Lost in the City
ESL Lesson PlansLost in the City

Lost in the City

How do you ask for help when you’re lost in a new city? This engaging A2 ESL lesson for teens focuses on giving and asking for directions through a practical dialogue, vocabulary tasks, and role-play activities. Students build confidence using everyday phrases, practise question forms, and learn useful travel language. Includes reading, gap-fill, and speaking exercises to develop real-life communication skills in a fun and interactive way.

Skills

  • Can give simple directions on how to get from X to Y, using basic expressions such as “turn right” and “go straight”, along with sequential connectors such as “first”, “then” and “next”
Online Interactive
Based on CEFR
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1

Discuss the questions.

1
How do you find your way in a new place?
2
Who do you ask for directions when you are lost?
3
Have you ever got lost in a new city? What happened?
2

Read the dialogue and mark the statements as 'True' or 'False'. Practice reading the conversation in pairs.

3

Put the words in the correct order to make questions.

4

Fill in the blanks.

5

Work in pairs. Act out the situations below. Then change roles.