Unlock 1 – Unit 4 – Listening 2 – Practicing Directions – Quiz
The listening track is about a classroom activity where a teacher helps students practise giving and understanding directions in a shopping centre. The teacher asks several students to describe how to reach different places, such as the cinema, supermarket, toilets, and computer shop, using specific street and path names.
Listen to the audio track and complete the quizzes.
Interactive Listening Activities
Shopping Centre Directions — Complete Listening Practice
Before You Begin
Listen to the audio track in your Listening and Speaking book.
It is in Unlock 1 – Unit 4, Listening Track 4.4.
Activity 1: Discussion Activities
Discuss these questions with your partner or in small groups. Share your ideas and experiences.
🗺️ Using Maps Indoors
- • Why is it easy to get lost in large shopping centres?
- • Which signs or map features help you find exits, lifts, and toilets?
- • How do street names and paths help when giving directions indoors?
- • Share a time you successfully guided someone in a mall.
🧭 Clear Directions
- • What words make directions clear (e.g., turn left, go past, opposite)?
- • Is it better to use landmarks or path names? Why?
- • When should you mention time or distance?
- • Practise a short set of directions with a partner.
🚻 Helpful Facilities
- • Which facilities are most important to find quickly (toilets, stairs, lifts, cinema)?
- • What phrases are polite when asking for help?
- • How can you confirm you understood the directions?
- • What would you add to improve a mall map?
👥 Role-Play Ideas
- • One person asks for a place; the other gives directions using path names.
- • Swap roles and use prepositions like behind, opposite, next to, between.
- • Add a landmark detour and time estimate.
- • Evaluate which directions were clearest and why.
