Given a map like the following:
Now your friend is standing at 1 end of the street 1 & he want to go to school.
How can you elegantly show him the direction?
Here is what I suggest but it is a bit cumbersome.
-Go Straight -And Go past the corner between Street 1 & 2 -Keep going straight -Turn left into the street 3 -Go straight -Turn right into the Street 4 -Go straight & turn left to street 5 -Go straight until you can see the school
This may not be the elegance you are looking for, but I have found that the fewer words one uses to give directions, the more likely the recipient is to actually remember.
There are any number of ways of giving directions, but if I were in this situation, I'd say something like:
Keep going straight on Street 1 until you get to Street 3.
Turn left on Street 3.
Street 3 makes a sharp right turn and becomes Street 4.
Take the first left from Street 4 onto Street 5; the school will be on your right.
I might also give directions using cardinal directions. If the person I was giving directions to seemed to understand them clearly, I would probably shorten the directions a bit as well:
Head south on Street 1, then turn east on Street 3.
Take Street 3 until it runs into Street 4, headed south.
Turn east onto Street 5; the school is on the south side of the road.
Note that "head" is a verb here, it means to travel in the direction that follows. Also when giving directions, we might say "take a {direction or street}" instead of "turn {direction} or go {on a street}."
It never really occurred to me before, but there is a whole set of idioms and slang that go along with direction-giving. I have to think it's going to vary from region to region, so for your information, I'm from the US Midwest.
