Finding your way

Finding your way

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This task is about listening carefully for details.
Look carefully at the map below, and read the questions. You can ask questions before the directions are read out.
Now listen to a set of directions about how to get to the mall while looking at the map.
At the end of the directions you will answer some questions and show the path that is described on the map.

Question 1Change answer

a) What number bus are they to catch? 

Question Change answer

b) Draw a line with arrows to show the route Lana and Taine will take. 
c) On the map circle the theatre they will watch the movie in.
d) Write in the names of Main Street and Central Street in the correct places on the map.

Question 1Change answer

e) What time are they to be collected by their auntie?  p.m.
Task administration: 
This task can be completed by pencil and paper or online.
 
Give students time to look at the map and read through the questions.  Ask if they have any questions about the task before beginning. Students then listen to the instructions as they look at the map.
 
Teacher to read:

Look carefully at the map below, and read the questions. 
Now look at the map while you listen to a set of directions about how to get to the mall. 
At the end of the directions, you will answer some questions and show the path that is described on the map.

Do you have any questions before you listen to the directions?
 

Trip to the Mall

Lana and Taine are staying with their aunt over the holidays.
They have decided to go to the mall to see a movie.

"How do we get to the mall?" asks Lana.

"Listen carefully and I will tell you" replies Auntie.

"Go on the number 24 bus that goes down Central Street and get off by the mall car park opposite the mall.

Use the pedestrian crossing.

Walk through the car park to the main entrance that has two huge pohutukawa trees outside.

Go into the mall and turn right at the information desk.

Go to McDonald's to meet your cousin Sina who wants to join you for the movie.

I want you to do one errand for me before the movie. Go to the candy shop and get a big box of assorted fudge. Then pop down to the Post Shop and mail it to your mother. It's her birthday next week, which you both seem to have forgotten.

The movie is in Theatre 3 and it finishes at 4:40 p.m. I will have the car on Main Street, which is at the theatre end, and I'll be waiting to collect you at 4:45 p.m.

Got that? Good!"

Level:
3
Curriculum info: 
English, Making meaning, Listening
Keywords: 
listening comprehension, instructions, recall
Description of task: 
Students listen to instructions about where to go when visiting the mall, then draw the path to be taken on a map and recall specific information. The assessment focus is on listening, recall, and following instructions.
Answers/responses: 
a) 24
b), c), d)
 
Route correctly drawn on map.
Theatre 3 circled.
Main Street and Central Street correctly located on map.
 
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e) 4:45pm