6.1 Asking directions pages 52-55
6.2 Talking about places pages 52-53
6.1 |
Objectives |
Practice of asking for, and understanding, directions. |
Materials
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Maps A and B. |
In pairs, learners ask each other the questions indicated in order to find out where things are and note them on their map.
6.2 |
Objectives |
Using the language of units 5 and 6 to talk about places in an open-ended way, giving learners a choice in what they say. |
Materials |
none |
1 Prepare by presenting matrices of possible sentence structures used to talk about a town.
| (não) | há | uma farmácia um museu supermercados |
no centro da cidade perto na rua Chester |
| a biblioteca a piscina o banco |
(não) | é está |
no centro aberto/a fechado/a |
todos os dias aos domingos |
2 Ask your learners, working in groups of two, three or four, to imagine they're talking to someone from Portugal about their home town/village. Give them a fixed time (10-15 minutes) to come up with as many simple statements as they can, e.g.
- há uma piscina
- não há um museu
- o banco está fechado aos domingos
- há um restaurante italiano na High Street
An element of competition enhances this activity.
3 At the end of the time allowed, each group reads out one of their statements in turn until all the prepared statements are exhausted. The activity can be consolidated by asking questions to the group as a whole, e.g.
O supermercado está aberto todos os dias? E o banco?
. . . and extended by bringing in new words that are easy to guess, e.g.
restaurante chinês, escola de ténis.
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