Leisure Activities (Session 6 & 7)

1st f2f Class:

As a first step, the teacher explains the task based on the following question: imagine that you suddenly woke up in Barcelona/Shanghai on a non-working day. How could you spend all your free time in an interesting way? To answer this question, groups will have to create a comparative top-5 leisure activities itinerary for a 1-day trip in Barcelona/Shanghai. Barcelona students will write on Barcelona, whereas Shanghai students will write on Shanghai. Leisure activities will be selected within the following categories:

1) Visit to a Museum. This will be expected to take place as a first activity, because it is intellectually demanding.

2) Fun, typical activity . This will be an typical activity, like a bus-tour of the city, or something that tourists cannot help but doing while in Barcelona/Shanghai.

3) Lunch. Simply put: recharge after an active morning and get ready for an active afternoon.

4) Tour to a site. Something fancy but quiet: kids are still digesting! In Shanghai this could be, for example, a trip to the Tower. In Barcelona, this could be a walk to Montjuic.

5) Sport. Digestive process ended successfully! Now it’s time to work out and have fun!

Students are required to refer to the previous sessions on means of transport and foods, when thinking about how to move from one place to another and where to have lunch. Plus, a worksheet is handed out in class to help them record and map their ideas.

Finally, the teacher provides guidance while students start working in groups to review previous sessions' outcomes, share ideas, and browse the internet to find unexplored options for their itinerary.

For the online meeting, students will have to upload a top-5 itinerary (made with StoryMap) on OneDrive.

Online Meeting:

Students from the 2 locations present their itineraries via Skype. Then, students compare the 2 itineraries critically in order to provide their peers overseas with customized suggestions - Tips & Tricks, e.g. lunch is cheaper in China than in Barcelona, be careful and if you have money left do consider a souvenir shop nearby to buy stuff for your parents. Then, students start creating their comparative itinerary . The final outcome will be a page on their guide-website where they describe their itineraries in a comparative way, provide tips & tricks and put the link to their Storymaps. They are free to use text, images, or even create a poster for this webpage (e.g. by using Canva), but this is optional. They may complete the webpage after the online meeting and come to class prepared to present it. Students will copy the link to their webpage on a Padlet created by the teacher.

2nd f2f Class:

First, each group will provide feedback to a couple of assigned groups based on their respective webpages . feedback will be provided by commenting the Padlet. After that, feedback will be briefly discussed in class with the teacher acting as a moderator who eventually validates comments and gives her own advice. Two groups will be asked to volunteer and present their webpage as a starting point for the in-class discussion.

Post-class Tasks:

At home, before the following class period, students may add or change something in their itinerary based on the most insightful feedback they have received in class.

*For guiding questions and other details regarding the reflection diary, see Assessment page.