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Supplementary Material: Ask and Tell Where Places Are

This document provides supplementary materials for teaching locations and directions in English. It includes questions for asking about locations like "Where is X?" and expressions for describing locations such as "near", "across from", and "next to". An exercise asks students to use a sample map to answer questions involving walking between locations and turning directions. A second exercise asks students to draw a map of their room and describe its layout and contents using spatial prepositions and expressions. Keys are provided to check the students' work.

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Supplementary Material: Ask and Tell Where Places Are

This document provides supplementary materials for teaching locations and directions in English. It includes questions for asking about locations like "Where is X?" and expressions for describing locations such as "near", "across from", and "next to". An exercise asks students to use a sample map to answer questions involving walking between locations and turning directions. A second exercise asks students to draw a map of their room and describe its layout and contents using spatial prepositions and expressions. Keys are provided to check the students' work.

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ASK AND TELL WHERE PLACES ARE


(Supplementary Material for Elementary and Pre-Intermediate Modules.
Suggested Supplementary Material for Intermediate Module)
When we want to ask for the location of a place we use questions like:

Excuse me. Is there a near here?


Pardon me. How can I get to ?
How far is the nearest from here?
Where can I find ?
Where is ?
Could you tell me where is, please?

To indicate locations, we use expressions such as:

on Avenue/Street across from


near in the middle of
at the end of the block next to
far from / not far from between
past/before on the corner (of)
opposite go straight ahead
in front of behind
turn right/left around the corner from
next door the first /second right/left

EXERCISE 1. Use this map and answer the questions below.

1. You are in front of the cinema. Walk along Main Street to the corner of Main and Harvard. Turn left and
go into the third store on your left.
Where are you?

2. You are on First Avenue at the subway station. Walk along First Avenue to Main Street. Turn right on
Main Street and go into the first shop on you right.
What store is opposite you?

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3. You are on Wood Street near the department store. Walk along Wood Street and turn left on Main Street.
Then take your second right. Go into the second door on your right.
What's next to you?

4. You are at the phone booth. Walk to Market Street and turn left. Go along Market Street until you get
to Wood Street. Turn left on Wood Street. Take the first right and go into the first building on your right.
What's behind you?

5. Tell someone how to go from the bank to the zoo.

6. Tell someone how to go from the Court House to the phone booth.

7. Tell someone how to go from the parking lot to a place that is across from the school.

EXERCISE 2. Draw a map of your room. Write about it using some of these expressions:
there is - there are - to the left of - to the right of - next to - between
in front of - against - behind - on - in - under - on top of

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KEY-CHECK. ASK AND TELL WHERE PLACES ARE

EXERCISE 1.

1. In the ice cream parlor


2. The drugstore
3. The travel agency and the drugstore
4. The parking lot
5. ASK THE LAB TEACHERS TO CHECK YOUR ANSWERS
6. ASK THE LAB TEACHERS TO CHECK YOUR ANSWERS
7. ASK THE LAB TEACHERS TO CHECK YOUR ANSWERS

EXERCISE 2.

ASK THE LAB TEACHERS TO CHECK YOUR ANSWERS

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