APIEVocabulary: A School Open Day
A school open day
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🏫 A School Open Day
Welcome to our school! Learn 10 key words to find your way and talk about school places.
💡 How to use this lesson
For Teachers
• Direct students to review the 10 words and memory tips first.
• Set a 20-minute timer and check answers together using the model examples.
For Learners
• Read the word table carefully and try the memory tips.
• Complete all practice items and record your voice in the shadowing task.
Word table
Study these 10 words before you start the practice tasks.
📍 Places in school
| Word | Meaning | Common collocations | Example sentence | Memory tip |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 🔊 lab | a room for science work | science lab, school lab | The lab is across the hall. | Think of "LABoratory" |
| 🔊 staffroom | a room for teachers to relax and work | main staffroom, in the staffroom | The teachers meet in the staffroom. | STAFF + ROOM |
| 🔊 restroom | a room with toilets and sinks | clean restroom, student restroom | Where is the clean restroom? | REST + ROOM |
| 🔊 flagpole | a tall pole for a flag | school flagpole, high flagpole | The flag is on the flagpole. | FLAG + POLE |
👁️ Things to see
| Word | Meaning | Common collocations | Example sentence | Memory tip |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 🔊 headteacher | the leader of the school | ask the headteacher, meet the headteacher | Meet the headteacher now. | HEAD (leader) + TEACHER |
| 🔊 whiteboard | a white board for writing | clean whiteboard, write on the whiteboard | Look at the whiteboard. | WHITE + BOARD |
| 🔊 cabinet | a box with doors to store things | big cabinet, wooden cabinet | Put your school bags inside the cabinet. | A cabinet is like a little cabin for your things. |
🗺️ Finding the way
| Word | Meaning | Common collocations | Example sentence | Memory tip |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 🔊 ahead | straight in front of you | walk ahead, straight ahead | Walk ahead to the lab. | Your head goes first: ahead. |
| 🔊 across | on the other side | across the hall, walk across | The gym is across the hall. | A cross: go from one side to the other. |
| 🔊 along | following a path or line | walk along, along this hall | Walk along this hall. | Think of a long line: you walk along it. |
Practice
Complete these 16 items to test your vocabulary.
🧩 Part 1: Collocation Matrix (Items 1–4)
Match the first word on the left to the correct target word that naturally goes with it.
Item 1: Which word goes with "science"?
Item 2: Which word goes with "high"?
Item 3: Which word goes with "ask the"?
Item 4: Which word goes with "walk"?
✏️ Part 2: Gap-fill (Items 5–8)
Fill in each blank with the correct word from the bank.
Item 5: The teachers have lunch in the ____.
Item 6: I wash my hands in the clean ____.
Item 7: The main hall is ____ of you.
Item 8: The gym is ____ from the main office.
🎯 Part 3: Choose the word (Items 9–12)
Choose the word that fits the meaning of the sentence.
Item 9: The teacher writes the lesson on the ___.
Item 10: Put your school bags inside the wooden ___.
Item 11: The flag hangs high on the tall ___.
Item 12: Students do science projects in the new ___.
🧩 Part 4: Sentence-building (Items 13–16)
Put the given words in the right order to make a full sentence.
Item 13: Order these words: [ the / is / across / The / hall / staffroom ]
____ (Type your sentence here...)Item 14: Order these words: [ straight / ahead / cabinet / is / The ]
____ (Type your sentence here...)Item 15: Order these words: [ along / Walk / hall / this ]
____ (Type your sentence here...)Item 16: Order these words: [ headteacher / the / Meet / now ]
____ (Type your sentence here...)Shadowing
Listen to the speaker audio, then record your voice for each item.
science lab
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____school flagpole
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____clean restroom
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____big cabinet
[Bài tập luyện nói]
____Walk ahead to the lab.
[Bài tập luyện nói]
____The staffroom is across the hall.
[Bài tập luyện nói]
____Look at the whiteboard.
[Bài tập luyện nói]
____Walk along this hall.
[Bài tập luyện nói]
____Meet the headteacher now.
[Bài tập luyện nói]
____The cabinet is over there.
[Bài tập luyện nói]
____headteacher
[Bài tập luyện nói]
____staffroom
[Bài tập luyện nói]
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