¡Buen viaje!: Level 2

Chapter 3: Telecomunicaciones

WebQuest

Telecomunicaciones

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Objective To talk about telephones and telephone cards To talk about past habitual and routine actions To describe people and events in the past Notes Have students read the Lectura opcional 1 on page 76 of the textbook before completing this activity. Due to the fact that these sites are graphically intensive in nature, some may take a few extra moments to load. Most of the sites contain listings of phone cards organized by theme in a frame on the left-hand side or the top of the screen. Students may need to click on a button entitled Colecciones or may need to scroll down the page in order to find these lists. Students should be encouraged to explore the links embedded in each site in order to complete the questions in the ¡A navegar! section of this activity. Remind students that they will need to use the imperfect tense as they complete the ¡A navegar! and Después de navegar sections of the worksheet.   Expansion After students have designed their telephone cards in the Después de navegar section of the worksheet, you may wish to display them and have students vote for the card most representative of the cultural and historical aspects of your city or state. As a follow-up activity, divide students into small groups and assign each group a Spanish-speaking country to research. This research could take the form of interviews with exchange students, letters to embassies, research on the Internet, and research in encyclopedias. Students can use their research to help them design a whole series of telephone cards that depict the key cultural and historical features of their assigned countries. These cards could be "packaged" in inventive ways and the "campaigns" could be revealed to the class via an oral speech at a mock press conference. The press conference can then be followed by a question-and-answer session with the audience. In order to reinforce some of the other key concepts from this chapter, have students role-play a telephone conversation in which two employees discuss ideas for telephone card campaigns for various cities, states, or countries.