Chris Teacher
Moving around – How to get from here to there.
Getting from in place to another is really important in your language lab lessons. You need to move to talk to the other members of your class and take part in the activities your teacher will ask you to do. This blog will help you move!
Walk, stroll or creep
The easiest way to move in your English Lessons is to walk. You can do this by using the arrow keys.
Run, jog or sprint
Sometimes your teacher might ask you to move quickly, especially if it is part of a grammar game or communication activity. You can fly, but sometimes it’s just as quick to run. You can run by clicking ‘world’ at the top of the screen and choosing ‘always run’. If you want to run quickly you can tap-tap and then hold the upwards arrow key. You might need to select ‘Advanced>Character> Tap-Tap-Hold to Run’
Jump, hop or leap
To jump, just tap the ‘page up’ button on your keyboard. You use this to get over obstacles quickly. Sometimes your teacher might ask you to jump in the air to show you have finished doing a listening task or a conversation with your partner or group.
Flying through the air
Fly, swoop or wheel
To fly, press and hold the ‘page up’ button. To land, press the ‘page down’ button. It’s hard to fly sometimes; you can easily overshoot where you are going. Your teacher might ask you to fly up to an object and read it, or fly to a location to find out some information.
Vehicles -Drive, ride or pilot.
Park the sentence truck
There are lots of vehicles you can use in language lab. Your teacher might ask to make sentences by driving trucks, or fly through correct answers in a plane. To use a vehicle, right click on it, choose ‘fly’ or ‘drive’ from the circle menu.
Teleport
The easiest way to travel in Language Lab. Click your ‘map’ button so you can see the streets and building around you from an aerial view. Now you can double click with the left mouse button on the place you want to go, you will teleport straight there.
Use the verbs of movement above to answer these questions.
1. Which verb means to fly down quickly?
2. Which verb means walk slowly?
3. Which verb means to jump up and down quickly?
4. Which verb means fly an aeroplane?
5. Which verb means to move using a horse?
6. Which verb means to run really fast?
7. Which verb means walk slowly and secretly?
8. Which verb means to run quite slowly?
It’s summer here in London. When the sun shines it shines brightly. Oxford street is heaving with tourists, which means it’s rising up, as if pushed. There are tourists from almost everywhere in the world here. London is particularly popular with Japanese and Korean tourists. A lot of single, young students come to London to shop, to have fun and to study English. They come to the UK for the summer because they believe in a concept called ‘language immersion.’
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