Home | Comprehensive Lessons - ESL Classroom Grammar & Activities
Here's three of the thirty chapters in this book. These show the standard lesson structure as well as a fun practical follow up lesson. You also get to see a materials list and grammar points beforehand.
8. Town Building Locations
The goals of this lesson are to discuss towns and to apply the grammatical point: prepositions. The practical will be to make a map of the town. Time: 40 minutes and 40 minutes.
Things to Do
1. Bring or print a map for Show and Tell. It is only for the layout.
2. From Internet resources, print the preposition worksheet.
3. The game pieces will be student-provided items.
Grammar: Prepositions - Simplified
A preposition is used by two items to describe their placements to one another. Prepositions can be found in several types.
Use - Time: at, on, in, during, until, before, by
Use - Place: at, on, in, next to, under, between, in front, behind, on the left
Preposition + noun
Lesson
Show and Tell: 5 min
Display the map to the entire class.
Pose encouraging questions: "I am lost. Could you please help me? Where can I find the Clinic?"
Keywords: 5 min
Subject: places, shops, signs
Grammar: next to, between, near, on, under, in front of, behind, left of, on the left
Expressions: 10 min
The book is on the floor.
Your bag is between the cabinet and the door.
The bank is on the left of the butchers.
I must go to the dentist at 3 pm.
Activity: 15 min - Classroom Scavenger Hunt
Distribute the preposition worksheet.
Students work in pairs to discover places with two things that can be explained using prepositions.
They write their sentences on the worksheet, using the objects and prepositions.
Review: 5 min
Ask about the teams' usage of prepositions.
Practical
Activity 1: 10 min - Brainstorm a New Town
Students must develop and build a small-town map, complete with locations and route layout.
Ask, for example, "What structures do you require?" and "What do you have in your town?"
A map can include transportation lines, locations, environment, and other information.
Activity 2: 10 min - Draw the Map
Create a road network that resembles a city or downtown; the game requires that the roads be open and connected.
Draw on the layout, the structures, and other things.
Activity 3: 5 Min - Make the Game
Create several circles the size of coins on the roadways. Plan out where the game pieces can fit in clear, moveable spaces. In every cross-section, there ought to be a suitable number with at least one.
For the game points, enter a number between 1 and 6 inside the circles.
Review: 15 min
Place every player's piece on the board.
When a player rolls the dice, they move in any direction according to the dice number.
Every location they visit must be related to a store or other adjacent location in a sentence.
By the end of the game, they must have the most points to win.
