Project: Tourist attractions 2014

Here you have the document with the guidelines you need to do the project, which is compulsory.
Good luck! =)

PROJECT

A TOURIST ATTRACTIONS QUESTIONNAIRE

Assignment: This project should be carried out at one of the top tourist attractions we can find in Madrid. You must interview a person and ask for permission to video-record the interview. If not, at least ask for permission to record the sound. I recommend you to do it in pairs but each student has to carry out an interview. Try to interact with the interviewee. Some interviews will be published on the blog www.agr8tourblog4u.blogspot.com for educational purposes.

Aim: To use English as a tool for communication and to get to know the people who visit our country (nationalities, reasons for travelling, accommodation chosen, opinion about tourist attractions…)

Assessment criteria: It will be graded from 1 to 10 and will be part of the mark of the oral skills.

Deadline: By Friday 7th February 2014. You will have to send me or hand in the files (with an extension I can see and listen to) and the transcription of the dialogues. The files have to be named as follows: 

• yourname_surname_tourist_attractions_age_13_14 (Students of Travel Agencies and Events Management). 
• yourname_surname_tourist_attractions_gatd_13_14 (Students of Tourist Accommodation Management).

This assignment won't be corrected if it doesn't follow these rules.

You can begin like this:

Good morning/afternoon/evening. I’m a student of Tourist Accommodation Management / Travel Agencies and Events Management / Tourism at Hotel Escuela High School, Madrid. We are doing a project about tourist attractions in Madrid. Would you mind answering a few questions? If you don’t mind, we would like to record the interview as a class practice. Thanks a lot.

POSSIBLE QUESTIONS:

1. Where are you from?
2. How long are you staying in Madrid?
3. What is the purpose of your visit?
4. Where are you staying (type of accommodation)?
5. What monuments or places have you visited so far?
6. Which one did you like most? Why?
7. Could you give us a short description that summarises its main features?
8. Did it fulfil your expectations? If not, why not?
9. From you point of view, which are the top five visitor attractions in Madrid?

Student recommends one or two more places to visit (one of them has to be a ‘natural attraction’).

         Thanks for your help. Enjoy your stay.

Tourist attractions: Vocabulary

Click here to study and review vocabulary related to tourist attractions.

There are many different ways to do it. Test yourself! I'm sure you'll enjoy it.

MIND MAPS: VOCABULARY REVISION

Here you can see some of the mind maps created by some students. I hope you find them useful to revise vocabulary.
Thank you, students!

(By Elena)

(By Raquel) 

(By Vanessa) 

(By Anabel)

(By José)

PROJECT: TOURIST ATTRACTIONS INTERVIEW 2013 - AUDIOS AND VIDEOS

I hope you like watching and listening to some of your classmates carrying out their interviews about tourist attractions in Madrid.

2º Travel Agencies and Events Management
Laura M.:



Dámaris:





Lorena:


2nd Tourist Accommodation Management

Paloma:

 

Laura:

Parque de Europa 2013

We were looking forward to going sightseeing and in the end we decided to visit quite a lot of cities in Europe.
We (Travel Agencies and Events Management) invited our classmates of 2nd year of Tourist Accommodation Management (Afternoon) and 1st year of Travel Agencies and Events Management.
We (both groups of second year) had to speak about the countries and monuments whose replicas can be found in Parque de Europa. We were twitting and taking some photos. Though we were a bit nervous, we enjoyed it a lot. Have a look!

PROJECT: TOURIST DESTINATIONS 2013

Here you have the document with the guidelines you need to do the project.
Good luck! =)

PROJECT

A TOURIST ATTRACTIONS QUESTIONNAIRE

Assignment: This project should be carried out at one of the top tourist attractions we can find in Madrid. You must interview two people and ask for permission to video-record the interview. If not, at least ask permission to record the sound. Do it in pairs. Some interviews will be published on the blog www.agr8tourblog4u.blogspot.com for educational purposes.

Aim: To use English as a tool for communication and to get to know the people who visit our country (nationalities, reasons for travelling, accommodation chosen, opinion about tourist attractions…)

Assessment criteria: It will be graded from 1 to 10 and will be part of the mark of the oral skills.

