L5 Activity 4.5

16.12.16

Intercultural Competence - Exchange

You have organised an exchange with a school in another country. During their visit, the
students attend each other's school and stay at each other's homes.
1- Describe the general terms of the arrengement, i.e.: country, age and academic level
of students, length of the stay, who is visiting who this time, and any other detail you may
consider relevant.
2- How would you prepare your students prior to the visit, bearing in mind the above set of
conditions.

Our class is going to do and exchange with a secondary school from Bournemouth. They have been in contact during the first semester by e-mail and Skype conferences, so now it is time to meet each other. All of them are between 16 and 17 years old and have a good academic level, that is the main reason why this exchange has been thought. Students from Bournemouth are studying Spanish as a second language and they have acquired a quite level. On the other hand, our students have also a good level in English and since they have known the possibility of meeting their new friends they have worked more in order to improve their level.

The exchange will take place during the first two weeks of April and students from Bournemouth are going to visit Valencia in the last two weeks of May. Two months full of new experiences!

During the previous months we are going to be preparing our travel. First of all, we are going to study a bit more about Bournemouth, its geography, its history, its main traditions and festivities, its most important places to visit… The objective is that students know the place as much as possible in order to make the visit more productive.

After that, we will tell them with which person they are going to live. After that, they will do some activities in order to meet the different people who live at the house, the rules they have to be into account…

Finally, they will be given a series of instructions for preparing their luggage and their trip in general.

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