Asking for Directions - Role Play
Ask for directions, clarify a route and find an alternative when a path is closed. A B1–B2 speaking lesson with useful phrases, two extended model conversations and three paired role-play scenarios involving choices, clarification and negotiation.
What’s in the worksheet?
- Useful phrases for both speakers
- Two extended model conversations
- Three paired role-play scenarios
- Explain choices and negotiate a solution
Give directions that account for mobility, luggage, deadlines and similar destination names.
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A simple way to teach it
Before the lesson
Use both pages. Read the two model conversations before distributing the paired role cards; partners should see only their own instructions.
- Compare the interview route and gallery entrance models; identify useful landmarks and checks of the destination.
- Practise the wheelchair route, council-office deadline and similarly named hotels; include waiting time when comparing transport.
- Ask the traveller to repeat the route and relevant entrance, not just say they understand.
Support and extension
Sketch an optional map from the fictional directions. Support with a landmark sequence; extend by explaining why the shortest-looking route is unsuitable. The PDF supplies route descriptions, not a real navigation map.
Suggested approach. Adjust the pace and number of questions to suit your class.
