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= The Essential Guide for Teenagers visiting Romania  = = ** Project task: ** =

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**1 To create a travel guide for teenage students visiting Romania in the form of PowerPoint presentation giving essential information about different aspects of Romania and Romanian culture, lifestyle, annual events that the young generation think essential for teenage visitors, before travelling to Romania.** ======

**2 To read, listen to and watch the guide produced by the other participating schools and exchange feedback on the blogs or email as a follow-up activity.**
= Brief Description:  =

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**2 groups of 4 secondary school students aged 17 and 18 years old will tackle two aspects of Romania and Romanian culture, research, organize ideas, design PowerPoint slides, and prepare a 5-minute presentation. To do this they will research information on the Internet, encyclopedias, maps, and any other reference materials available in the school.** ======

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**Each student will take part in the presentation. Also, they make at least one comment to each of the guides sent by other countries' students and send it to authors.** ======

= Objectives: =

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**(1)Students will be able to analyze what is essential information for teenage travelers, create informative products about their countries in the forms of PPTs, text, audio, pictures, blogs, which wil be judged by** **their peers in different countries.** ======

**Degree: As measured by rubrics created by their teachers and reflective writing from their foreign friends.**
= Process:  = 1 Students brainstorm and discuss what aspects of Romania are essential to find out about for teenagers in other countries. **2 They select 4 topics. Each group chooses 2 topics.** **3 In each group, students brainstorm and discuss possible items included in PPTslides and scripts.** **4 In each group, students divide the workoad and decide on their roles within the group, while they cooperate to produce one presentation.** **5 In each group, students research, analyze and synthesize the materials.** **6 In each group, student design slides, write narration, using all the resources available in school and on the Internet.** **7 With the rubrics presented by the teacher, in each group students practise narration and rehearse 5- minute presentations.** **8 Students make presentations in front of the class.** **9 Peer assessment with the rubrics.** **10 Students upload the presentation on wiki.**

=Resources= PPt - pictures - www.visitromania.wikispaces.com