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ESL Girl · Joined: 03 Sep 2007

5 of my classes are studying units about giving directions. (Such as: go straight for 2 blocks, turn right at the park, it's on your left, etc.)

I imagine there is some giving directions game or something, but for the life of me I can't find one online and I don't have the creativity to think of one that would be effective for the class. Any ideas?

Colorado · Posted: Tue Sep 02, 2008 4:18 pm Post subject:

Try blingfolding one student and have his/her partner direct them through a maze of rearranged desks to find an object in the classroom.

TeeBee · Joined: 18 Oct 2007

Colorado is on the right track. That game works like a charm. You could even add a pin-the-tail-on-the-donkey section as well, to practice up, down, left, right.

It's tons of fun watching the kids stumble around because their friends are giving them bad directions.

Also, for a bit of extra fun, you could volunteer to be blindfolded yourself and let the kids direct you. They really enjoy it.

ddeubel · Joined: 20 Jul 2005

Try this handy map for the classroom - more teacher tools like this in our Practice page on EFL Classroom 2.0
http://eflclassroom.com/tools/map.swf

This is cool. Use the arrow keys on the keyboard and students scream, left right, down...got it! http://eflclassroom.com/flash/S_L3game_02.swf

Use our Voicethreads for learning - here is one about directions.
http://voicethread.com/#u3968.b34182.i180809

If you need instructional ppts, just go to the Resources area. Also try out Media fire "Essentials" folder Lots of ppts there. http://mediafire.com/eflclassroom

Cheers,

DD
http://eflclassroom.ning.com

Katchafire · Posted: Tue Sep 02, 2008 7:36 pm Post subject:

This previous post has quite a few ideas on it.

http://forums.eslcafe.com/korea/viewtopic.php?t=117157&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0