🧑🤝🧑 Phase 3 - Investigation
🧑🤝🧑 Challenge
⏱ 5 minutes
Task 6 - Group C: Guide a New Visitor
Your visitor wants to reach the library from the main entrance. A long sentence, an unfamiliar room name, or an unexplained gesture can make an accurate route difficult to follow.
Step 1 - Complete all three communication challenges
The Translators - simplify for a beginner
Rewrite this message so it's easy to understand for someone still learning English. Hint: "proceed" → "go straight", "continue beyond" → "go past".
"From the main entrance, facing into the school, proceed to the junction, turn right and continue beyond the office to the library at the end."
The Communicators - build the route with no words
Tap icons in order to show: start at the entrance → go straight → turn right → past the office → arrive at the library.
Tap icons below, in order…
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The Cultural Explorers - spot the misunderstanding
Tap 3 scenarios that could make your directions hard to follow. Each reveals a solution.
📍 The visitor isn't told where to start
Solution: name the MAIN ENTRANCE
🧭 The visitor isn't told which way they're facing
Solution: say "face into the school"
✛ "Turn right" with no landmark for where
Solution: name the JUNCTION
🚪 Mistaking "past" for "into"
Solution: say "continue beyond the office door"
👋 Pointing with no words at all
Solution: add words to the gesture
🏷️ Using an unexplained local nickname for a room
Solution: use the displayed room name
🔤 Assuming every visitor understands English room labels
Solution: explain or translate a label when asked
🤐 Assuming silence means they understood
Solution: invite the visitor to repeat the next step
Step 2 - Quick check
A. Go to our usual book place.
B. Follow my hand; no words are needed.
C. You should already know the corridor.
D. Start at the main entrance, facing into the school; go straight to the junction.
"A helpful guide makes the next step understandable. Which part can you do in your own voice?"
What happens in Task 6
A 5-minute Phase 3 - Investigation activity as "Group C - The Visitor Guides." Students complete three linked challenges - simplifying a formal message, building a wordless visual route, and flagging cultural misunderstandings - then answer a formative check.
🎯 Learning objectives
Recognise that a helpful direction names the start, gives steps in order, and uses a landmark. Simple words, visual symbols and cultural awareness work together to help an unfamiliar visitor.
♿ SEN Adaptations
- Alternative response formats: students may draw, record audio, or point to symbols instead of typing
- Speech-to-text available for all text fields in this activity
- Peer support: pairs may work through each challenge together
🖨️ No-Tech Format
- Group A: simplify a printed message using scissors, paper and markers
- Group B: draw symbols on large paper to communicate the route without words
- Group C: printed scenario cards, solutions written on sticky notes