You and your friends have decided to meet at your house to celebrate the end of the examinations.Write out the directions you will give your friends to travel from the school to the house. In your response you must include some distances, turns and landmarks. Do not include sketches or maps
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What are some of the features of directions?
You use the imperative (or command) form of the verb, as if you are ordering someone to do something: for example: Go left; turn right; walk one hundred metres.
You write/speak as briefly and accurately and simply as possible, but take care that no step is left out. The audience must not be confused or distracted by fancy words or irrelevant description.
Directions are presented chronologically. That is, one after the other in the order of the parts of the journey. Imagine the route unfolding. Then describe it each step in logical, chronological order, without leaving something important out. It is confusing for the listener if you interrupt yourself, as in this example: “Oh wait, I forgot that there is a Y junction before that.”
They include the location and/or name or address of the starting point and of the destination.
Give approximate distances when appropriate (or exact ones if possible). For example, “… about ten metres later …” or “Drive 25 kilometres.”
Where possible give useful hints such as how many streets to cross until the destination street or a turn is arrived at.
Use landmarks (things that are easy to notice) such as koppies, buildings, trees, unusual objects, well-known shops, colours of fences. Insert them into the directions as in, “When you get to the Chicken Licken on the right, you are almost there.”
Accurately use specific words of direction and location, such as: at the intersection/T-junction/Y-junction/stop street, turn right/left, head north, go half way across the park, keeping going straight, follow the curve until…
Write logically and very concisely. The Grade 12 examination memos currently say that full sentences are not needed and you can use point form. However, to be safe use short sentences such as, “Turn right at the intersection. Walk about one hundred metres.”
This is a shorter transactional text so depending on your grade you will use between 50 – 90 words. Check the word length required.
In exams at FET and senior phase you are usually marked out of 20, like this, for directions: Content, planning and format (12 marks); Language, style and editing (8 marks). These categories tell you what you need to think about, and for example, that you must show you have planned and edited properly, using process writing.
Note that the current FET and Senior Phase curriculum and examination questions say that, “No marks are awarded for sketches or maps.” Therefore only include these if they are specifically asked for by your exam question.
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you and your friend have decided to meet at your house to celebrate the term 1 results.weitw out the direction you will give to travel from clinic to the house