Lesson Overview

This A2 ESL lesson explores the topic of giving directions, helping students navigate a city, describe locations, and explain how to get to different places.

Learners practise essential vocabulary for places around town, including the hospital, library, cinema, park and bus stop. They develop their understanding of directional language, practising useful expressions such as go straight ahead, turn left, go past, next to, and on the corner, while building confidence using these phrases in everyday situations.

This lesson is ideal for A2 learners who want to develop their speaking, listening, reading and vocabulary skills while practising practical English for navigating unfamiliar places and asking for help in everyday situations.

1. Warm Up: Lost in the City
2. New Words: Places
3. New Words: Sentences
4. Giving Directions: Key Words
5. Directions: Dialogue 1
6. Let's Read: Directions
7. Audio: David and Hannah
8. Give Directions: Showtime
9. Give Directions: Where To?

Homework

Students answer questions about getting lost, exploring new cities and asking for help. They also practise writing detailed directions to familiar places and use a map to describe routes to different locations.

1. Writing: Questions
2. Give Directions: Where To?