if you get lost).

DIRECTIONS

TURN LEFT TURN RIGHT GO STRAIGHT

PLACES OF THE CITY

ASKING FOR DIRECTIONS

HOW DO I GET TO MISS DAVIS’S

FLAT?

TURN RIGHT. GO STRAIGHT ON, PAST THE PARK. IT’S ON YOUR RIGHT.

ASKING FOR DIRECTIONS

HOW DO I GET TO THE

SUPERMARKET?

TURN LEFT. TURN RIGHT. GO STRAIGHT ON, PAST THE RESTAURANT ON YOUR LEFT HANDSIDE AND TURN RIGHT.

ASKING FOR DIRECTIONS

HOW DO I GET TO THE LIBRARY?

TURN LEFT. TURN RIGHT. GO STRAIGHT ON, AND TURN LEFT. AND THEN TURN LEFT AGAIN.

WELL DONE!