Deadline: By Friday 1st February 2013. You will have to send me or hand in the files (with an extension I can see and listen to) and the transcription of the dialogues. The files will be named as yoursurname_initialofyourname_tourist_attractions1 and your surname_initialofyoursurname_tourist_attractios2 (no capital letters); I won't correct any files that don't follow this.

You can begin like this:

Good morning/afternoon/evening. I’m a student of Tourist Accommodation Management / Travel Agencies and Events Management / Tourism at Hotel Escuela High School, Madrid. We are doing a project about tourist attractions in Madrid. Would you mind answering a few questions? If you don’t mind, we would like to record the interview as a class practice. Thanks a lot.

POSSIBLE QUESTIONS:

1. Where are you from?
2. How long are you staying in Madrid?
3. What is the purpose of your visit?
4. Where are you staying (type of accommodation)?
5. What monuments or places have you visited so far?
6. Which one did you like most? Why?
7. Could you give us a short description that summarises its main features?
8. Did it fulfil your expectations? If not, why not?
9. From you point of view, which are the top five visitor attractions in Madrid?

Student recommends one or two more places to visit (one of them has to be a ‘natural attraction’).

         Thanks for your help. Enjoy your stay.

SYDNEY HARBOUR BRIDGE - LISTENING

Listen to the following recorded information on the Sydney Harbour Bridge and write down some details you can understand, such as the nickname it receives, when it was built, how long it took to be built, number of people employed, measures, number of railway lines and road lanes, number of vehicles per day, museum opening hours and any other piece of information that can be relevant for the correct understanding.

(From HARDING, K. (1999) Going International, OUP, U. 9, list 2, p. 128)

PROJECT: TOURIST ATTRACTIONS INTERVIEW 2012 - AUDIOS AND VIDEOS

Here you can see and listen to some of your classmates (Laura, Maribel & Yolanda) when carrying out the interviews about tourist attractions in Madrid. Thanks again for your contribution.



Here there are two interviews carried out by José. This one is with a woman from Barcelona.




And here is the second interview, this time with a woman from Argentina.




And this is Adrián interviewing an American girl in Alcalá de Henares.

PARQUE DE EUROPA

Sunny but a bit cold when visiting London!


TTAAEM (30-1-12)




TTAAEM (30-1-12)









TAM (31-1-12)



TAM (31-1-12)

PROJECT: TOURIST ATTRACTIONS INTERVIEW 2012

Here you have the document with the guidelines you need to do the project.
Good luck! =)

PROJECT

A TOURIST ATTRACTIONS QUESTIONNAIRE

Assignment: This project should be carried out at one of the top tourist attractions we can find in Madrid. You must interview two people and ask for permission to video-record the interview. If not, at least ask permission to record the sound. Do it in pairs. Some interviews will be published on the blog www.agr8tourblog4u.blogspot.com for educational purposes.

Aim: To use English as a tool for communication and to get to know the people who visit our country (nationalities, reasons for travelling, accommodation chosen, opinion about tourist attractions…)

Assessment criteria: It will be graded from 1 to 10 and will be part of the mark of the oral skills.

Deadline: By Friday 3rd February 2012. You will have to send me or hand in the files (with an extension I can see and listen to) and the transcription of the dialogues.

You can begin like this:

Good morning/afternoon/evening. I’m a student of Tourist Accommodation Management / Travel Agencies and Events Management / Tourism at Hotel Escuela High School, Madrid. We are doing a project about tourist attractions in Madrid. Would you mind answering a few questions? If you don’t mind, we would like to record the interview as a class practice. Thanks a lot.

POSSIBLE QUESTIONS:

1. Where are you from?
2. How long are you staying in Madrid?
3. What is the purpose of your visit?
4. Where are you staying (type of accommodation)?
5. What monuments or places have you visited so far?
6. Which one did you like most? Why?
7. Could you give us a short description that summarises its main features?
8. Did it fulfil your expectations? If not, why not?
9. From you point of view, which are the top five visitor attractions in Madrid?

