LESSON PLAN
Universidad Católica de el Salvador
Teachers: Jacquelinne Vanessa Jimenez and Xavier Ronald Bautista Mendez
Audience: Teenagers
Topic: famous touristic places
Time 3 hours
INTERNET TOOLS USED: Facebook.com, Voxopop, Wordl, e-mail, youthink.com, my brainshark.com, you tube.com, google.com, blog, mind42.com.
OBJECTIVE: SWBAT use different adjectives to describe wonderful touristic places around by developing different activities.
WARM UP!
Directions: Go to the page of our subject on Facebook and ask students to give their impressions when they read the title “Famous Touristic Places.” The entire group must be set into a discussion.
PRESENTATION
Pre-activity
Directions: have students think about some touristic places we have in our country and around the world.
What do you think this video will be about?
During activity
Directions: Play the video and ask students to write down the most important details.
Post activity
Directions: Tell students to go to the blog and write an entry about some of the basic things they saw and listened in the video and they also have to answer the following questions. This part is important for the very controlled practice.
Questions:
-Which is the name of the offered city?
-What is the most beautiful place for you?
-Do the places have something in common?
-Would you like to visit any of them?
-Do you have family members living in those places?
VERY CONTROLLED ACTIVITIES
1-Quiz
2-Matching activity
Directions: Go to this link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51umRiOZLe4 and based on the video about “Top 10 Travel Attractions, San Francisco (California),” give students the following matching activity. They have to develop the activity in Microsoft Word and send it to your e-mail account.
1-De Young Museum a) offers excellent city views
2-In the Fisherman’s Wharf b) is an icon on San Francisco
3-The Golden Gate Park c) tourists can enjoy the architecture of local houses
4-The Alcatraz Island d) is fascinated place to drive
5-Cable Cars e) is a place you will remember for a long time.
6-In the Architectural Heritage f) has beautiful landscapes
7-The Palace of Fine Arts g) It is inside the Golden Gate Park
8-The Coit Tower h) you can see Sea Lions
9-The Lombard Street i) used to have a prison
10-The Golden Gate Bridge j) was built in 1950
3- Wordl
Directions: Go to these links and rearrange the words to form logical sentences. The answers must be sent to the e-mails given before.
SEMI-CONTROLLED ACTIVITIES
Extended sentences
1-Directions: The teacher uploads some words on the blog, which must be used by students to form complete and logical sentences.
1- San Francisco has…
2- Beaches are….
3- In London…
4- Some Touristic Places…
5- My last vacation…
6- People from….
7- Going to Salvadorian restaurants
8- New York is…
2- Reading and comprehension
Go to the following link and develop the activities:
3- Travel culture:
Directions: go to your e-mail and there you will find a file called "travel culture". Develop the activities and send it back
FREE ACTIVITIES
1-Brainshark
Travel Agency seller
Directions: Tell the students to think they are sellers of a travel agency, and they have to offer a touristic place to convince the audience that it is the best place to visit on vacations. Students have to create attractive slides with pictures of the place. Then, they must go to www.brainshark.com to record their voice to explain their presentations.
After doing that, students have to post the link on face book in the page of the subject.
2- Blog
Directions: Students have to go to the page of the subject on Facebook to watch someone’s power point presentation; then, they must go to their blog and comment about that presentation. They can include what they think about that touristic place and if they would like to visit that place.
3- Mind 42
Directions: Ss must go to mind42 and participate on the mind map “Interesting places to visit.” They can comment the mind map and upload pictures and links to support their ideas.
Note: the teacher must send the invitation to the students’ e-mail, and they have to accept it to participate in this activity
4- Collage
Directions: Ss have to create a collage with the pictures of the places they would like to visit. They must add a short description of the collage and upload it on Facebook. Students can use whatever program to do this collage, example: Microsoft Word, Picasa 3, Microsoft Power Point, Publisher, etc.
WRAP UP
Directions: send this crossword to each student in an e-mail and ask them to send it back solved.
Read the statement down and complete the crossword about useful vocabulary for tourists.
ACROSS
3. A person who prepares food for eating.
4. A large tract of rural land kept in its natural state and usually reserved for the enjoyment and recreation of visitors.
6. One who travels for pleasure.
7. A place where meals are served to the public.
8. The motion of an object in or through a medium, especially through the earth's atmosphere or through space.
10. An establishment that provides lodging and usually meals and other services for travelers and other paying guests.
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DOWN
1. One who serves at a table, as in a restaurant.
2. To sail or travel about, as for pleasure or reconnaissance.
5. A steep descent of water from a height; a cascade.
9. One who shows the way by leading, directing, or advising.
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HOMEWORK
Directions: Go to this link on Voxopop http://www.voxopop.com/group/1d41a847-15cb-4e18-bc65-35b65a58bfbc and follow the talk group named Famous Touristic Places. Students must give their point of view about the studied topic, and about how they felt when recording their voices in the Power Point Presentation and how was the experience with the collage. They can say what places they would like to visit, etc.
