I thought that my students would enjoy this lesson because they always associate Americans with the city of Los Angeles.  In the lesson I presented them with the powerpoint slideshow, illustrating different tourist destinations in Los Angeles. After explaining the tourist destination I showed them the map of where the tourist site was located.  Using cardinal directions I would explain for example: that it is North of highway 15 and east of highway 101 near bakerstown.   I let the students know before the presentation that they should pay close attention to each location and what tourists travel there to see.  Then afterwards I handed out a printed copy of the map I used in the powerpoint to each student, on the maps I had circled one star indicating where that student was located in Los Angeles.  They were instructed to get up and move around the room and find at least one person that was at each location.  After finding that person they should ask them what they are doing there, the expected response is what they learned most tourists do at that location.  Then they were supposed to ask where it is located on the map, and wait for a response.  Finally the students are supposed to decide on a meeting place somewhere on the map and then give directions to each other for getting there. 

I found that most of the classes enjoyed this activity, some of the lower level classes had a hard time understanding the slideshow.  I later just focused on saying keywords for each destination during the slideshow instead of reading the slide verbatim. 

I really like this lesson - great ppt!! I want to try it....thanks

Yeah I printed the maps in colour.

I had a similar problem with the map being confusing as it takes them along time to workout the romanization of the Korean names. So what I did was maximize a small part of the map and printed it in colour, making sure there was enough variation on the map to make interesting

I did a very similar thing with my students only I used Busan's subway map. It only has 3 lines so color isn't as much of an issue and its a lot simpler. Its big enough that you can still easily teach the same vocab without the problems of having to choose a cluster of Seoul's.

You are awesome.  I was just thinking that I wanted to do a lesson on directions.  Now I can do my coworker's home for his graduate class and make it out to Itaewon tonight.

Happy St. P day!

Thanks for sharing this, you've obviously put in a lot of time and effort into this lesson plan.  Will feed back if I use it!

Hey :) This looks great. You have put alot of work in to it !! I teach at a boys high school aswell so looking forward to using this lesson and see how it goes :) Thanks alot !!

Good stuff,  look forward to using it

It's simple and has pictures my students would like. great job! I might use it with my lower levels :)