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Places Around Town
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Activity Description
Students will learn how to identify places around town and identify them on a google map.
Preparation
- Check the website to ensure it is not blocked at your site.
- Read through the lesson plan.
- Print and make copies of any handouts.
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Adults with disAbilities
This activity is a great audio activity for many learners. You can choose a category to work on. The visual picures are great in this example. As working with adults, be mindful of appropriate images, not too cartoonish.
1. Follow lesson as described.
2. You can take this very slow, modify if needed. Talk about category, what other things can be transportation?
3. How many have seen ....an airplane, been on an airplane, etc
4. Have learners point to an item on the photo, describe it.
Included in this lesson plan, is a scavenger hunt form,for online, or in classroom. Learners had a great time with this, sharing what they had to all online.
Program Areas
- ESL: English as a Second Language
- AwD: Adults with Disabilities
Levels
- Beginning Literacy
- Beginning Low
Lesson Plan
Access prior knowledge by reviewing. Create an environment for learning.
Model: What is your favorite store? My favorite store is ___________________.
- Ask students to volunteer to answer the question.
- Use Google Translate and translate differnt places in students' native language.
- If necessary, translate the question in their native language.
- Place students in breakout rooms or in small groups and have students make a list of places.
Jigsaw: When students return to the main room, ask them to type in their favorite store in the chat window. Create a store list from the zoom chats.
Software Tour: (Co-use) Location Prepositions
Share this Learning Chocolate page on location prepositions.
- Group students in breakout rooms or in small groups with one phone or tablet per group.
- Designate one student to share the screen and read aloud the location prepositions. Next have them play the matching games.
- When students return from the breakout rooms check answers and answer any questions.
Provide an overview of content focusing on learners' interest and attention.
Share Learning Chocolate page about different places around town.
- Click on the places and have students repeat.
- Play the matching and dictation games in learning chocolate. These are located on the top menu bar.
- Share aloud why we visit the different places by introducing the verbs: study, eat and have.
Documents
- Scavenger Hunt words.docx - Scavenger Hunt
Standards
- Reading Foundational Skills
- RF.2 - Demonstrate understanding of spoken words, syllables, and sounds (phonemes). (Phonological Awareness)
- Writing
- CCR Anchor 6 - Use technology, including the Internet, to produce and publish writing and to interact and collaborate with others.
- Speaking and Listening
- CCR Anchor 1 - Prepare for and participate effectively in a range of conversations and collaborations with diverse partners, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly and persuasively.
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