Getting Around Town

A1 · Beginner1 hr 4 minBasic BasicsLesson 6 of 8 · Outline

Aims

Goal: get around town in English — say how you travel and ask for the bus, the train, or directions.

The lesson, stage by stage

  1. Warm up5 min

    Warm-up: Around town in English

    2 warm-up questions

  1. Reading10 min

    Reading: How Do You Get There?

    Read a 133-word text about How Do You Get There?

  2. Vocabulary8 min

    Vocabulary: Transport Words

    6 items

  3. Practice7 min

    Practice: How Do You Travel?

    Gap-fill exercise, 5 items

  4. Practice7 min

    Practice: Match Transport and Places

    Matching exercise, 5 items

  5. Practice7 min

    Practice: Make Transport Sentences

    Word-ordering exercise, 5 items

  6. Dialogue10 min

    Dialogue: Finding the Bus

    Role-play: You are in a new town. You want to go to the centre by bus. You ask a person on the street. (8 lines)

  7. Discussion10 min

    Discussion: Your Mission: Get to the Station

    3 discussion questions

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Target vocabulary

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