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Aquarium Centennial Olympic Park World of The Coca-Cola

The document provides listening practice exercises for giving directions. It includes a preparation exercise where the listener writes direction words on a map. Then it provides a conversation where a guide gives directions from a visitor center to an aquarium, mentioning other nearby places like Centennial Olympic Park and the World of Coca-Cola along the way. The directions involve turning onto specific streets and passing landmarks. It concludes by asking what to do if lost in a town or city.

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Aquarium Centennial Olympic Park World of The Coca-Cola

The document provides listening practice exercises for giving directions. It includes a preparation exercise where the listener writes direction words on a map. Then it provides a conversation where a guide gives directions from a visitor center to an aquarium, mentioning other nearby places like Centennial Olympic Park and the World of Coca-Cola along the way. The directions involve turning onto specific streets and passing landmarks. It concludes by asking what to do if lost in a town or city.

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3. Listen to a conversation at the visitor center.

What the places on the map do


they talk about?
Aquarium
Centennial Olympic Park
World of the Coca-Cola
4. Look at the expressions for giving directions. Complete the conversation at the
visitor center. Then listen again and check.
T: Hello. We´d like to go to the aquarium. Is it near here?
G: It´s about fifteen minutes away, but you go past some interesting places on the
way. So look at this map. Go straight up Decatur Street and then up Marietta
Street. Go across Spring Street and take the fist street on the right. Centennial
Olympic Park is on the corner. It´s very nice. Go past the park and turn left. On the
right you can see the Worlds of Coca – Cola.
T: Oh, that sounds interesting.
G: Yes, its is. Go past it and the aquarium is on your right.
T: Great. Thanks a lot.
Listening skills practice: Giving directions – exercises
Do the preparation exercise first. Then look at the map and listen to the directions while you do the exercises.

Preparation
Do this exercise before you listen. Write the correct word in the boxes below the picture.

take the second


turn left roundabout next to go past
left

take the second turn right opposite traffic lights go


straight on
right

roundabout take the second right next to turn right Go past

take the second left traffic lights Go straight on opposite turn left

1. Check your understanding: gap fill


Do this exercise while you listen.
A. The speaker gives directions to the post office

B. The speaker gives directions to the underground station

C. The speaker gives directions to the cinema

D. The speaker gives directions to the bus station


2. Check your understanding: gap fill
Do this exercise while you listen. Complete the gaps with a word from the box.
take past on

At second
straight
Go

1. Go straight on.

2. Go past the traffic lights.

3. It’s the building next to the library on the left.

4. At the roundabout turn left.

5. Then take the first left on to Green Street.

6. Go past the traffic lights and take the second right on to King’s Road.

What do you do when you get lost in a town or city?

Vocabulary Box Write any new words you have learnt in this lesson.

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