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COOKING WITH PRESENT SIMPLE: Engage in a recipe writing workshop to master the present simple tense.
JOURNALING PAST EVENTS: Develop writing skills by creating a weekly journal using the simple past tense.
NAVIGATING TREASURE MAPS: Improve vocabulary related to countable nouns through an exciting island mapping mission.
PROMOTING HEALTHIER HABITS: Create posters to encourage better habits while learning comparatives and superlatives.
EXPRESSING DESIRES AND WISHES: Practice the present continuous tense through wishful thinking, chatting, and expressing desires.

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Part 8. Mapping Our Town

This lesson explores towns and introduces the grammar point of prepositions. The practical involves making a map of the town.

Time: 40 and 40 minutes.

Things to Do:

Bring or print a map solely for the layout during Show and Tell.

Print the prepositions worksheet from online resources.

Students will use their own game pieces, such as an eraser or sharpener unless specific items are available.

Grammar: Prepositions

Prepositions typically come before a noun or pronoun and indicate the relationship between that noun or pronoun and other words in the sentence. For example, prepositions can show time, place, direction, or manner.

We use "At" in time and place.

15. Prepositions

1. Show and Tell: 5 min

Display the map to the class and ask encouraging questions like, "Can you please help me? I am lost. Where can I find the clinic?"

2. Learn: 15 min - Subject/Grammar

Next to/park: "The park is next to the shops."

Between/signs: "There are signs between the supermarket and the park."

At/supermarket: "The supermarket is at the end of the street."

On/shops: "You can find shops on the other side of the park."

3. Activity: 15 min - Classroom Scavenger Hunt

Distribute the preposition worksheet.

Working in pairs, students find places with two things described using prepositions.

They write their sentences on the worksheet using prepositions.

4. Review: 5 min

Discuss with the teams the usage of prepositions.

16. Map-Making Challenge

1. Activity: 10 min - Brainstorming a New Town

Students must develop and construct a small-town map with locations and route layouts. Ask, "What building do you want?" and "What exists in your town?"

A map includes transportation lines, locations, environment, and other information.

2. Activity: 10 min - Draw the Map

Create a road network that resembles a city or downtown. The roads need to be open and connected.

Draw the structures and other features on the layout.

3. Activity: 5 Min - Making the Game

Create several circles on the roadways that are the size of coins. Plan out where the game pieces can fit in clear, movable spaces.

They will place one in every cross-section for about 10 to 12 spaces minimum.

Assign a number between 1 and 6 to each circle on the roadways for points.

4. Review: 15 min

Place each player's piece on the board. When players roll the dice, they move in any direction according to the dice number.

To describe each location they visit, a preposition that relates to a store or adjacent area must be used in the sentence.

The player with the highest score at the end of the game wins.

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