Step 1:
To start with... let's
negotiate! |
- Find a partner or a small group of classmates. To do so,
you can play a "guessing game" in class: think of one place in your town
or village where you can have fun and spend the afternoon. Ask your classmates to have a
guess, and form a group with the winner or winners!
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Step 2: Use creativity to choose the right task. |
- Decide about the layout of your guide. Agree with your
friends and teacher about what sort of guide you are going to prepare: a 'vanguard
collage', a 'picture mural', a 'visual map', a 'web page', a 'small booklet', a 'leaflet',
etc.
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Step 3:
Let's think of contents... |
- Make a list of documents you are going to include in your
guide. Visit the resources below to find pages of
several towns on the web, and discuss with your partner/s which of the following items you
want in your guide:
- Maps
- Pictures
- List of important monuments
- List of nice parks
- List of facilities (hospital, bank...)
- Information about transports
- Information about currency/prices...
- Summary about the history of the town.
- Summary about traditions
- Summary about weather
- Leisure time activities.
- Advice
- Other...
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Step 4:
Choose a suitable title. |
- Make a draft list of contents with the information you need. Starting
from the items you selected in the previous step, negotiate with your partner/s the list
of documents you need, and show it to your classmates. You can type it and print it with a
suitable title.
- For example: 'Come to visit us!', 'Where we are', 'Discover our world', 'Steps to my town'...
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Step 5:
Find out what people want
to know about your place. |
- Look around and discover what other people want to know about
your village or town. To do so, send a message to several schools all over the word
and ask them to answer a short questionnaire. You can do so by subscribing to an educational project, by visiting a virtual school or directly by
contacting several school
websites.
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Step 6:
Make an index. |
- Share with your classmates what you have discovered about
people's interests. Prepare a mural with the answers you've got, showing what people's
interests are, and hang it on the classroom wall. Brainstorm and decide what useful
information you can include in a guide or a booklet for tourists, and make a complete
index for yours.
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Step 7:
Surf the net for information
gathering |
- Start collecting information for your guide. Use the
Internet to obtain maps, photos and descriptions of the main monuments, timetables,
entrance prizes and further information of all the places you have chosen to be
mentioned in your guide. Don't forget to add a paragraph with information about
"what's going on", with some interesting social events in your town, current
humanitarian or research campaigns, future developments in the area, etc. You can find
some of them by visiting the sites below.
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Step 8:
Go ahead with the results! |
Organise and edit the information you have. Sort
the texst, photos, pictures, maps, lists and any further information you want to offer.
Add a summary in any other foreign language, using Online Dictionaries if
necessary. Publish the first version of the document, and show it to the rest of the class
to get an initial feedback. Complete it and offer your work to other schools around the
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Step 9:
Let's check the process again |
- Evaluate the process and the procedures to improve further tasks. Look at your
classmates' work and evaluate your own work process. Discuss with your partner/s and
classmates about what part has been the most difficult to do, the easiest, about what
tasks should have been done individually and which ones should have been done in
collaboration. Discuss what problems have you come across and how you can solve them next
time.
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Step 10:
Let's improve the results. |
- Evaluate the final product of your work and share your experience with other
students. Analyze your work objectively, and make suggest to improve the results. To
do so, write a conclusion with your personal opinion about the task and how the whole
experience can be improved, and share it with other students
via e-mail.
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