Travel Blog project
Dear students!
You are about to make a trip to an English speaking country. Your task is to find facts about everyday life, interests and activities, traditions, cultural events, living conditions and values. You will compare these facts with your own experiences from your life and living in Sweden.
How are you going to do this?
Every week you are going to publicise your blog about a certain topic. The deadline is every Friday. Before you publicise your blog you should have read the response from your peers on your last blog and made comments if necessary (except from the first blog).
You have access to the Internet and that is your main source. You can, if you want to, use the Library. You are allowed to work at home and maybe you have to in order to be ready to publicise your blog at the end of the week. There are a number of topics that you have to work with….
In your blog you are going to describe five different topics. Below you will find some more information about the blog entries you are going to write. You can put them in any order you like.
· Holiday. While you are on your trip you have the opportunity to take part in a typical national holiday. Describe how this holiday is celebrated. What’s the historical background? Special food? Any special activities?
· Family Life. You have the chance to visit an ordinary family in the country. What is it like to live in your country? Work? School? Living? Lifestyle? Describe the family you meet.
· Cultural Event. You have some extra time to spend on an exciting cultural event. For instance it could be a sport event or a concert with a national artist. Where does this event take place? What is it like?
· Being a Tourist. Of course you use some of your time on your vacation to do some sightseeing. Choose one of the attractions you visit and blog about this sight. Describe your experience and also give facts about the attraction. Why is this an interesting place to visit?
· Free topic. Write about something that you are interested in. It could be a special place/city, national music, national literature, an important person… It’s your choice!
You are going to create your own Blog account on blogg.se. Your account will be available to me so you have to send me your account. Everyone will have three peers who will give response/comments as a help to improve your writing skills. If you want response from me you can send your blog entry to me before you publicise it.
We will keep you up to date here……
