Directions. Lesson One:

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1 Directions Objective: Students will learn how to give and follow directions to specific locations. Students will learn how to use prepositional words. Materials: Vocabulary: right in above forward closet paddle backward beside over below baseball borrow on next to under around glove basketball on top of left at the bottom of Lesson One: 1. TPR: (Total Physical Response) Give the class these or similar directions that they are to respond to. Stand up. Turn right. Turn left. Go straight ahead. Stop. Turn right and go four steps. Turn left and go two steps. Sit down. 2. Giving simple commands. Teach action words through pictures and mime. The teacher says a single action word or phrase such as jump or point to your eye and then demonstrates the action. Give simple commands such as: touch your head, touch your nose, touch your eye, standup, sit down, point to the door, ceiling, floor etc. 3. Proceed to more difficult language while still keeping the instruction direct and visual. Ask students to do the actions you are commanding. 4. Break into groups and have an adult lead each group in commands. Have students give commands to the teacher to follow and/or to the whole group.

2 5. Song: Grand old Duke of York Do what the prepositions say (go up, down, and half way up) The Grand Old Duke of York He had 10,000 men He marched them up the hill And marched them down again And when you re up you re up And when you re down you re down And when you re only halfway up You re neither up or down. Session Two: 1. TPR: Simon Says using directional and positional words 2. Introduce and demonstrate dialogue. Practice it as a class. Dialogue: A: Can I borrow your basketball? B: Sure A: Where can I find it? B: You will find it in my closet on the left side, next to the soccer ball. Can I borrow your ping-pong paddle? A: Sure, you can find it in the right side of my closet under the baseball glove. 3. Divide into groups and have each group demonstrate the dialogue. 1. Going on a Bear Hunt A: I m going on a bear hunt. Who wants to go with me? All right, let s go! (Make walking sounds by slapping legs or tapping on table) O look! There s a creek! A and B: Can t go round it. Can t go under it. Can t go over it. Gotta go in it. (Make swimming motion) A: Now we re on the other side. Let s walk on... O look! There s a mud swamp! A and B: Can t go round it. Can t go under it. Can t go over it. Gotta go through it, (Lock fingers, press palms) A: O look! There s a bridge!

3 A and B: Can t go round it. Can t go under it. Can t go over it. Gotta go across it. (Pound chest with fists.) A: O look! There s a field of wheat! A and B: Can t go round it. Can t go under it. Can t go over it. Gotta go through it. (Slide palms together) A: O look! There s a tree! A and B: Can t go round it. Can t go under it. Can t go over it. Gotta go climb on it! (Climbing motion up and then down) A: O look! There s a cave! A and B: Can t go round it. Can t go under it. Can t go over it. Can t go across it. Gotta go in it. Oh! It s dark in here! (Close eyes, begin feeling around touch someone s head) What s this I feel? It s soft like a bear. It s furry like a bear. It s big like a Bear. IT IS A BEAR! Let s get out of here! Up the tree! Through the field! Across the bridge! Through the mud swamp! In the creek! Down the street! Into the house! Slam the door! Whee!! What a narrow escape! (climb up and down) (slide palms together) (pound chest) (lock fingers, press palms) (swimming motion) (slapping legs) (open the door) (slam the door) (wipe hand across brow)

4 Session Three: 1. Review prepositional words (on top of, at the bottom of, next to, in, etc.) 2. Play Prepositions Game Prepare cards with simple drawings. It is completely up to the teacher what he/she wants to include. Have cards with imaginary flags, object consisting of different triangles, diamonds, and rectangles, simple maps, landscapes with stick figures, and a few very basic graphs or flow charts. The students get together in pairs. Each pair receives one card. One of them takes a card and the other has a pen and some scrap paper. Then, the student who has the card has exactly 90 second to describe as much of the card as possible without showing it to his/her partner. The partner had to draw a picture according to the description. After time is up, they compare the results. Then, the roles are switched. After each of these rounds, rotate the students so that they are working with somebody else. 3. Teach the steps to the Electric Slide (Have the students repeat the steps in unison) Take 3 steps to the left and clap 1 time. Take 3 steps to the right and clap 1 time. Take 3 steps backwards and clap 1 time. Point 1 time forward and then 1 time backwards. (Once you have completed step 4, turn to the left. Keep doing steps 1 4 until you have resumed your First position.)

5 Games: Additional Ideas Prepo-Race You will need 20 pieces of paper, if you want you can divide them in two groups of ten, and label them with the numbers from one to ten, so here are the steps: 1- Make a list in the board of the common prepositions such as in, on, at, under, between, near, etc. and make a brief explanation of them. 2- Divide the class in two teams. 3- Here comes the interesting part, take the student outside. 4- Give each group ten pieces of paper. 5- Tell to each group that they have to hide the pieces of paper in different places of a designated area and also tell them that they have to write in a piece of paper the clues of where the papers were hidden; for example: Paper #1 is INSIDE the garbage can; paper # 2 is UNDER the rock that is NEAR to the slide, etc. 6- So when they finish hiding all the papers you call the two teams back and you tell them that using the other teams clues they have to search for the places where the other team hid their papers and the team who finds all the papers is the winner. If you want to, you can give a prize to the winner or even have a prize with the last piece of paper. Robot Have a teacher or student give orders with the intent of getting the teacher to sit in a chair placed at the other side of the room. The orders are to be taken with robotic literalness, meaning that if they give the wrong command and send you into a wall, walk into a wall. ( Ham it up). Variations: 1. Blind fold a teacher or student and have the students give directions to the door. You may want to spin the person blindfolded around to disorient them a little. You can even place obstacles in the way so that directions must be given to get around those objects. 2. Split the class into two teams, choose two student robots, and make the teams compete to see who will be the first team to get the robot into the chair.

6 Directions Vocabulary: right backward on on top of in beside next to left above over under at the bottom of forward below around closet baseball glove paddle borrow basketball Song: The Grand Old Duke of York He had 10,000 men He marched them up the hill And marched them down again And when you re up you re up And when you re down you re down And when you re only halfway up You re neither up or down. Dialogue: A: Can I borrow your basketball? B: Sure A: Where can I find it? B: You will find it in my closet on the left side, next to the soccer ball. Can I borrow your ping-pong paddle? A: Sure, you can find it in the right side of my closet under the baseball glove.

7 Going on a Bear Hunt A: I m going on a bear hunt. Who want to go with me? All right, let s go! O look! There s a creek! Must go in it. A: Now we re on the other side. Let s walk on... O look! There s a mud swamp! Must go through it. A: O look! There s a bridge! Must go across it. A: O look! There s a wheat field! Must go through it. A: O look! There s a tree! Must climb up it. A: O look! There s a cave! Must go in it. Oh! It s dark in here! What s this I feel? It s soft like a bear. It s furry like a bear. It s big like a bear. IT IS A BEAR! Let s get out of here! Up the tree! Through the field! Across the bridge! Through the mud swap! In the creek! Down the street! Into the house! Slam the door! Whee!! What a narrow escape!