Intro
1. Learn Vocabulary - Learn some new vocabulary before you start the lesson.
2. Read and Prepare - Read the introduction and prepare to hear the audio.
When you were a kid, did you play hide and seek? The challenge of finding someone who is hidden can be a lot of fun. Some children enjoy thinking of a hiding place they believe that no one will look. Others like the excitement of searching and then finding their friends in an unusual location.
Geocaching is a game for adults that uses a GPS device and specific coordinates to find something that’s been hidden out in the world. The object that’s hidden isn’t that important. Finding the location is what matters. Usually the geocaching receptacle is not in a place where it can be stumbled upon by chance. You really have to search for it!
Neither Gary nor Julie have tried geocaching, but they’re both interested in the game. Read on in today’s English lesson.
Dialog
1. Listen and Read - Listen to the audio and read the dialog at the same time.
2. Study - Read the dialog again to see how the vocab words are used.
Gary: Do you like games, Julie?
Julie: I love games.
Gary: Do you like in person, real life, outside of your home type games?
Julie: Are you talking about geocaching?
Gary: You totally got it! Yes. It’s such a cool game.
Julie: I’ve never done it, but I have stumbled upon several of them when I’ve been out on hikes.
Gary: Really?
Julie: Yeah.
Gary: Did you have a GPS device, or the coordinates of a location? Nothing!
Julie: No, it was purely by chance.
Gary: Wow.
Julie: It’s really cool to find them. Is the actual thing that you put the objects in, is that called the geocache? Is there a name for the receptacle that they put stuff in, or is that just “the box?”
Gary: I have to admit I don’t know. I think it’s just “the box” thing.
Julie: OK. What do you do when you find it? You just say, “Yay! I found it.”?
Gary: Honestly, I’ve never done it. I don’t know anyone who ever has. That’s why I was curious if you were interested in games like that, if you had done that.
Julie: Let’s get some people together and try it.
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Discussion
Gary wants to know more about geocaching. He has heard of it, but none of his friends have gone geocaching, and neither has Gary. He seems excited about this game that happens outdoors and uses GPS to find coordinates.
Julie has never gone geocaching either, but she has found some geocaching boxes when hiking. While she seems to like the idea of the game as well, Julie has as many questions as Gary. With so little information, it seems unlikely that the friends can learn how to play on their own.
Have you ever been geocaching? What did you enjoy about it?
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