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CEP Lesson Plan Template
Teacher/s: Yin Lin
Level: Elementary 1
Date/Time: November 9 / 9:00-11:00
Goal:
1. Language focus: expressions of asking for and giving directions.
2. Speaking skill: giving and getting directions.
3. Writing skill: using capital letters.
Objectives:
Students Will Be Able To
1. use capital letters properly for names, countries, months, streets, etc. in their writing.
2. ask for directions and give directions in real life.
Theme: Places
Aim/Skill/Microskill

Activity/Procedure/Stage

Interaction Time

Activity 1: Writing
skills

1. Write on the board: What are good

places to visit a city? What are good
ways to travel around the city? (Do you
prefer to travel with a group or
individually? What kind of
transportation do you prefer to use when
you travel in a city? Which season do
you like to travel?) Discuss with the
person next to you.
2. Write the following categories on the
board: seasons, months, days, places in
a city. Work in pairs to write four things
for each category. Then T write on the
board with SSs answers.
3. Open your book and turn to page 41.
This is a travel website. Read the
passage and then mark items she
described. Check your answers with
your partner. Check answers in class.
4. Read the website again. Which of these
things do not have a capital letter?
When you finish check your answers
with a partner. Check answers in class.
5. Can you give me some examples of?
(cities, countries, nationalities,

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S-S/S-T

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languages, months, days, streets, roads, S-T
parks, squares)
6. Write the description with capital letters Individual/
in exercise 2b. Check your answers with S-S/S-T
a partner. Check answers in class.
Activity 1: Listening

Pre-Listening
1. Discuss with the person next to you:
Have you ever been to the City of
Atlanta? What do you know about the
city of Atlanta? [the capital of the state
of Georgia, in the southeaster US, best
known as the headquarter of Coca-cola,
CNN, host city of the 1996 Olympics.]
2. On page 40 is a map of Atlanta. What
can you see in the map? What can you
do in these places?
3. (E1) Where do you do these things?
Check your answers with a partner.
Check answers in class.

S-S

5
5

S-T
10
S-T
3
Individual/
S-S/S-T

During Listening
(E2) Can you find the Visitors Center on
the map? (T makes sure everyone finds it).
Now, we are going to listen to a
conversation at the visitors center. Listen
for the places in the conversation. Check
answers first in pairs, then in class.
(E3) Listen again and complete the
conversation. Check answers first in pairs,
then in class. T explains the phrases and
writes no the board when checking the
answers:
- Go past the [can you name three places
you go past on your way to class?] (=
continue past something so that is now
behind you)
- Cross(street, road)
- Go straight on ( = don't turn left or
right)
- Turn left/right on

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[It's about five minutes from here.
It's about a ten-minute walk.]
Give SS handout with a map of Manhattan.
SS talk in pairs to practice asking and
giving directions.
Post-Listening
Activity1:
Can you tell me the way to? (Handout)
Student A and Student B take turns to ask
for directions to places and mark the places
on the map.

S-T/T-S
S-S

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Activity 2:
Now, everyone think of the first day of your S-T/T-S
English class. (Extra: I remember it took
Paula more than an hour to find this room
right? How did you feel?)

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Discuss these questions in pairs (also in

handout):
1. What was it like? Was it difficult or
easy?
2. How did you get here from your home?
3. How long did it take for you to get here?
4. What kind of tools did you use? Did you
use any map or ask people for help?
Share in class.
So if you are lost, how do you ask for a
direction?
- Excuse me, where is ?
- How do I get to ?
- Is it near here?
Activity 3:
What kind of expressions can you use to
give directions? (quick review)

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- Go past the
- Cross
- Go straight on
- Turn left/right on
- It's about five minutes from here.
- It's about a ten-minute walk.
- You cant miss it.
Now, imagine a friend lives with you.
He/She is interested in taking an English
course with you at Teachers College. Can
you give him/her the directions from your
home to Room Thompson 422 at Teachers
College?

Individual/
S-S

Write down the main point, and talk to the

person next to you.
Share in class.
Wrap-up

Assigning homework for todays class

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Asking for Directions and Giving Directions:

1. Asking for directions:
Excuse me, where is?
Excuse me, how do I get to?
Is there a?
Is it near here?
2. Giving Directions:
Go past the
Cross
Go straight on
Turn left/right on
Its minutes away. / Its minutes from here.
Its about a ten-minute walk.
You cant miss it.

Practice:
1. Think of the first day of your English class. Discuss these questions in pairs:
1. What was it like? Was it difficult or easy?
2. How did you get here from your home?
3. How long did it take for you to get here?
4. What kind of tools did you use? Did you use any map or ask people for help?

2. Imagine a friend lives with you. He/she is interested in taking an English course with
you at Teachers College. Can you give him/her the directions from your home to Room
Thompson 422 at Teachers College? Can you give him/her some advice?

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