Student recommends one or two more places to visit (one of them has to be a ‘natural attraction’).

         Thanks for your help. Enjoy your stay.

INTERVIEW. TOURIST ATTRACTIONS. MADRID

Would you like to see another of your classmates carrying out an interview about tourist attractions in Madrid? Then watch this video.

INTERVIEW. TOURIST ATTRACTIONS. MADRID

Would you like to see and listen to some of your classmates doing the interviews in Mayor Square? If so, watch the following video.
Thank you, students! It is gr8!

This is the unabridged version.

PROJECT: TOURIST ATTRACTIONS QUESTIONNAIRE

Here you have the document with the guidelines you need to do the project.
Good luck! =)

PROJECT

A TOURIST ATTRACTIONS QUESTIONNAIRE

Assignment: This project should be carried out at one of the top tourist attractions we can find in Madrid. You must interview two people and ask for permission to video-record the interview. If not, at least ask permission to record the sound. Do it in pairs. Some interviews will be published on the blog www.agr8tourblog4u.blogspot.com for educational purposes.

Aim: To use English as a tool for communication and to get to know the people who visit our country (nationalities, reasons for travelling, accommodation chosen, opinion about tourist attractions…)

Assessment criteria: It will be graded from 1 to 10 and will be part of the mark of the oral skills.

Deadline: By Friday 4th February 2011.

You can begin like this:

Good morning/afternoon/evening. I’m a student of Hotel Management / Tourism at Hotel Escuela High School, Madrid. We are doing a project about tourist attractions in Madrid. Would you mind answering a few questions? If you don’t mind, we would like to record the interview as a class practice. Thanks a lot.

POSSIBLE QUESTIONS:

1. Where are you from?
2. How long are you staying in Madrid?
3. What is the purpose of your visit?
4. Where are you staying (type of accommodation)?
5. What monuments or places have you visited so far?
6. Which one did you like most? Why?
7. Could you give us a short description that summarises its main features?
8. Did it fulfil your expectations? If not, why not?
9. From you point of view, which are the top five visitor attractions in Madrid?

Student recommends one or two more places to visit (one of them has to be a ‘natural attraction’).

         Thanks for your help. Enjoy your stay.

PASSIVE VOICE IN CONTEXT

In order to practise the passive voice, I recommend you to do two exercises. The first one, about The Statue of Liberty, can be found on http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/passive/exercises?text01.
If you want to do the sencond one, about Portal Dolmens, go to http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/passive/exercises?text02.
What about practising a bit more? Visit http://www.agendaweb.org/ and do some exercises related to the passive voice.
You can also see some more explanations and execises here.

TYPES OF HOLIDAY, DESTINATIONS, FESTIVALS, ETC.

If you really want to become a travel agent or work in the field of tourism, have a look at the following page. There you will find different types of holiday, different destinations, festivals and events, brochures and a lof of information about different places around the world.
You can travel around the world with only one click of the mouse.
Cox & Kings is the longest established travel company in the world.
http://www.coxandkings.co.uk/home.aspx

TRAVEL DESTINATIONS WORLD MAP

Here you can see a world map with the most popular travel destinations. Try to find out some information about some of them, e.g. country in which they are situated, places to see, things to do, what to eat...
Which of these places would you like to visit? Why? How would you get there? Where would you stay? How long would you spend there?
World Map Showing Travel Destinations

WEB QUEST: GETTING TO KNOW POPULAR TOURIST DESTINATIONS

As you can see, this activity will take you to different parts of the world. Answer all the questions and you will know a little bit about some interesting places to visit.
Webquest Popular Destinations

TOURIST INFORMATION - COUNTRIES AND CITIES. TOURIST ATTRACTIONS

For this topic, I recommend you a very good website www.aviewoncities.com. Please, have a look, it's gr8! There are more than 30 cities, you can see their tourist attractions and you can also test yourself because there also some quizzes about maps and attractions.

If you want to practise countries and nationalities, you can also visit http://www.agendaweb.org/ and in 'vocabulary' you will see 'countries-nationalities'. Click on and you can do plenty of exercises.