Step 1: Preparation 

Print out the worksheets with the grids below. 

Optionally: Use tape to make a grid on the classroom floor or chalk to draw a grid on the floor in the school yard. 

Step 2: Introduction 

Discuss with the students how to give directions in [the minority language]. Some might already know simple phrases, collect them and match them to the arrows below. Have the students repeat the directions in [the minority language] out loud. 

Step 3: Preparing the routes 

Hand out the worksheets below with the grids to the students. Each pupil can now secretly draw a route through the first grid on the worksheet. Everyone should start in the upper left corner. The students should only go straight ahead, left or right, never diagonally. Example: 

Step 4: Preparing the routes 

Ask the students to form pairs. Using the directions in [the minority language], one student guides the other through the second, still empty grid on the lower half of the worksheet. The listening student uses a pencil to draw the route. Then the pupils change roles. 

Alternatively: The class goes to the grid on the classroom/school court floor. One student guides another student with the directions in [the minority language] walking through the grid. The other pupils can help if something goes wrong. 

Step 5: Closing 

The teacher asks: 

Were there any difficulties in the task? What did help with understanding each other’s directions? Ask pupils about their opinion.