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Imagine how excited your students will be when you tell them they are going to “move” - into their own apartments in a world city...and not for a two-week trip, but for the whole course! Give your students their own individual “reality shows” - and they can’t get voted off!
This book sets up a “virtual residence” adventure for your students “on location” in Paris, Berlin, Rome, Mexico City, Tokyo, Moscow, Lisbon, or any other city. SIMULATING a “living” experience there provides countless authentic everyday culture contexts for your students to apply everything you teach them...even grammar.
Watch as your students they talk all over the city and: | |||
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| do errands | take lessons | make plans | visit museums |
| join clubs | get mail | get part-time jobs | shop |
| go to pet stores | encounter challenges | solve mysteries | re-enact city scenes and events |
| read local headlines | take a gondola ride | meet neighbors | ride the subway |
| make weekend plans | make appointments | be “Honorary Citizens” | design invitations |
| pick paint for rooms | get a pet | learn local products | soak up culture |
...and have unlimited more experiences doing everything people would do if they actually lived in the city. | |||
The rationale for a course based on “virtual residence.” A list of the materials and classroom cues. Text considerations, time frame (semester or a year,) cities, and 4-year plans. You can do this even if you haven’t lived in the city yourself. Steps for setting up the “virtual residence.” A list of many strategies that are used (all skills). “Seeing” grammar all over the city and applying grammar to conversations. Yellow Pages and start-up links geared to the target language public for some major cities. The “virtual residence” students “scrapbook” (notebook) (handouts, pictures, staged photos, notes, Internet documents, certificates, floor plans, etc.)
Language crash course learning some basic practical language to start like ordering at a cafe.
The Flight
Presenting the layout of the city on maps. (Each students has his or her own map.) Selecting the address, “moving in,” decorating, and meeting the neighbors.
Included are 125 “Daily Connections” - ways to make references to the city each day in your lessons to perpetuate the adventure. They range from short and simple to entire-period extravagant simulations.
There are also tons more activities to get you started and to make the city come alive in your classroom!
