1. Language Learning
“Compensation Strategies”
Guessing intelligently
Sub unit: Using other clues

2. Unit: Travel
Topic: Places in town
Prathomsuksa 6

3. Compensation Strategies
Helping all levels of students who don’t know an
expression, who fail to hear something clearly and who
are faced with the situation that not clear about the
meaning of the vocabulary to overcome these
knowledge limitations in all four skills.
Guessing intelligently
Generally, guessing is useful for listening and
reading. It helps the students to think about their old
knowledge and try out to answer before they get all
comprehension of the words. It’ll help them get more
understanding in meaning of words

4. Using other clues
Helping the students to get a whole
comprehension of the word, sentence or content
of the situation by using other materials such as
pictures, VDO, audio sound or other media in
stead of using only linguistic. Let them try out to
find the answer or meaning of the words. And
they will get more clearly understanding.

5. Activity 1 (Where are they?)
Reference:
(We applied the method of this activity by using the pictures
and audio sounds to guide the students in order to make them
gain more comprehension and can find the correct words with the
pictures. )

9. bank (n)

10. book store (n)

11. gym (n)

12. hairdresser (n)

13. subway entrance (n)

15. Prepositions of place
Preposition of place is a word
which shows relationships among
other words in the sentence in place
where they are located.
It always goes with a noun or
pronoun. And it is almost always
before the noun or pronoun.

16. Preposition of place Example
at His house is at 48 Grove Road.
in My hometown is in America.
on The book is on the table.
near The coffee shop is near the cinema.
across The gym is across from the bookstore.
under The box is under the tree.
between The shop is between the bank and the park.

18. Excuse me. I’m new in town. Can
you tell me a little about the
neighborhood?

19. Sure. What do you want to know?

20. Well, first of all, I’m looking for a
bookstore. Is there one
around here?

21. Hmm, well the nearest one is on
Forest Drive, across from the bank.

22. Forest Drive?

23. Yeah.The bookstore is between 2nd
and 3rd .But it’s not very good I’m
afraid.

24. Ok.I’ll look anyway. And how about
places to eat? Can you recommend
a good Indian restaurant?

25. There’s one on the corner of 2nd and
Pine Street-the TajMahal .I go there
all the time. It is across from the
subway entrance.

26. On the corner of Second and Pine?
Ok .Got that .What about if I just
want coffee?

27. You could try the coffee shop on Grove
Street, across from the park .It’s also
across from the gym I go to. It has great
coffee and cakes, and the prices are very
good.

28. So, the coffee shop is on Fourth and
Grove-across from the gym?

29. That’s right.

30. How about the hairdresser? I need
to get my hair cut.

31. Try the one on the corner of Grove
and 2nd .It’s ok.

32. Great. And how about a Chinese
restaurant?

33. There’s a great one on
Fourth, next to the gym. But it’s
very small and it’s always
crowded.