CALL Lesson Plan: Travel Guide of Central America

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CALL Lesson PlanTravel Guide of Central America

• Susan Hansen
• 3/2/05
• EFL 537-CALL
• Lyra Riabov
• SNHU

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Class Profile

• Intermediate High School Students Ages 15-18
• Variety of language and cultural backgrounds
• 12 students
• 60 minute class
• for 3 days

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Class Profile (cont.)

• The goals of this ESL Social Studies course is to
  learn World Geography and History.
  
• Recently, we have been studying Central America.
• Previous computer work includes researching
  famous explorers and watching/listening to video
  clips about Central America and different time
  periods.

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• Materials
• Computers with Internet access, MS Word,
  E-mail
  
• Requirements
• Example page

• Major skills used
• Speaking
• Listening
• Reading
• Writing

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Objectives

• Students will be able work cooperatively to
  create a guidebook to inform others about
  different places in Central America.
  
• Students will use verb tenses correctly including
  present, imperatives, and can could.
  
• Use the computer effectively to research a place
  of interest and design the guidebook.

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Pre-Computer Activities

• Discuss what weve learned about Central
  America.
  
• Brainstorm places that students might be
  interested in visiting based on what we learned.
  
• State the objectives for the lesson.

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Presentation

• Brainstorm ways to find out travel information
  about a particular place.
  
• Show and discuss different guidebooks that are on
  the market today.

Lonely Planet
Frommers
Fodors
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Presentation (cont.)

• Show a sample project
• Talk about the requirements of the project.
  Students will check their e-mail and see the
  requirement sheet I sent them.
  
• As a class, use one of the websites to create a
  travel guide for another place in Costa Rica.
  
• www.frommers.com
• www.fodors.com
• www.lonelyplanet.com

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Practice

• Students will select a partner, decide roles, and
  choose a country. One group per remaining
  countries
  
• Honduras, El Salvador, Belize, Guatemala,
  Nicaragua, Panama
  
• Students have the
• remainder of the class
• period to research and
• gather information.

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Practice (Day 2)

• Students have Day 2 to continue their research,
  gather information, and create their travel
  guide.
  
• By the end of Day 2 they must have a rough draft
  of their text for the project.
  
• E-mail another group their text for proofreading
  for homework.
  

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Practice (Day 3)

• Groups will get together and discuss the
  corrections they made during the peer revising
  that was completed for homework.
  
• Make revisions and complete final details of the
  project.
  
• E-mail their final project to the teacher.

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Follow-Up

• The teacher will compile the students work
  together into a Central America Travel Guide.
  
• She will e-mail the students the entire guide to
  use for their homework assignment
  
• Students will receive a budget of 300 for a
  four-day stay in any of the countries. Their
  flight is already paid. They need to figure out
  where they will stay, where they will eat, and
  what will they do.

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Potential Problems

• Students may struggle with narrowing down their
  place choices since there are so many options for
  each country.
  
• They might have trouble managing the allotted
  time for the project.
  
• If there is a problem with the Internet
  connection we can go to the library and research
  the different countries.
  

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Evaluation

• Students will be evaluated based on the
  following
  
• Use of time
• Cooperative learning
• Peer proofreading
• Final product based on class objectives