Where Are You Going?
This movement prepositions ESL lesson teaches across, through, over, under and around in action-based contexts. Students follow physical commands, describe journeys on a map and build sentences about how characters move. They write an action route and narrate a partner through a classroom obstacle course.
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Lesson format
2 × 45 minutes
Level
Pre-Intermediate
Age group
Ages 10–13
Main focus
Speaking first
What students will learn
Lesson flow
Students follow 'Jump over the line!' commands, learn movement prepositions like across and through, and build sentences such as 'The boy ran through the tunnel.' The second lesson describes a character's journey across a map, writes an action route for an invented character, and narrates an obstacle-course roleplay as a partner moves through the classroom.
Target language
- • Prepositions of movement (into, out of, across, past)
- • 'He runs across the street'
- • Sentence building: subject + verb + preposition
- • Direction vocabulary
Key vocabulary
- straight on
- turn left
- turn right
- crossroads
- roundabout
- traffic lights
- map
- lost
- destination
- opposite
Speaking questions students answer
- • What did the cat do?
- • Did it go into the box?
- • Which preposition?
- • Where did he go?
- • Was it over or across?
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Why this lesson works
The lesson follows a clear progression: Follow movement commands with prepositions, describe a character's journey using prepositions, write an action route and narrate an obstacle-course roleplay. Teachers can open the materials and start immediately, while students move from supported vocabulary practice to purposeful spoken English.