Let’s take a trip
CLASS PROJECT 1:
Exploring Cultures in The
Classroom
English 1
Pontificia Universidad Javeriana – Cali
William Jurado
Objectives:
The project helps students to develop the following life competencies,
such as:
COLLABORATION
Being aware of how the group can work together to achieve the task.
CREATIVE THINKING
Creating new content from own ideas or other resources.
COMMUNICATION
Presenting points clearly and persuasively
THE PROJECT
In groups of 3, students research a country.
You choose a country and then you need to make
plans as if you were going to visit this country. You
need to find what cultural aspects are different in this
country you choose. (food, clothing, climate
conditions, language, customs, religion, etc.) Now, you
need to create a presentation about planning a trip to
visit that place.
List of
countries
Groups Country
Useful questions:
Read the project description and answer these questions with your partners. You
could use graphic organizers to help them record the information you find.
Research the following information about that country given:
1. How much does the ticket cost?
2. Where is it located? What continent is the country in? What is the capital city?
3. You could look for physical geographical features such as mountains and rivers.
4. Does the country border any seas?
5. What are the neighboring countries?
New useful questions:
Read Other important Key Facts:
1. Research the country’s flag.
2. What does the flag tell us about the country?
3. What is the population?
4. What kind of climate does the country have?
Other useful questions:
Also, find out information about the following:
What places are there to visit?
How can you get there?
When is the best time to visit?
What can visitors do there?
Choose a celebration or festival. Is it only a regional or international
celebration? Explain
Mention 2 activities related to the celebration.
Mention 2 reasons why they celebrate them.
What foods are eaten during this celebration?
Other useful questions:
•Include attractive images that make people want to visit in the country.
•Suggestions for activities to do there
•Try and make your descriptions interesting.
Cultural Differences
Why Cultural Differences Matter?
If you don’t pay attention to cultural differences, then you can
easily be embarrassed about doing something that is not
appropriate in the country. Find something that can be interesting
to share with the class that only people in this country do
Rubrics to evaluate the presentation
EXCELLENT: 5 GOOD: 4 FAIR: 3 NEEDS IMPROVEMENT
OR POOR: 2
Visual aids show great Visual aids show considerable Visual aids show some The student uses no visuals
VISUAL AIDS work/creativity and make the work/creativity and make the presentation work/creativity and make the OR the visual
(DESIGN presentation more interesting more interesting. 1-2 typos. presentation better. More than 3 Aids chosen detract from
AND and appealing. No typos. Only typos. Some text. the presentation.
CREATIVITY) titles, subtitles and images
Information is solid. All the Information is solid, but one question from Information required is partially Just some facts are
INFORMATION answers to the questions already the requirements is not mentioned in the presented. More than 3 answers mentioned about the
worked in the previous parts are presentation to the questions are not country.
mentioned in the presentation. mentioned in the presentation.
Make themselves understood, Can make themselves understood in very Manages very short, isolated Pretty hard to follow
FLUENCY even though pauses, false starts short sentences, though pauses, false start sentences with much pausing to speech.
and reformulation are evident. in a sentence, though pauses, false starts search for expressions.
reformulation are very evident. (Speaks with
long pauses) (Pauses lengthily before most
words)
Preparation is evident. Shows Student appears and seems pretty Students appears, and somewhat Student appears and does
PREPAREDNESS / hard work. No questions asked prepared but might have needed more prepared but it is clear that not seem at all prepared to
about the project rehearsals. 2 to 3 pronunciation issues. rehearsal was lacking. present.
PRONUNCIATION
More than 4 pronunciation issues. More than 9 pronunciation
issues.
Grammar is Grammar presents one issue from time to Grammar presents some issues Student reads all the time
USE OF impeccable, vocabulary time, vocabulary is rich. from time to time, vocabulary is and does not keep eye
LANGUAGE: is rich. basic. contact.
GRAMMAR Student shows enthusiasm, keeps eye
& Student generates contact most of the time and sometimes The student reads half of the
interest in the audience reads from the notes. time and repeatedly reads from
VOCABULARY and keeps eye contact the notes.
doing their
presentation without
reading.
SELF-EVALUATION
With the members of your group, answer these questions together.
COLLABORATION
A. How well did we 1 2 3 4 5
work together to
create our project?
CREATIVE THINKING
B. How creative was 1 2 3 4 5
our project, including
both images and
content?
COMMUNICATION
C. How well did our 1 2 3 4 5
presentation make
people want to go on
a trip to our country?
Answer these questions about yourself.
1 = not very much, 5 = a lot
D. How well did I 1 2 3 4 5
contribute to the
project?
E. How much English 1 2 3 4 5
did I use to do the
project?
