Help me make students understand

down the road past the pharmacy

or turn the corner past the pharmacy

Go take a walk with them and then explain with an example? 😬

You got this one!

If you go to Bristol, They'll ask you, "Where's that to, then?" 😄

I need to understand them first before I help you 🥔🥹

I am mostly fluent, but I will admit, when I try to describe directions, I start saying weird stuff.. I think my inner self knows I am clumsy already and bad with directions so I get anxious and my language goes bad lol and I am generally bad with prepositions (even if deep down I know the correct one) probably in all languages including my native language 🥔🥹

Can you be potato teacher? 🥔🥹

"Down the street" - just on the same street if you start from the pharmacy, probably not that far.
"around the corner from" - nearby, you can find it by going around the street corner starting from the pharmacy.

Got me sitting here questioning whether I even know English anymore

Ima assume it's because there's no direct translation in farsi that makes sense? Would "down" translate as underneath the pharmacy to them? (I'm just throwing shots in the dark and guessing based on rules of other languages I know lol) I guess I'd use graphics and imagery to show the differences in directions.

Use a large whiteboard or large flip pad on a stand and draw a simple diagram showing the difference.

Problem solved.

This place doesn’t exist and I’m already lost

Visual cues would probably help, draw a lil house with a pill for a signboard on top being down the street of a location, and another next to the corner of a location…

Up the street/down the street is pretty vague

They need to not take it in a literal sense, just a figure of speech

Sometimes we say "up the street" too so the direction is kinda irrelevant. Just remember that both "down" and "up" happen to be along the same direction as the street, running parralel to it. So it's like saying "along the street".

"Around the corner" is pretty literal because you're turning 90 degrees.

If that doesn’t help, tell them that they're stupid.

Sorry our language is too stupid

Down the street is a metaphor kind of. It's like if you turn the street vertical and you're at the top. So it goes "down" from there.

The corner you genuinely circle around so idk that one makes more sense to me you're on your own there