LESSON NOTES

Survival Phrases S1 #31

Directions in English

CONTENTS
2 English
2 Vocabulary
2 Sample Sentences
3 Grammar
3 Cultural Insight

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1. - Go straight

2. - Turn right

3. - Turn right at the traffic light.

4. - It's on the right side.

VOCABULARY

V oc abular y English C lass

to go to move or travel to verb

in a straight manner; without

straight bending or turning adverb

to turn to rotate or revolve verb

right opposite of left noun

left opposite of right adjective

red and yellow and green

traffic light electric light used to control noun
traffic

SAMPLE SENTENCES

Let's go to the movies. He told me to drive straight—that I

shouldn't make any turns.

He told me to drive straight—that I Turn at the corner.

shouldn't make any turns.

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I'm having some pain in my right foot. I write with my left hand.

I stopped at the traffic light.

GRAMMAR

In this lesson, we'll introduce you to directions that will help you find the place you are looking
for. Previously we introduced, is there a

near here? But while we can now ask, we

haven't addressed understanding the answer. In this lesson, we're going to work on
understanding what someone tells us. Today, we'll go over basic directions. First, we have go
straight.

Go straight is a command, but when giving directions it's normal to use even to people you
don't know. First, we have go, which means, (you) go and the word straight, follows.

Let's look at the next expression to help us turn. Let's cover turn right. The first word turn is the
verb in command form. We follow this with right the direction.

Now let's work on turn left. Same verb, turn different direction left. Let's try now with turn right
at the traffic light.

After turn right which we have just seen, you have at the traffic light. First you have turn right
which is what we just learned. Then we have the preposition at which is followed by the traffic
light.

If you want to say which side the building is on, then say it's on the right. It's indicates the
thing or location you're looking for. On is the preposition, and the right side is the side it's on.

If it's on the other side, then you would say, it's on the left side.

CULTURAL INSIGHT

Quick tip 1

Knowing your directions is very useful. You can also buy a map of course. These days
however, many travelers may have phones which tell you your location with Internet
connection. The easiest way is probably to ask somebody who might know.

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Quick tip 2

Here are a few extra words that will help you:

"North"

"East"

"South"

"West"

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