Unit 2: Your environment

Workplace Skills

• Requests and gives directions inside a building
• Offers and gives assistance
• Gives directions to a place

Life Skills

• Demonstrates elevator etiquette
• Gives directions for transportation
• Uses maps and building directori

Civics Concepts

• Appropriate punctuality for social invitations

Social Language

How to:

• extend and accept invitations
• ask for directions
• tell and ask others for directions
• make plans to meet

Grammar

• Imperatives for directions, warnings, requests, and suggestions
• Indirect commands

SCANS Competencies

• Information: Acquires and evaluates data related to locations
• Interpersonal: Negotiates and plans with culturally diverse companions

SCANS Foundation Skills

Listening

Understands:

• requests for assistance
• invitations
• work-related directions

Speaking

• Instructs co-workers
• Relates a personal experience

Reading Reads:

• maps, plans, and diagrams
• advice about social behavior
• handwritten directions

Writing

• Writes directions
• Charts activities and locations
• Writes an informal note
• Writes a composition

Thinking

• Interprets maps
• Analyzes problems depicted in picture
• Compares and contrasts map resources

Personal Qualities

• Demonstrates individual responsibility by assisting others
• Demonstrates sociability