Grade 8 Activity 3

Know your left from your right.

Instructions: Imagine that your parents has to pick you up at your best friend’s house. They never been there before and they don’t believe in using a GPS or Google Maps.

Write out the directions and draw a map for your parents to take with them when they have to fetch you, using the correct terminology as in this PowerPoint

Keywords and extra information: Distance (e.g. continue on the road for 2km)

Direction: North, South, East and West

Landmarks: e.g. Shell garage at the robot.

At the roundabout (not circle)…

Identify the starting and finishing points.

Use useful prepositions like up, down, across and towards.

Keywords and extra information: Give the directions in logical order.

Use the simple present tense.

Make sure that each step includes one direction.