Where are we going?

 

Shared by Sara de la Higuera: 

1. TOPIC: 'Where are we going?'

Under this title, the students from 2nd Course Baccalaureate have to develop a project about the main aspects they have to consider to organise a trip whenever they want to. The last term will be the ideal time for this project and the groups will consist of three or four students (depending on the size of the class)

2. CONTENTS:

Production strategies
Planning: Planning what to say and how to say it, using diverse resources to facilitate communication and relevant mechanisms to give coherence and cohesion.
Execution: Presenting the message with clarity. Knowing how to structure a presentation of an organised trip and a holiday brochure created.
Communicative functions:
Presentation: Sequence connectors → first, secondly, all in all, etc.
Using different applications for the exposition of projects: PowerPoint, Prezi, PowToon, Genially, etc.
Syntactic and discourse structures:
Oral production of messages about holidays, and previously prepared presentations on the theme of holidays.
Identifying communicative purposes from textual and paratextual elements, as well as the structure of the texts in relation to brochures.
Extracting detailed information about cultural differences to be used as the basis for further research.
Communicative functions: Learning to use educational information technology programmes to read and write simple messages.

Planning the writing of a brochure, using mechanisms of organisation, articulation and cohesion. Structure and sequence connectors.

Producing a brochure with correct use of clauses studied so far and bearing in mind the possible attitudes of the reader. Writing about a trip or cultural experience.

Syntactic and discourse structures:
GRAMMAR: Revision of all grammatical forms learnt in the academic year.
Expressing opinions, agreement and disagreement, giving and asking for information.
LEXIS: Vocabulary related to journeys and holidays (CALP)

3. DRIVING QUESTIONS
How is the political situation in this country?
Is it a safe place?
Do we need to apply for a visa?

4. COOPERATIVE TECHNIQUES

As they have to make a deeply research and organise many things, it will be interesting that they divide the job into different points to consider (Think-Pair-Share) since they have to look for things such as: booking flights and hotel, meals, budget, Covid measures in the country selected, etc.
A portfolio of their work and how they organise themselves with checklists or a K W L chart.
At the end of the presentation of all projects, the whole class can vote on the best or the trip they are more attracted to go; using a rubric or a checklist with the points accomplished.
In addition,this project gives us the opportunity to create a webpage with all the trips designed and go further into a community project.