Masaryk university, brno faculty of education

 
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Teach students to give and accept feedback from their colleagues
 
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Support students’ creativity
 
Characteristics of the activity 
Students design a five-day itinerary of a tour in a popular destination located in the USA, 
followed by presenting it in front of the class. 
 
Preparation time: No time for preparation needed 

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Realisation time: 30 minutes 
Materials 
As the class is divided into two groups, two notebooks with working sound system are needed 
for smooth progress of the activity. It is recommended that the students bring dictionaries to 
look up vocabulary. 
Source 
Designed (Martin Štěrba) 
Motivation 
To make division of students more interesting, two songs will be used to introduce the core of 
the lesson -
Somewhere over the Rainbow
(Mountain Apple Company, 2010) and 
Surfing‘ USA
(Douglas Roth, 2011). 
Students listen to samples of the songs and after that they decided which song they prefer. In 
the meanwhile, teacher prepares two desks with the state flags of California and Hawaii, 
including pictures representing various aspects of life in these two states. 
It might be a good idea to ask some lead-in questions such as: 
Do you know anything interesting about California and Hawaii? 
Would you like to see any of these coutries? Why? 
How can you get there? 
Do you know any famous people connected to these countries? 
Procedure 
After students are divided into two groups, the teacher announces that they they have become 
travel agents and are supposed to design a five-day itinerary for a tour in the country the have 
chosen. They need to agree on accomodation, type of board, activities, optional trips, price of 
the holiday, transport etc. The activity has been created to resemble work at the travel agency, 
where specificic language knowledge is required for the job.
Students are also supposed to work with computer during their work and create a simple power 
point presentation of their holiday which they will present to the second group. After the 

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presentation, the second group evaluates them in terms of what they liked or disliked about it, 
what they would change and whether they would go on such a holiday.