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Asking and giving directions inside buildings
Vocabulary
Giving Directions
- Go forward
- turn left/ right at the corner
- walk along
- walk straight ahead
- upstairs
- downstairs
- take the elevator
- go in
- go out
- go through
- it’s right here
- it’s on your right /left
- it’s the second door on your right
Prepositions of place
- next to
- in front of
- behind
- near
- close
- across from
Places inside the building
- Department
- laboratory
- center, administration office
- cafeteria
- hall
- classroom
- restroom
- recreational areas
- building
- campus
- copy center
- lunch room
- reception
- conference room
Pre-Task
- Teacher provides students with a quizlet set so they can check the meaning of the key vocabulary and its pronunciation. (Introduction of the vocabulary)
- Students are sent a video and they have to complete a worksheet in which they have to listen for the following details
- What is the person looking for?
- What is the location of the place inside the building?
- What are some key expressions when giving the directions?
- Teachers writes in the whiteboard expressions to ask for directions politely and they practice a short dialogue with those expressions.
- Can you tell me where the cafeteria is ?
- Could you tell me where the passport office is ?
- Students are given a sheet of paper with a map of a building, they have to ask questions to their partners and they have to give the directions. They switch places after one minute
Task
Students give directions to their classmates about the places inside the Liberia Mall
Post-Task
Students answer a quiz online
Literary Movements: Trascendentalism
Definition
It is a philosophical, political and literary movement whose father is Ralph Waldo Emerson and that proposes that knowledge can be obtained through the senses, intuition and contemplation. It arose as a reaction to or protest against the general state of intellectualism and spirituality.
Characteristics of the Movement and Literary works
- The roots of this philosophical movement go back to the theories of Immanuel Kant.ant concerned himself with the abstractions of existence – those things which cannot be known for sure.
- Trascendentalists believe that people are at their best when truly “self-reliant” and independent.
- Trascendentalists believe that individual intuition is the highest source of knowledge.
- Transcendental writers consider that religion and political parties corrupted the purity of the individual.
- A lot of the Transcendentalist writers wrote poetry as well as essays.
- The Transcendentalists believed that folks can understand truth through intuition.
- According to the Transcendentalists, the only way to access that realm of experience and knowledge is to trust in our intuition.
- Transcendentalists professed skepticism of all established religions, believing that Divinity resided in the individual.
- Transcendentalists believed that nature and man are intertwined and designed to fit together like pieces of a larger puzzle and that total consciousness could be achieved through observing nature
- Trascendentalists believe that the universe is within ourselves.
- Trascentalism opposed slavery and gender inequality
Authors and Literary Works
Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882) was an American essayist, lecturer, and poet who led the transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century. He was seen as a champion of individualism
Henry David Thoreau (July 12, 1817 – May 6, 1862) was an American essayist, poet, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, tax resister, development critic, surveyor, and historian. A leading transcendentalist, Thoreau is best known for his book Walden, a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings, and his essay “Civil Disobedience”
Sarah Margaret Fuller Ossoli (May 23, 1810 – July 19, 1850), commonly known as Margaret Fuller, was an American journalist, critic, and women’s rights advocate associated with the American transcendentalism movement.
