Project Level 2 - Programa de Formación

Project Level 2

“A tour around the campus”

Objectives:

At the end of this project, students should be able to understand, describe and speak
about a place they love in the university.

Task Description (purpose, context, situation, audience):

Type of project: A guided tour

Purpose:  To describe and speak about a place students love in the university

Situation and Context:

Some foreign students are in the campus and they would like to know
interesting places in the university, level 2 students will be in charge of guiding
this group of foreign students this semester.
To do this, you are going to choose one interesting place for you
and investigate about its historical and anecdotal facts, what people can find there,
what they can do there, among other information.
You will design a brochure or poster with information about the place
and give it to the foreign students.
As well as you will invite them to visit the place and give them a tour.

Audience: Teachers and classmates (possibly foreign students)

Steps and processes:

Step 1: Opening

The teacher will Show different places through a virtual tour about the university campus.

Step 2: Set-up and guiding questions

The aim of these questions is to make the students get familiar with the places
of interest that we have at the university.
On the other hand, it is an opportunity for them to find other classmates
with common likes regarding the places they visit.
Once they agree on the places they prefer, they can form groups and
do some research to prepare the tour.

• What is your favorite place in the university?
• Why do you enjoy being there?
• What’s that place like?
• What is it made up of?
• Where is it?
• When was it built? Who founded it?
• What else can you talk about such a place? (an anecdote?, an experience?, a memory?)

Step 3: Exploration & Preparation

In groups of 3 people, the students choose a place from the university
they would like to speak about taking into account the steps 1 and 2.

After selecting the place and reading information about it,
they should design a brochure about the place and present it to the teacher
before they do the tour guiding.

The students will guide their partners around the place by telling them about the history,
what happens there, what events are held and so on.

As an alternative activity, students (tour guides) can design a poster
promoting the place they will show.

Resources:

Virtual Tour:

Examples of brochures

Rubric

Students' name:				Date:
%	The Student	poor	Needs improvement	fair	good	outstanding	total
20	Describes the chosen place	1-4	5-9	10-14	15-17	18-20
20	Shares some historical or anecdotal facts about the chosen place	1-4	5-9	10-14	15-17	18-20
20	Produces some structures worked in the course such as: (1) adjectives; (2) sentences in simple past and past progressive.	1-4	5-9	10-14	15-17	18-20
20	Uses linking words related to time (when, after, during, before) and time expression in past (yesterday, last, ago, since) to narrate short stories.	1-4	5-9	10-14	15-17	18-20
20	Composes a text for a brochure	1-4	5-9	10-14	15-17	18-20

Sources and Credits:

Designed by Jorge Gómez and Juan José Vélez
Adapted by the English instructors of Centro de Idiomas, UN, Medellín, 2016-2017

Adapted by Piedad Arias 2018 -1