Session 1 Review Study Records. Check Study Path and warm-up: "How are you today?" Stress importance of review. Review Study Score. Provide coaching information. Improve Study Score. Practice recording key sentences to improve fluency and pronunciation. Review Activity: Telephone phrases Listen and repeat the phrases. Main Activity 1: Places and their function (NDE Locations) Focus on places of business. Main Activity 2: Map practice Have students give locations on the map. Review Activity: Telephone phrases Repeat these phrases: (1) May I speak to Mr Blake please? (2) I'm sorry. He's in a meeting. (3) May I take a message? (4) That's okay. I'll call back later. (5) May I ask who's calling? (6) Sure. My name is ... I'm a friend of his. (7) Thank you. I'll tell him you will call back. Main Activity 1: Places and their function. Focus on 5 or 6 of these places and have the student explain what they are: hospital, bank, hotel, post office, drugstore/chemist, office building, gas station/petrol station, taxi stand, rest room, grocery store, theater/cinema, library, etc. Example: A hospital is where people go when they are sick or injured. You can get money at a bank. You can buy medicines and vitamins at a drugstore. You can see a movie at a theater. There are many offices in an office building. Etc. Main Activity 2: Map practice: Giving location. Use the Maps (see Worksheets) and have the student give you the location of the listed places in Map A. Maps A and B 010_MP3_003.PDF Have student give the locations of the listed places in Map A. Locations 010_EX3_003.PDF Practice Exercises A through F Locations 010_TG3_003.PDF This Unit focuses on spatial relations, street locations and the names of common places of business, such as a bank, restaurant, and post office. This Unit is extended and followed up in Module 5, where the focus is on giving directions. In the City Locations lesson, students click on various locations in DynEd City and learn the names of places of business and how to describe the location of each in terms of street names, intersections, and relative location. In the City Quiz, the students hear a location described and they are then supposed to click on the correct spot to show their comprehension. Each quiz provides 15 locations to find. In the Spatial Relations lesson, students study the spatial relations between geometrical shapes, letters, and stamps. The focus is on words such as under, near, on, on the right, inside, outside and around. Session 2 Review Study Records. Check Study Path and warm-up: "How are you today?" Stress importance of review. Review Study Score. Provide coaching information. Improve Study Score. Practice recording key sentences to improve fluency and pronunciation. Review Activity: Location phrases Listen and repeat the phrases. Main Activity 1: Places and their function (NDE Locations) Focus on places of business. Main Activity 2: Map practice Have students give locations on the map. Review Activity: Location phrases Repeat these phrases: across the street, on the opposite side of the street, in front of the bank, behind the hotel, one block south, near the intersection, in the middle of the block, just west of the intersection of 1st and 3rd Avenues., near the bus stop, behind the white building. Focus on clear pronunciation. Main Activity 1: Places and their function. Focus on 5 or 6 of these places and have the student explain what they are: parking lot, hospital, hotel, post office, drugstore/chemist, office building, police station, subway entrance/exit, rest room, shopping mall, library, river, bridge, rail station, etc. Example: "A hospital is where people go when they are sick or injured." "You can buy medicines and vitamins at a drugstore." You can also explain what something is and have the student guess what you are describing: "This is where I go to borrow a book" "People go here when they want to buy clothing." Main Activity 2: Map practice: Giving location. Use the Maps (see Worksheets) and have the student give you the location of the listed places in Map B. Maps A and B 010_MP3_003.PDF Have student give the locations of the listed places in Map A. Locations 010_EX3_003.PDF Practice Exercises A through F Locations 010_TG3_003.PDF This Unit focuses on spatial relations, street locations and the names of common places of business, such as a bank, restaurant, and post office. This Unit is extended and followed up in Module 5, where the focus is on giving directions. In the City Locations lesson, students click on various locations in DynEd City and learn the names of places of business and how to describe the location of each in terms of street names, intersections, and relative location. In the City Quiz, the students hear a location described and they are then supposed to click on the correct spot to show their comprehension. Each quiz provides 15 locations to find. In the Spatial Relations lesson, students study the spatial relations between geometrical shapes, letters, and stamps. The focus is on words such as under, near, on, on the right, inside, outside and around. Session 3 Review Study Records. Check Study Path and warm-up: "How are you today?" Stress importance of review. Review Study Score. Provide coaching information. Practice recording key sentences to improve fluency and pronunciation. Review Activity: Dictation and Discussion Favorite places in Tokyo. Main Activity 1: Shapes Focus on places of geometric shapes and giving descriptions. Main Activity 2: Location practice Have students give locations on the map. Review Activity: Dictation: Favorite places in Tokyo Dictation: (1) One of my favorite hotels is in Tokyo. (2) It's about a five minute walk from Shinjuku station. (3) Across the street from the hotel is a convenience store. (4) It stays open all night. (5) You can buy food, drinks, and magazines there. (6) Next door is an Italian restaurant, but it closes early. Check for accuracy and then have the student summarize the dictation. Then have student give the location of one of their favorite places to stay when they travel. What makes it nice for them? Why do they like it? Main Activity 1: Shapes and relationships Describe 4 geometric shapes and have the student guess what they are or arrange them: (1) "It has 3 equal sides, and the angles between the sides are equal." (2) "It has 4 sides, 2 vertical and 2 horizontal." "There are three figures in a line: 2 squares and a triangle. The triangle is between the 2 squares." Go over terms like: perpendicular, intersect, parallel, right angle, center, radius, diameter, etc. Main Activity 2: Location practice: My neighborhood Have the student give a description of his/her neighborhood, the area they go shopping, or their favorite part of town. Have them describe what type of shops and services exist and where they are in relation to each other. Remind them to use the forms 'there is' and 'there are' (e.g. there's a park near the river) Maps A and B 010_MP3_003.PDF Review the locations of some of the listed places in Maps A & B. Locations 010_EX3_003.PDF Practice Exercises A through F Locations 010_TG3_003.PDF This Unit focuses on spatial relations, street locations and the names of common places of business, such as a bank, restaurant, and post office. This Unit is extended and followed up in Module 5, where the focus is on giving directions. In the City Locations lesson, students click on various locations in DynEd City and learn the names of places of business and how to describe the location of each in terms of street names, intersections, and relative location. In the City Quiz, the students hear a location described and they are then supposed to click on the correct spot to show their comprehension. Each quiz provides 15 locations to find. In the Spatial Relations lesson, students study the spatial relations between geometrical shapes, letters, and stamps. The focus is on words such as under, near, on, on the right, inside, outside and around.