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Vamos a hacer un
viaje!
Machen wir eine Reise!
Voyageons!
Grade: 9-12
Subject: Spanish, German or French
Curricular Goal: To plan a trip to a city
where Spanish, German or French is spoken as the primary language.
Introduction:
This project will enable you to travel to a city
that you have always wanted to travel to without paying for it! Use your skills to
prepare a well thought out vacation documenting every step of your journey and report on
it while incorporating the past tenses. Include photos, text, graphics and anything
else you think it exciting.
Task:
You will receive a passport from your teacher
which you must keep until the end of the project and it must be included in your final
draft. This passport will eventually contain actual photos (that you will provide)
of you and your partner, a date of departure and a destination. Your destination is
up to you! Choose a city and use as many resources as possible to locate current
information that would help you plan a trip there. This project can be presented in
various forms. These include: typed (in a 3 ring binder), slide presentation,
PowerPoint presentation, movie, or any other form as long as it is cleared with your
teacher before you begin.
Process:
Begin the project with doing a general search of
your city of choice via books, magazines, travel guides, the internet or any other avenue
you can find. Gather information about the city, save, copy, highlight, bookmark or
somehow remember where the information was found. Compile your information and
report on your city. The following criteria should be included un your project.
1. the name
2. the type of currency
used there (exchange rates available)
3. the size
4. the location
5. the population
6. the airline you will
take
7. the price of the
airline ticket
8. the name of the
hotel where you will be staying
9. the accommodations
and price of the hotel room
10. major attractions,
monuments
11. name of the airport
12. public
transportation availability/map of the city
13. typical food
14. dining customs
(do's and dont's in a restaurant)
15. shopping hours
16. evening
entertainment (tipping, what to see, what to do)
17. weather (what to
pack)
18. documentation
needed (passport, travelers checks, identification)
19. what to buy (for
your teacher)
20. important phrases
(how to go to the bank, the bathroom, the bus stop,etc.)/What not to say
21. flag
22. money
Resources:
German
Links
Spanish Links
Austrian Information Service
Europe Online
French Links
French Culture
Evaluation:
You will be graded on grammar usage, creativity, overall
presentation, and content.
Content (50 pts.)
Grammar (20 pts.)
Creativity (15 pts.)
Level of Difficulty (10
pts.)
Bibliography (5 pts.)
Conclusion:
At the conclusion of your project you will have gained a better
understanding of many aspects of foreign travel and culture.
Authors: (LZHS Foreign Language Department)
Created: (11/1/99)