Topic Giving Directions Primary text The Easter Egg Secondary text Direction symbols Genres fiction poetry drama prose song news art speech movie on-line information others Learning focus listening speaking reading writing Handouts by Pi-Yu Chiang Updated on Feb. 29, 2016
The Easter Egg http://uldissprogis.com/tag/the-truth-about-direction/ Source: < http://www.theholidayspot.com/easter/history/icons/easter_egg.htm >, 2016/2/24 [Reading] The Easter Egg 1 Easter eggs are specially decorated eggs given out to celebrate the Easter holiday or springtime. 2 Many traditions and practices have formed around Easter eggs. In Europe an egg was hung on New Year trees, on Maypoles, and on St. John's trees in midsummer. Later during the Christian period, it was believed that eggs laid on Good Friday, if kept for a hundred years, would have their yolks turn to diamond. If Good Friday eggs were cooked on Easter they would promote the fertility of the trees and crops and protect against sudden deaths. And, if you would find two yolks in an Easter egg, be sure, you're going to be rich soon. That's what they believed! 3 Recently Easter eggs have been specially prepared keeping in mind those who are visually-impaired. These are called "Beeping Easter eggs" - Easter eggs that emit various clicks and noises so that the visually-impaired children can hunt for them. Some make a single, high-pitched sound and others play a melody. The purpose of this is to include one and all in the joyous Easter celebrations and to spread happiness and goodwill among everyone. After all, that is what Easter is all about. Questions for the reading: 1. What traditions have been mentioned in the reading? 2. What is the Beeping Easter egg? What is the purpose of this? Post-reading discussion: 3. What do you know about Easter eggs? 4. Is there a similar actitvity in Taiwan, which celebrates springtime, birth, fertility etc? How is it similar? 5. If you were given a task to hide the egg on the NTNU campus, where would you hide it? Source: < http://learnenglishkids.britishcouncil.org/en/speak/the-great-egg-hunt >, 2016/2/24 [Listening] Listen and watch the story. The Great Egg Hunt 1 Ben and Tess are very excited. It is the day of the great egg hunt. 2 Ben and Tess get ready to look for the golden egg. Egg, egg, egg? Pam and Sam don t know what it Easter Eggs 1
is. They take out their spypad. E, e, e, elephant? No! says Pam. E, e, e, egg? Yes! says Sam. Sam and Pam want to look for the golden egg too. The hunt starts. Quick! Let s go! Let s run! shout Ben and Tess. They run to look at the chickens. There are lots of eggs, but not a golden egg. Ben and Tess look in the green grass. No golden egg. They look in the sacks of corn. No golden egg. Ben looks behind the bricks. Tess looks under the sticks. They both look by the goats. Where is the golden egg? they ask. 3 Sam and Pam take out their spyscope. They can see eggs under the buckets. Yes! They pick up the golden egg. Egg, egg, egg! they laugh. The sky is black and it starts to rain. Ben and Tess put up their umbrella and sit under it. I m sad cries Tess. We can t find the egg. Sam and Pam hear their spyphone ring. They need to go back to space in their spaceship. They want the children to have the golden egg. Egg, egg, egg! they agree. Sam and Pam have an idea. They draw on the golden egg and roll it to the children. Look, Tess! says Ben. The egg s here! Quick, let s go! Sam and Pam go home in their spaceship. They ve got the pink egg and the red egg! Egg, egg, egg! they laugh. Ben and Tess run back to Mum and Dad. Look, look, we ve got a golden egg! Ben screams. What a great egg hunt! everybody agrees. [Speaking] Comprehension check: work in pairs and answer the following questions. 1. What are the 4 characters in this story? 2. How did the human children find the golden egg? 3. What happened to the pink egg and the red egg? 4. At what places did they look for eggs? Asking and Giving Directions: Language Focus: Verbs and prepositions in giving directions Sentence patterns in asking and giving directions Vocabulary and Sentence Patterns Easter Eggs 2
Questions you can ask about directions: Can you please tell me how I can get to Oxford Street? Where is the nearest supermarket? How can I get to the local market? I'm trying to get to Downing Street. How do I get to the office? What's the best way to get to your house next? Where is Mc Donalds can you tell me please? How to give directions to somebody else: Go straight on till you see the hospital then turn left. Turn back, you have gone past the turning. Turn left when you see a roundabout. Turn right at the end of the road and my house is number 67. Cross the junction and keep going for about 1 mile. Take the third road on the right and you will see the office on the right Take the second road on the left and you will see the hospital straight ahead Easter Eggs 3
The hospital is opposite the railway station. The shop is near the hospital. The house is next to the local cricket ground. The shop is in between the chemist and KFC. At the end of the road you will see a roundabout. At the corner of the road you will see red building. Just around the corner is my house you will need to stop quickly or you will miss it. Go straight on at the traffic lights. Turn right at the crossroads. Follow the signposts for Manchester. Exercise 1 (Source : https://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/vocabulary/directions/exercises) What's the best way to the post office? (Use the map for orientation.) A: Excuse me, where is the post office, please? B: at the next corner. Then until you come to the traffic lights. there. The post office is the cinema. Exercise 2: Information Gap Before the exercise: 1. Students find their partner. Sit back to back, or sit side by side with a divider in between. 2. Student A and Student B recives their respective handout. Easter Eggs 4
During the exercise: Student A begins with 1, 2, etc. and tells Student B how to find these places. Follow the example. A: We will start by finding the Sports Shop. B: Did you say the Sports Shop? A: That s right. Do you see Glass Road at the top? B: Yes, the top. A: Do you see Rock Street on the left side? B: Yes. on the left side. A: Where Rock Street and Glass Road meet is the Sports Shop. B: In the corner? A: You meant on the corner, didn t you? B: Right. The Sports Shop is on the corner. After the exercise 1. Students share how they feel about this exercise and ask questions. 2. Encourage some pairs to give the class a demonstration. Exercise 3: Egg Hunt on Campus Before the exercise: 1. Students meet at the entrance of the swimming pool. Draw their partners and pair up. 2. Students (or Teacher) prepare candies and put them in a bag. Seal the bag and write their partner s name on the bag. 3. Students hide their sealed bag of candies somewhere on campus, and then come back. Teacher can set restrictions on certain places to make the game easier or harder. During the exercise: 4. Students give instructions to their partners. Their partners are expected to follow the instructions and successfully locate the candies. 5. Students leave their phone numbers to their partner. If they couldn t find the candies, they could call. 6. Set a time limit for the hunt. Students are expected to come back with candies. After the exercise: 7. Have students share their hunting experience to the class. Easter Eggs 5