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=The Essential Guide for Teenagers visiting Japan= =**Final task:**=

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1 To create a travel guide for teenager students visiting Japan in the form of PowerPoint presentation with their scripts giving essential informtion about different aspects of Japan and Japanese culture, lifestyles, annual events that the young generation think essential for teenage visitors, before travelling to Japan. This material can be a part our school's culture exchange programs. (For example, we show the slides to foreign visitors to our school.)======

2 To read, listen to and watch the guide produced by the other participating schoolo and exchange feedback on the blos or email as a follw-up activity.
=Brief Descritption:=

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8 groups of 5 secondary school students aged 17 and 18 years old will pick up one aspect of Japan and Japanese culture, research, organize ideas, make PowerPoint slides, create the narration, and make 8-minute presentation. To do this they will find info. on the Internet, encyclopedias, maps,and any other reference materials available in the school.======

Each student will take part in reading the narration. 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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Behaviour: (1)Students will be able to analyze what is essential information for teenage travelers, create informative products about their countries in the forms of PPs, text, audio, pictures, blogs, which wil be judged by ======

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 Japan can appeal to teenagers in other coutries.

10 Students upload the presenation on wiki.
=Resources:= (1) Introduction of Project work (2) PowerPoint rubrics



=Product:= 1 Power Point Presention:My students created this wiki page. Please go totheir Japanese Guide page. http://norikon.wikispaces.com/