Senora Hernandez

Ms. Hernandez

Last Updated: April 29, 2004

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Introduction

Pack your bags and get ready to travel and eat! We are going to visually travel to South America, Cental America, the Caribbean and Spain in order to find some great food and some interesting sites to see! Many of us do not speak two languages, much less know much about the cultures of other countries. Learning about them maybe very useful one day.

Task

Here is the catch to this fun and exciting assignment. You and a partner only have $100 dollars for the day. With that limited amount of money and time, you will have to purchase three meals, desayuno, almuerzo, y la cena. In addition, you will see the sites of your appropriate city or country.

Remember that you must exhange the $100 dollars to the currency rate of your country.

Process

Choose a partner with whom you would like to take a trip.
Each pair will choose a different Spanish speaking country. In that country, you must choose a specific city or town to travel to for the day.
Each team will have to change American dollars using the currency conversion rate of that specific country. The website for the currency conversion is located at the bottom of the page. Here you will be able to convert the amount spent on each meal.
Each team is traveling in their specific country for the day, so you must do your homework before hand. For example, make an itinerary, so you do not waste your time wandering around.
Next, you will need to find three different restaurants to eat all three meals. Remember that these are foods that you would actually like to eat!
In between the three meals, you are going to do some sightseeing of your city or town before your next meal. You will have to get pictures of at least 4-5 sites and try to convince the class in Spanish why we should visit your country.
After your big day traveling, you will have to present your excursion. Along with your oral presentation, you will need to have a posterboard which will have the following: the 4-5 labeled pictures of your sites. Use the worksheet to record your restaurants' names and addresses, meals, and prices. Your oral presentation will consist of what you did while sightseeing as well as a description of the foods eaten during your day.
The last day you will use the evaluation sheet to rank all the presentations. Afterwards, as a class we will tally up the results to find the top 5 places to visit.